The best No 1 records: Cornershop – Brimful of Asha

1998: Fatboy Slim's big-beat makeover unexpectedly took the indie underdogs and their puzzling lyrics to No 1Cornershop's ode to filmic escapism, Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle and 7in singles has to be one of the most unexpected chart-toppers in history – a testament to pop music's strange currencies. This was a band, after all, that began life in protest at the apolitical nature of British music, that once wore their musical ineptitude on their sleeves and whose name inverted a whitey...

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