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Speaking about the song's legacy, Buchanan said, "People stop you in the street and say: Oh, 'Tinseltown'; I love 'Tinseltown.' It’s lovely, it really is – but’s a bit like somebody saying, you know I really liked you twenty years ago – when you were good-looking!"
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