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‘I was working as a cook when it went to No 1’: how Norman Greenbaum made Spirit in the Sky


‘My label said a four-minute single with lyrics about Jesus would never get played on radio. But, in 1969, the song sold two million copies. It’s now been No 1 in three different decades’

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