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- ↑ "Year End Charts: Top Singles". Music Week . 16 January 1993. p. 8.
- ↑ Jones, Alan (16 January 1993). "Best Sellers". Music Week. p. 9.
- ↑ "Year End Charts: Top Albums". Music Week. 16 January 1993. p. 10.
- ↑ Crick, Clair (12 November 2020). "Jessica Plummer – things you didn't know about the I'm A Celebrity star". What's on TV . Retrieved 26 November 2020.
- ↑ The Stephen Oliver Archive at the British Library
- ↑ Henri Temianka Is Dead at 85; Violinist and Founder of Quartet - New York Times