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==In popular culture== The [[Blue Zone (band)|Blue Zone]] single "[[On Fire (Blue Zone song)|On Fire]]", with a young [[Lisa Stansfield]] on lead vocals, was hastily withdrawn from sale, stalling at No. 99 in the [[UK Singles Charts]]. The [[Nick Lowe]] song "Who Was That Man?" from the 1990 album ''[[Party of One]]'' tells the story of the only then-unidentified victim of the King's Cross Fire, identified in 2004 as Alexander Fallon.<ref>{{cite book |last=Birch |first=Will |title=Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qS99DwAAQBAJ&q=nick+lowe+%2522who+was+that+man%2522+king%2527s+cross&pg=PT429 |publisher=Hachette Books |date=20 August 2019 |pages=429 |isbn=978-0-306-92197-1}}</ref> [[Charles Duhigg]] in his 2012 book ''[[The Power of Habit]]'' discusses how bad corporate culture and inefficient management led to the disaster at King's Cross.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ross |first=Marie-Claire |title=King's Cross station - A Safety Accident Case Study |url=https://www.marie-claireross.com/blog/bid/100338/King-s-Cross-station-A-Safety-Accident-Case-Study |website=www.marie-claireross.com |date=3 December 2013 |access-date=15 November 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref> The poem "Tube Ride to Martha's" by [[Matthew Sweeney]] describes the final hours of a victim of the King's Cross Fire.<ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Brien |first1=Sean |title=Matthew Sweeney |url=https://www.casadellapoesia.org/poeti/sweeney-matthew |website=casadellapoesia.org |publisher=Casa della poesia |access-date=27 February 2025 |language=it |date=2002}}</ref>
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