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Music

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Simon Hill pays the price for backing Liverpool as Parky dishes out tomato punishment

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Music

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Gary Oberholzer
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Simon Hill takes on Billy Joel’s lyrical marathon… and somehow Hits The Spot

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Music

The bizarre childhood accident that helped inspire a ’90s classic

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