The visuals for many songs were simply the lyrics rendered in a kind of ticker-tape typeface, crawling across the screen as lines undulated in the virtual background.

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The chorus and melody come at the same time, but I didn't really sing my songs for many people back then.

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Hughes recently told NPR's Andrea Seabrook that he wrote so many songs for the album, it was hard to decide what to include.

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He has licensed Jackson songs for many ventures in the past two weeks, but has also turned down lots more that were deemed tacky or that might jeopardise future sales, he says.

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Many of her songs are about searching for a little inner peace and quiet.

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Others say that producers are dusting off the classics and readying them for colour releases after the success of many remixed old Bollywood songs.

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In Street of Dreams, many of the songs have been taken from an album written by Ward for the soap's 50th anniversary in 2010.

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But for the past few CDs, the band has been accused of layering their songs with too many bells and whistles.

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And while it's hard to imagine that many others could get people to pay for their scribblings, it was once unthinkable that millions would buy individual songs on iTunes or pay for online access to a newspaper.

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