Has our musical taste improved

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Some�say that today's music hasn't got the originality or�genuine class of the output of the Sixties, but let's face it, there were some serious disasters in the Sixties too.

Hindsight is a great thing, with hindsight would Britons really have flocked to buy Englebert Humperdink and Little Jimmy Osmond

When it comes to music, sentimentality still seems to have�a stronger�appeal to the masses than great music.

Herewith a list of record breaking, err, records that shows the highs and lows of the music market and highlights�three clear categories - Respectable, Awful, and the downright Mushy.

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Respectable

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Q. What is the UK's top-selling album of all time
A. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Q. Who was the oldest person to have a top ten in the UK
A. Frank Sinatra - at 70 years and four months with New York, New York who was a month older than Andy Williams, who re-released Music to Watch Girls By

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Q. The oldest woman to� have a top ten in the UK
A. Cher with Believe as an astonishingly youthful 52-year-old

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Q. The youngest woman to have a No 1 in the UK
A. Helen Shapiro who sang Walking Back to Happiness in 1961

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Q. The woman with most top ten hits in the UK
A. Madonna

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Q. First British Group to have a No 1 in the US
A. The Tornados, with Telstar

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Q. Biggest selling Classical Album in the UK
A. The Essential Pavarotti (which is at least an improvement on America's first choice - The Three Tenors

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Q. Biggest Album seller in the UK
A. Michael Jackson (individual)

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Q. Biggest selling female group in the UK
A. The Supremes

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Q. Biggest-selling Rap single
A. Puff Daddy's I'll Be Missing You

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Q. Biggest selling Heavy Metal album in the UK
A.� Bat Out Of Hell by Meatloaf

Awful

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Q. Which single stayed longest in the charts
A. Please Release Me by Englebert Humperdink

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Q. Who was the youngest singer to have a UK No 1
A. Little Jimmy Osmond with Long Haired Lover from Liverpool

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Q. Which country has had most Eurovision Song Contest victories
A. Ireland, with 7

The Mushy

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Q. Top selling UK single of all time
A. Elton John's re-write of Candle in the Wind for Princess Diana

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Q. Top selling World single of all time
A.� Guess What � Elton John's re-write of Candle in the Wind for Princess Diana

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Q. What is the biggest selling instrumental single in the UK
A. Layla � Chi Mai Nope it was Acker Bilk's Stranger on the Shore

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Q. The oldest person to have a No 1 in the UK
A. Sixty-seven year old Louis Armstrong with What a Wonderful World

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Q. The Uk's No 1 Jazz album
A. We Are In Love by Harry Connick Junior

And Finally

Q. Top-selling single UK single
A. Of� the Sixties: She Loves You
��� Of the Seventies: Mull of Kintyre
��� Of the Eighties: Do They Know It's Christmas
��� Of the Nineties: Candle In The Wind

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