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* OneHitWonder: [[SubvertedTrope Well, in the US anyway]]. "Tainted Love" was their only Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #8. But in the United Kingdom, it hit #1 on the Official Charts Company pop chart and kicked off ''a string of five hits that were #4 or higher''. They had a total of twelve hits in their native UK.
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* OneHitWonder: Well, in the US anyway. "Tainted Love" was their only Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #8. But in the United Kingdom, it hit #1 on the Official Charts Company pop chart and kicked off ''a string of five hits that were #4 or higher''. They had a total of twelve hits in their native UK.

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* OneHitWonder: [[SubvertedTrope Well, in the US anyway.anyway]]. "Tainted Love" was their only Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #8. But in the United Kingdom, it hit #1 on the Official Charts Company pop chart and kicked off ''a string of five hits that were #4 or higher''. They had a total of twelve hits in their native UK.
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* OneHitWonder: "Tainted Love" was their only Top 40 hit in Billboard.

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* OneHitWonder: Well, in the US anyway. "Tainted Love" was their only Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #8. But in Billboard.the United Kingdom, it hit #1 on the Official Charts Company pop chart and kicked off ''a string of five hits that were #4 or higher''. They had a total of twelve hits in their native UK.
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* WordOfGod: apparently the line in Sex Dwarf "Luring disco dollies to a life of vice" was a headline they found in the tabloid News Of The World.

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* WordOfGod: apparently Apparently the line in Sex Dwarf "Luring disco dollies to a life of vice" was a headline they found in the tabloid News Of The World.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure. Almond came close in 2004 after a serious motorcycle accident, spending two weeks in a coma and suffering very serious injuries.



* WordOfGod: apparently the line in Sex Dwarf "Luring disco dollies to a life of vice" was a headline they found in the tabloid News Of The World.

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* WordOfGod: apparently the line in Sex Dwarf "Luring disco dollies to a life of vice" was a headline they found in the tabloid News Of The World.World.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure. Almond came close in 2004 after a serious motorcycle accident, spending two weeks in a coma and suffering very serious injuries.
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* OneHitWonder: "Tainted Love" was their only Top 40 hit in Billboard.

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* OneHitWonder: "Tainted Love" was their only Top 40 hit in Billboard.Billboard.
* WordOfGod: apparently the line in Sex Dwarf "Luring disco dollies to a life of vice" was a headline they found in the tabloid News Of The World.
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* CreatorBacklash: Marc Almond doesn't seem keen on the cover versions these days. He has a rather ambivalent attitude to "Tainted Love" (partly for the reason mentioned under BerserkButton above) and outright hates "What".
* OneHitWonder: "Tainted Love" was their only Top 40 hit in Billboard.

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