The World Gold Council (WGC) reaffirmed the power of the Love Trade in its 2011 Gold Demand Trends report released this week.

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In their lives and in their tragic deaths they showed the power and strength of love.

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Picasso's work was an embodiment of masculine power, filled with vitality and love of life, up till his death in 1973 at the age of 91.

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Then came the 1960s, a decade not just of flower-power and free love but of social upheaval in which serious crimes soared.

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Gabrielle Aplin's cover version of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's The Power Of Love has entered at number 36 after just over 24 hours on sale - it features in the new John Lewis Christmas ad campaign.

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