The 38-year-old pool cleaner lost a sing-off against Rachel Hylton with a performance of the Simon and Garfunkel hit Bridge Over Troubled Water.

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Like Bridge Over Troubled Water and Stand By Me, it's in a genre you might call "secular sacred" - as at home in choral versions on Songs of Praise as it is in the record collections of atheists.

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Water films are not notoriously troubled, actually, and lots of water films have been highly successful.

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And ue to high radiation levels at the reactor, workers have been unable to pour water into the troubled pool to cool the reactor, avoding meltdown.

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But when he wrote a story about how Indonesian soldiers in the troubled province of Aceh had poured boiling water over a four-month-old baby, who subsequently died, it clearly touched nerves.

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Already, the Street is pouring cold water on the notion that Hewlett-Packard might find buyers for its troubled Autonomy and EDS units.

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The summit poured cold water on the idea of Eurobonds, in which all members would share some or all of the troubled economies' burden of debt.

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