Trigonometric Identities - $\sin(x-2\pi)\cos((3\pi/2)-x)+\tan(\pi-x)\tan((3\pi/2)+x)$

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Simplify: $$\sin(x-2\pi)\cos\left(\frac{3\pi}{2}-x\right)+\tan(\pi-x)\tan\left(\frac{3\pi}{2}+x\right)$$

What I did was convert each term to its simplest form.

$$\sin(x-2\pi)\cos\left(\frac{3\pi}{2}-x\right) = \sin(x)\sin(x) = \sin^2(x)$$

$$\tan(\pi-x)\tan\left(\frac{3\pi}{2}+x\right) = (-\tan(x))(-\cot(x))=1 $$

So than I added those two together and got:

$$\sin^2(x)+1$$

However this is wrong somehow. Any ideas?

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Hint: $$\begin{split} &\sin(x-2\pi)\cos(3\pi/2-x)+\tan(\pi-x)\tan(3\pi/2+x)\\ = &-\sin(x)\cos(\pi/2-x) + \left(-\tan(x)\right)\left(-\tan(x-\pi/2)\right)\\ =& -\sin^2(x) + \tan(x)\tan(x-\pi/2) \end{split}$$