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PAUL YOUNG

Paul Young was born January 17, 1956 in Luton and is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Paul Young started his music career as frontman for Kat Kool & The Kool Kats in the late 1970s and had a bite of chart success with Toast, a novelty number by Streetband in 1978 before disbanding shortly after. Streetband morphed into The Q-Tips in 1979, who despite a Top 50 album, didn’t really happen, and split when Paul signed a solo deal in 1982. Paul Young achieved a string of hit songs in the mid-1980s, including the UK Official Singles Chart Number 1 Wherever I Lay May Hat (That’s My Home) in 1983, and was also the first voice on Band Aid’s million-selling Do They Know It’s Christmas the following year, as well as performing at Live Aid in 1985. Paul Young’s debut album No Parlez was the first of three UK Official Album Chart Number 1s, becoming the second biggest-selling album of the year. Paul Young won three BRIT Awards, including Best New Act in 1984 and Best British Male Solo Artist in 1985. Paul Young also has a band called Los Pacaminos, with whom he occasionally tours with.

PAUL YOUNG Songs stats

UK No1s
1
UK Top 10s
6
UK Top 40s
14
UK Top 75s
20
Weeks at No1
3
Weeks in the Top 10
30
Weeks in the Top 40
82
Weeks in the Top 75
122

PAUL YOUNG Albums stats

UK No1s
3
UK Top 10s
5
UK Top 40s
8
UK Top 75s
9
Weeks at No1
7
Weeks in the Top 10
58
Weeks in the Top 40
126
Weeks in the Top 75
199

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Naftali Morgenstern

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This list does not include Senza Una Donna in which he was co-credited.

But as is often the case you have put his credit as part of the title not the artist. "Senza Una Donna Featuring Paul Young" was not the title of the song. Zucchero featuring Paul Young is the artist, Senza Una Donna is the ttile (possibly with subtitle Without A Woman).

In any case that reached number 4 in 1991 extending his top 10 career into the 90s