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- ↑ "everyHit.com – UK Top 40 Hit Database". everyHit.com. Retrieved 18 April 2007.
- ↑ "Teens do a turn; Stars in their eyes kids ITV, 6.55PM". The Free Library. Retrieved 11 December 2008.