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Fri 11 Nov 2008What links Dido, Grafton Street and the Progessive Democrats?
It's a stunning statistic: one in three Irish households has a copy of a Dido album. With No Angeland Life for Rent, Dido has amassed 22 million worldwide album sales, and in Ireland her figures make David Gray look like a Grafton Street busker.
It is de rigueur for music critics to sneer at Dido (and it's usually the sign of a bad one), a shibboleth that displays a fundamental ignorance of the power of melodic pop music. No, Dido isn't Iggy Pop and The Stooges or The Manic Street Preachers. Funnily enough, though, the Manic's Nicky Wire is thinks that Dido's White Flagis one of the best songs of the past 10 years.
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