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Now playing Next Hear BEST OF CULTURE 2022: Day 6 - Music Our Cultural Advent Calendar continues with our penultimate day of our top music picks of 2022. Today: ‘Sentimental Fool’ by Lee Fields. 06/12/2022
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Now playing Next Hear Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar dominate 2023 Grammy Award nominations Queen Bey leads the nominees with nine nods for her album ‘Renaissance’ and becomes the most-nominated artist in Grammy history, tying with her husband Jay-Z with a total of 88 nods. 16/11/2022
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Now playing Next Culture news Ronnie Spector, '60s icon who sang ‘Be My Baby,’ dies at 78 Martin Scorsese used “Be My Baby” to open his 1973 film “Mean Streets” and the song appears in the title sequence of “Dirty Dancing”. 12/01/2022
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