Who'd have thought the Manics' big chart breakthrough would be soft-rock cover of a '70s sitcom theme?
Released
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33 years on, it remains one of the band’s most unexpected milestones. Read The Guardian’s piece on the single here:
theguardian.com/music/musicb…