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15/12/2007

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Mark Radcliffe learns how 1960s singers boosted their sales abroad.

'She Loves You' in German? 'Space Oddity' in Italian? Mark Radcliffe learns how 1960s singers boosted sales abroad with foreign-language versions of their hits. From December 2007.

From 'She Loves You' in German, to 'Space Oddity' in Italian - it wasn't unusual in the 1960s to find pop artists from the Beatles to David Bowie, attempting to boost their sales with foreign language versions of their British hits. 

Mark Radcliffe looks at one of pop music's quirkier episodes.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.

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