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Tuesday 25th March 2008, 6:02AM GMT.

Not all comebacks end in disappointment or apathy, as Tony Christie showed in 2005. A star in the 1970s, he did not trouble the charts again until a Jarvis Cocker song took him to the top 10 in 1999. Then he was back at the top in 2005, after pairing up with Peter Kay for a Comic Relief re-release of Is This The Way To Amarillo, which became the biggest-selling single of the year.
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