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Katie Melua: She's got them dancing in the aisles at Tesco

Adam Sweeting, The Independent, 1 August 2004

RECORD COMPANIES love her across-the-board appeal to music fans who buy from supermarkets. Attempts to package the teenage Georgian as the creator of a new genre may not impress the purists but then neither did the music of the Wombles, another creation of Mike Batt.

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