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- ↑ "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 31.
- ↑ BBC – Proms – 26 August 2010
