40 years ago, #onthisdayinpop in 1985, #PhyllisNelson released #MoveCloser in the UK - and the then-future-no.1-smash took a slow burn up the charts. Took 12 weeks to reach number one, but when it did it made her the first Black woman to top the UK charts with her own composition
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