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In late 1983 at the Virgin offices in London, Stephen Navin and Jon Webster crunched the numbers on packaging together loads of hits from the young label’s burgeoning roster (plus that of partners EMI) and concluded: “ker-ching!” Everything from Phil Collins’ You Can’t Hurry Love to Karma Chameleon by Culture Club and Kajagoogoo’s Big Apple made it onto the 30-track debut compilation, which on its cover boasted “11 number ones!” […]