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ornotna

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Wed May 6, 2020, 10:40 PM May 2020

RIP Millie Small

Last edited Thu May 7, 2020, 12:38 PM - Edit history (1)



The star was most famous for her hit single My Boy Lollipop, which reached number two in both the US and the UK in 1964.

It remains one of the biggest-selling ska songs of all time, with more than seven million sales.


"It is the ska equivalent of Elvis' Heartbreak Hotel or the Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen - the disc that popularised a sound previously considered to be on the margins of mainstream consciousness," wrote music historian Laurence Cane-Honeysett in Record Collector magazine.


https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52557332

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RIP Millie Small (Original Post) ornotna May 2020 OP
RIP Millie Small shanti May 2020 #1
RIP, she was a huge talent Celerity May 2020 #2
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