ON THE STREETS IN E17

If you seek for my monument, gaze around, reckons Tony Mortimer. He believes that the spirit of East 17 lives on in the artists they inspired who chart today.

No, no, not Westlife.

No, Mortimer believes they have a slightly more impressive legacy:

"The Streets are definitely the closest thing to us in the charts these days.

"I like them a lot. Of course, if you ask them they'll probably say they were influenced by American hip-hop or something."

Yes, we'd imagine it'd be hugely unlikely that Mike Skinner ever said in public that A Grand Don't Come For Free was inspired by Stay. Very, very unlikely.

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