The best No 1 records: Tony di Bart – The Real Thing

1994: It was apparently the year of Britpop, but try telling that to this bathroom salesman from Buckinghamshire …1994 is enshrined in history as the birth of Britpop, but the charts tell a slightly different story. What was big was commercial house music: it was the year of D:Ream's Things Can Only Get Better, Corona's The Rhythm Of The Night, Doop and Reel 2 Real featuring The Mad Stuntman. You can see why it has been written out of history. Reviled at the time as handbag house, it briefly m...

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