The Independent effectively having to function under siege from sacked print workers picketing outside. "The Independent" attracted some of the staff from the two Murdoch broadsheets who had chosen not to move to his company's new headquarters. Launched with the advertising slogan "It is. Are you?", and challenging both "The Guardian" for centre-left readers and "The Times" as the newspaper of record, "The Independent" reached a circulation of over 400,000 by 1989. Competing in a moribund market, "The Independent" sparked a general freshening of newspaper design as well as, within a few years, a price war in the market sector. When "The
You Are the Universe You Are the Universe "You Are the Universe" is a song by The Brand New Heavies, released in 1997. The composition was issued as the third single taken from "Shelter", which remains the Brand New Heavies only album recorded with Siedah Garrett, who afterwards left the group to concentrate on her own songwriting. The song charted at number twenty-one in UK, respectively at number eleven within the British Chart-Track. "You Are the Universe" was covered by Rob Derbyshire and Paul Mullings, the Birmingham’s R&B production duo better known as Full Flava. It features vocals by CeCe Peniston. The Flava's version