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4th February 2015, 10:20 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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1st January 1985
Back up to Number One for a second week for Wham! and their classic Last Christmas, while christmas songs elsewhere rise to new peaks: Gary Glitter at 6, Captain Sensible at 22, Queen at 37, Alvin Stardust at 38. Tears For Fears brilliant Shout hits a new peak of 3, as Strawberry Switchblade’s brilliant Since Yesterday hits 4. Alison Moyet gets her 2nd solo top 10, Invisible at 8, and Bob Marley returns to the top 10 Could You Be Loved back in for the first time in over 4 years. Ashord and Simpson hit a new peak of 16, Paul Young’s changing at 20, and Kim Wilde’s touching 40, but really not much post-christmas movement and only 3 new entries: another quick new one from Stevie Wonder while his last single hangs about in flight, he’s also advising for the new year Don’t Drive Drunk. Good advice at 43. The Art Of Noise re-enter at 66, Close To The Edit all Trevor-Horned-up. Finally, Meatloaf is going Nowhere Fast at 75. 1 ( 2 ) LAST CHRISTMAS Wham! 2 ( 1 ) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 3 ( 9 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 4 ( 12 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 5 ( 4 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid 6 ( 7 ) ANOTHER ROCK AND ROLL CHRISTMAS Gary Glitter 7 ( 3 ) WE ALL STAND TOGETHER Paul McCartney and The Frog Chorus 8 ( 11 ) INVISIBLE Alison Moyet 9 ( 13 ) COULD YOU BE LOVED Bob Marley And The Wailers 10 ( 5 ) ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK Murray Head 11 ( 6 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 12 ( 8 ) LIKE A VIRGIN Madonna 13 ( 20 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 14 ( 18 ) LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME The Thompson Twins 15 ( 14 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 16 ( 29 ) SOLID Ashford and Simpson 17 ( 31 ) GHOSTBUSTERS Ray Parker Junior 18 ( 17 ) I FEEL FOR YOU Chaka Khan 19 ( 15 ) THE RIDDLE Nik Kershaw 20 ( 26 ) EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE Paul Young 21 ( 10 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 22 ( 39 ) ONE CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE Captain Sensible 23 ( 19 ) I FEEL FINE The Beatles 24 ( 25 ) SHARP DRESSED MAN Z.Z. TOP 25 ( 16 ) FRESH Kool And The Gang 26 ( 21 ) LOUISE Human League 27 ( 23 ) ALL JOIN HANDS Slade 28 ( 33 ) SAN DAMIANO (HEART AND SOUL) Sal Solo 29 ( 22 ) I WON’T RUN AWAY Alvin Stardust 30 ( 32 ) IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO Bronski Beat 31 ( 36 ) NELLIE THE ELEPHANT The Toy Dolls 32 ( 28 ) HARD HABIT TO BREAK Chicago 33 ( 35 ) STRANGER IN TOWN Toto 34 ( 27 ) ROUND AND ROUND Spandau Ballet 35 ( 43 ) BIG DEAL (THEME) Bobby G 36 ( 30 ) THE WILD BOYS Duran Duran 37 ( 37 ) THANK GOD IT’S CHRISTMAS Queen 38 ( 40 ) SO NEAR TO CHRISTMAS Alvin Stardust 39 ( 24 ) TEARDROPS Shakin’ Stevens 40 ( 47 ) THE TOUCH Kim Wilde 41 ( 34 ) TREAT HER LIKE A LADY The Temptations 42 ( 50 ) SOUL DEEP The Council Collective 43 ( NEW ) DON’T DRIVE DRUNK Stevie Wonder 44 ( 41 ) LET IT ALL BLOW The Dazz Band 45 ( 38 ) SEND MY HEART The Adventures 46 ( 57 ) THE ROSE IS SOWN Big Country 47 ( 60 ) I WOULD DIE 4 U Prince 48 ( 68 ) OUT OF TOUCH Daryl Hall and John Oates 49 ( 44 ) CARIBBEAN QUEEN (NO MORE LOVE ON THE RUN) Billy Ocean 50 ( 64 ) SEE THAT GLOW This Island Earth 51 ( 46 ) NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS Paul McCartney 52 ( 48 ) RESPECT YOURSELF The Kane Gang 53 ( 53 ) DO THE CONGA Black Lace 54 ( 55 ) VALOTTE Julian Lennon 55 ( 42 ) THE MEDAL SONG Culture Club 56 ( 59 ) I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER Jim Diamond 57 ( 54 ) DRIVE The Cars 58 ( 45 ) LOVE LIGHT IN FLIGHT Stevie Wonder 59 ( 51 ) THE VOICE The Moody Blues 60 ( 56 ) THE NEVER ENDING STORY Limahl 61 ( 52 ) PRIVATE DANCER Tina Turner 62 ( 49 ) YOU MIGHT THINK The Cars 63 ( 63 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 64 ( 61 ) HALF A MINUTE Matt Bianco 65 ( 69 ) WE BELONG Pat Benatar 66 ( RE ) CLOSE (TO THE EDIT) The Art Of Noise 67 ( 62 ) WARNING SIGN Nick Heyward 68 ( 58 ) STRUT Sheena Easton 69 ( 71 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 70 ( 73 ) SEPTEMBER SONG Ian McCulloch 71 ( 66 ) NO MERCY The Stranglers 72 ( 70 ) MADAME BUTTERFLY Malcolm McLaren 73 ( 65 ) I’M A LITTLE CHRISTMAS CRACKER The Bouncing Czecks 74 ( 74 ) NEVER LET HER SLIP AWAY Trevor Walters 75 ( NEW ) NOWHERE FAST Meatloaf TV: Dec 29 1984 - Jan 4 1985 1. Star Wars: film 2. Superman II: film 3. Another Audience With Dame Edna 4. Gallipoli: film 5. The Towering Inferno: film 6. The Wizard Of Oz: film 7. Duck Soup: film 8. The Deer Hunter: film 9. Morecambe & Wise Classics 10. Top Of The Pops 11. Diced Carrott 12. Dr. No: film 13. The Incredible Shrinking Woman: film 14. Dallas 15. Kramer vs Kramer: film TV over the holiday period is pure domination of classic movies, and of course Star Wars is on top, just ahead of Superman II. More surprisingly, quite high is the Australian war movie Gallipoli, one I’ve not seen since I think, and should check out again. In the TV comedian stakes, Dame Edna comes out on top, being as Barry Humphries was at his peak, ahead of Morecambe & Wise and Jasper Carrott. Christmas in Blidworth turned out to be a series of family arguments, tiffs, sulks and storming-off’s. Happy days. Back to Poole, and some time to myself as I developed a cold from the cold North and stress. New Years Eve was spent with parents on the Marines camp, though they went to a party and I at last said “good riddance” to a rotten year on my own. |
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4th February 2015, 03:35 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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8th January 1985
I hit 27 years old with nothing much achieved, and nothing much on the horizon, but at least Wham! have Everything She Wants at number one, as radio flips from playing Last Christmas to the sultry other A side that had been overshadowed so far. In the USA both tracks were released separately and Everything She Wants topped on it’s own merits. In the UK 2-fer-1, hooray! Foreigner go top 5 for the first ever time, Ashford & Simpson go top 10 for the first time as artists, and plenty of tracks go back up or re-enter after the year-end run-downs, but I’ll ignore all of them and look at the new... Sal Solo’s traditional-hymn-sounding San Damiano is up to 13, Bronski Beat’s actual old It Ain’t Necessarily So is at 20, and highest new entry is an immaculate Bucks Fizz, the recovering Mike Nolan after brain surgery following their coach crash, and one spot ahead of Bobby G’s TV theme. I Hear Talk is one of their best records and picked up a fair bit of good-will at the time, classy and beautifully-produced. Smiley Culture is in at 40, meanwhile, with Police Officer and his Cockney-Jamaican reggae vocal style, ending up influencing later much bigger cockney-rap stars. Smiley killed himself during a police raid in 2011, which sort of removes the upbeat mood somewhat from the record. 60’s and 70’s soul/Philly greats The Intruders have a welcome return at 45 with Who Do You Love, some 11 years since their last chart entry, Win Place Or Show (She’s A Winner). Also starting his chart career in 1974, Billy Ocean confirms his revival as the guitar-riffed funky Loverboy pops in at 48, complete with great aliens video (for the time). Melle Mel appears to have promoted himself to Grandmaster for his solo follow-up to the classic White Lines, Step Off. I think Bud in brilliant blue-collar sitcom Married:With Children also promoted himself to the Grandmaster B some years later, so it must have caught on. 1 ( 1 ) LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS Wham! 2 ( 4 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 3 ( 3 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 4 ( 5 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid 5 ( 13 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 6 ( 6 ) ANOTHER ROCK AND ROLL CHRISTMAS Gary Glitter 7 ( 2 ) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 8 ( 12 ) LIKE A VIRGIN Madonna 9 ( 10 ) ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK Murray Head 10 ( 16 ) SOLID Ashford and Simpson 11 ( 11 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 12 ( 17 ) GHOSTBUSTERS Ray Parker Junior 13 ( 28 ) SAN DAMIANO (HEART AND SOUL) Sal Solo 14 ( 14 ) LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME The Thompson Twins 15 ( 15 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 16 ( 7 ) WE ALL STAND TOGETHER Paul McCartney and The Frog Chorus 17 ( 8 ) INVISIBLE Alison Moyet 18 ( 20 ) EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE Paul Young 19 ( 18 ) I FEEL FOR YOU Chaka Khan 20 ( 30 ) IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO Bronski Beat 21 ( 19 ) THE RIDDLE Nik Kershaw 22 ( 22 ) ONE CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE Captain Sensible 23 ( 9 ) COULD YOU BE LOVED Bob Marley And The Wailers 24 ( 24 ) SHARP DRESSED MAN Z.Z. TOP 25 ( 25 ) FRESH Kool And The Gang 26 ( 40 ) THE TOUCH Kim Wilde 27 ( 26 ) LOUISE Human League 28 ( 27 ) ALL JOIN HANDS Slade 29 ( 33 ) STRANGER IN TOWN Toto 30 ( 31 ) NELLIE THE ELEPHANT The Toy Dolls 31 ( 23 ) I FEEL FINE The Beatles 32 ( NEW ) I HEAR TALK Bucks Fizz 33 ( 35 ) BIG DEAL (THEME) Bobby G 34 ( 34 ) ROUND AND ROUND Spandau Ballet 35 ( 48 ) OUT OF TOUCH Daryl Hall and John Oates 36 ( 43 ) DON’T DRIVE DRUNK Stevie Wonder 37 ( 21 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 38 ( 32 ) HARD HABIT TO BREAK Chicago 39 ( 29 ) I WON’T RUN AWAY Alvin Stardust 40 ( NEW ) POLICE OFFICER Smiley Culture 41 ( 36 ) THE WILD BOYS Duran Duran 42 ( 42 ) SOUL DEEP The Council Collective 43 ( 41 ) TREAT HER LIKE A LADY The Temptations 44 ( 68 ) STRUT Sheena Easton 45 ( NEW ) WHO DO YOU LOVE The Intruders 46 ( 38 ) SO NEAR TO CHRISTMAS Alvin Stardust 47 ( 44 ) LET IT ALL BLOW The Dazz Band 48 ( NEW ) LOVERBOY Billy Ocean 49 ( 50 ) SEE THAT GLOW This Island Earth 50 ( 54 ) VALOTTE Julian Lennon 51 ( RE ) WHITE LINES (DON’T DON’T DO IT) Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel 52 ( 49 ) CARIBBEAN QUEEN (NO MORE LOVE ON THE RUN) Billy Ocean 53 ( 47 ) I WOULD DIE 4 U Prince 54 ( 37 ) THANK GOD IT’S CHRISTMAS Queen 55 ( 39 ) TEARDROPS Shakin’ Stevens 56 ( 66 ) CLOSE (TO THE EDIT) The Art Of Noise 57 ( NEW ) STEP OFF Grandmaster Melle Mel and The Furious Five 58 ( 51 ) NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS Paul McCartney 59 ( 56 ) I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER Jim Diamond 60 ( RE ) FREEDOM Wham! 61 ( 57 ) DRIVE The Cars 62 ( 71 ) NO MERCY The Stranglers 63 ( 63 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 64 ( 60 ) THE NEVER ENDING STORY Limahl 65 ( 45 ) SEND MY HEART The Adventures 66 ( 46 ) WHERE THE ROSE IS SOWN Big Country 67 ( RE ) AGADOO Black Lace 68 ( 55 ) THE MEDAL SONG Culture Club 69 ( 69 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 70 ( 72 ) MADAME BUTTERFLY Malcolm McLaren 71 ( RE ) I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU Stevie Wonder 72 ( 53 ) DO THE CONGA Black Lace 73 ( 59 ) THE VOICE The Moody Blues 74 ( 62 ) YOU MIGHT THINK The Cars 75 ( NEW ) TELL ME GIRL Scary Thieves TV: Jan 5-11th 1. Star Trek: The Squire Of Gothos 2. It’ll Be Alright On The Night 4 3. Another Audience With Dame Edna 4. Gregory’s Girl: film 5. Top Of The Pops 6. Doctor Who 7. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 8. The Phil Silvers Show 9. The Addams Family 10. Spitting Image Back to work for me, still stressed about the driving of my car-share driver and trying to tactfully tell her to slow down, then when that didn’t work tried the more direct “I may have to get alternative arrangements” hinting. Bob at work was good fun, and I generally came to the conclusion I needed to go out and socialise, missing my college friends a LOT, and also I needed to come up with some sort of goals to aim for, including getting my own transport. My first nephew was born the day after my birthday, Gavin just missed it by an hour and a half! Anything to be awkward, though he did hit my Aunty’s birthday, and mum and dad hot-footed up to Mansfield to see him while I verbally snapped at my boss at work. He got his own back, making me work outside in the freezing cold for hours, hands frozen to the computer, to teach me a lesson. I already knew he was a so and so, though, so didn’t learn anything new. He also kept quiet about us needlessly putting in annual leave for New Years Eve, so Bob and I both lost a days pay for nothing. Our fault apparently.... |
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4th February 2015, 09:04 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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15th January 1985
First new number of 1985 is the fabulous Strawberry Switchblade, there’s nothing not to love about the record, from the girls polka-dot obsessed video and image, to the 80’s-production values on a great melodic song. Upbeat, positive and joyous, I don’t see how anyone can not like it! The only downside is the equally great Shout peaks at 2 for a 2nd Tears For Fears classic falling short at the final hurdle. Or Durdle (Dore) video-wise. Salo Solo does what Classix Nouveau never managed, meanwhile - he gets into the 10! The charts finally get some action as This Island Earth rocket to 21, Dead Or Alive re-enter even higher after a short break out the chart, with the exciting You Spin Me Round, and Imagination return with Thank You My Love for 4 years of chart entries, it’s pleasant enough. The better stuff is lower down though, as Abba jump in at 31 - well, again it’s Bjorn and Benny, and Chess, and two musical dependables, Barbara Dickson (giving her 9 years since Answer Me hit 2) and Elaine Paige (6 years since Evita), duetting the great I Know Him So Well. It could have been awesome though if the boys had got Frida and Agnetha duetting instead, oh, and just called it an Abba record. Doh! Springsteen’s Dancing In The Dark again, after going top 40 in the summer of 84, Yah Mo B There is also back a year or so on, at 38, for James Ingram and Michael McDonald, while buzz act of January 1985 (ie most-hyped by the record industry) were King, long-hair and coloured Doc Martens. Love And Pride wasn’t bad though, and in at 44, ahead of Eurythmics 1984 movie ballad, Julia, at 52, and Amii Stewart’s return after a gap of 5 years with Friends at 56. Best of all though it’s Bryan Adams giving it some Canadian rock oomph as he debuts at 59 with the frankly wonderful, exciting Run To You, still his best record. Ol’ Bry went on to mega success of course, and mega-hate thanks to THAT record, but if you need convincing he’s all right, take a gander at the guitar work, the shouty growled chorus, and the ominous, frantic mood of this track. Others: Chaka Khan’s back, Malcolm McLaren’s still in an opera groove, The Colourfield debut (aka Terry Hall’s third band, he just can’t seem to settle down, having left The Specials at their peak, and the Fun Boy Three at their peak. Not a problem with The Colourfield, as they never peaked at anything), and finally Lou Reed pops in briefly with Suzanne some 12 years after taking a much more impressive Walk On The Wild Side. 1 ( 2 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 2 ( 3 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 3 ( 5 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 4 ( 4 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid 5 ( 1 ) LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS Wham! 6 ( 13 ) SAN DAMIANO (HEART AND SOUL) Sal Solo 7 ( 10 ) SOLID Ashford and Simpson 8 ( 8 ) LIKE A VIRGIN Madonna 9 ( 9 ) ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK Murray Head 10 ( 6 ) ANOTHER ROCK AND ROLL CHRISTMAS Gary Glitter 11 ( 17 ) INVISIBLE Alison Moyet 12 ( 14 ) LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME The Thompson Twins 13 ( 7 ) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 14 ( 20 ) IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO Bronski Beat 15 ( 11 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 16 ( 15 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 17 ( 12 ) GHOSTBUSTERS Ray Parker Junior 18 ( 24 ) SHARP DRESSED MAN Z.Z. TOP 19 ( 19 ) I FEEL FOR YOU Chaka Khan 20 ( 16 ) WE ALL STAND TOGETHER Paul McCartney and The Frog Chorus 21 ( 49 ) SEE THAT GLOW This Island Earth 22 ( 18 ) EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE Paul Young 23 ( 21 ) THE RIDDLE Nik Kershaw 24 ( 32 ) I HEAR TALK Bucks Fizz 25 ( RE ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 26 ( NEW ) THANK YOU MY LOVE Imagination 27 ( 25 ) FRESH Kool And The Gang 28 ( 23 ) COULD YOU BE LOVED Bob Marley And The Wailers 29 ( 30 ) NELLIE THE ELEPHANT The Toy Dolls 30 ( 40 ) POLICE OFFICER Smiley Culture 31 ( NEW ) I KNOW HIM SO WELL Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige 32 ( NEW ) DANCING IN THE DARK Bruce Springsteen 33 ( 31 ) I FEEL FINE The Beatles 34 ( 42 ) SOUL DEEP The Council Collective 35 ( 22 ) ONE CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE Captain Sensible 36 ( 36 ) DON’T DRIVE DRUNK Stevie Wonder 37 ( 27 ) LOUISE Human League 38 ( NEW ) YAH MO B THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 39 ( RE ) WE BELONG Pat Benatar 40 ( 57 ) STEP OFF Grandmaster Melle Mel and The Furious Five 41 ( 41 ) THE WILD BOYS Duran Duran 42 ( 26 ) THE TOUCH Kim Wilde 43 ( 48 ) LOVERBOY Billy Ocean 44 ( NEW ) LOVE AND PRIDE King 45 ( 45 ) WHO DO YOU LOVE The Intruders 46 ( 29 ) STRANGER IN TOWN Toto 47 ( 28 ) ALL JOIN HANDS Slade 48 ( 51 ) WHITE LINES (DON’T DON’T DO IT) Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel 49 ( 50 ) VALOTTE Julian Lennon 50 ( 38 ) HARD HABIT TO BREAK Chicago 51 ( 39 ) I WON’T RUN AWAY Alvin Stardust 52 ( NEW ) JULIA Eurythmics 53 ( 33 ) BIG DEAL (THEME) Bobby G 54 ( 44 ) STRUT Sheena Easton 55 ( 37 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 56 ( NEW ) FRIENDS Amii Stewart 57 ( 35 ) OUT OF TOUCH Daryl Hall and John Oates 58 ( 47 ) LET IT ALL BLOW The Dazz Band 59 ( NEW ) RUN TO YOU Bryan Adams 60 ( 74 ) YOU MIGHT THINK The Cars 61 ( 34 ) ROUND AND ROUND Spandau Ballet 62 ( 53 ) I WOULD DIE 4 U Prince 63 ( 56 ) CLOSE (TO THE EDIT) The Art Of Noise 64 ( 63 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 65 ( 61 ) DRIVE The Cars 66 ( 67 ) AGADOO Black Lace 67 ( 71 ) I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU Stevie Wonder 68 ( 58 ) NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS Paul McCartney 69 ( NEW ) THIS IS MY NIGHT Chaka Khan 70 ( 69 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 71 ( 52 ) CARIBBEAN QUEEN (NO MORE LOVE ON THE RUN) Billy Ocean 72 ( 70 ) MADAME BUTTERFLY Malcolm McLaren 73 ( NEW ) CARMEN Malcolm McLaren 74 ( NEW ) THINKING OF YOU The Colourfield 75 ( NEW ) I LOVE YOU SUZANNE Lou Reed Jan 12-18th 1. Star Trek: Return Of The Archons 2. Hill Street Blues 3. The Addams Family 4. The Phil Silvers Show 5. The Avengers 6. Top Of The Pops 7. Doctor Who 8. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 9. Dallas 10. The New Avengers At work in Dorset, I find I just can’t resist answering back when I don’t agree with someone. Ego? Yes. Plus, I’m right. Snowy roads around Blandford this time, cold but at least sunny outside. I did my charts, happy to see plenty of faves from 1984 that never made it at last getting some UK chart action and Radio 1 airplay. It’s important to me they become hits...! Bob popped round with his new Scirocco car, snazzy, as he left to welcome his mum and dad to Bournemouth, they’d moved down, and I’d get to know them fairly well over the years to my pleasure. Mum and dad bought a Yorkie terrier dog from friends of theirs, and Picket (as she was called) turned out to have a big impact on the family until, and including, the traumatic day she died. On Sunday we went to visit our Singapore friends The Wainwright’s again in Chippenham, where Jamie had morphed into trendy James, and we had a nice National Trust pub meal. It was good to see Doreen laugh a little at old times, but we all wished Dale could have been there. I still get annoyed he missed so much life. |
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5th February 2015, 08:08 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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22nd January 1985
Another new number one, it’s the UK/US smash gospel-flavoured rock anthem classic that is I Want To Know What Love Is giving Foreigner a number one 7 years since they first charted. It’s glorious, especially that climactic Jennifer Holliday fade out, she’s the one that did the spine-tingling definitive version of And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going, top 10 in my charts 1982. Highest new entry is Prince - I say new, it’s actually the UK catching up on his 2 minor 1983 hits bundled together, both peaked at 9 in my chart, and together they hit 6, my initial preference was for Little Red Corvette, but 1999 became the main track. Babs and Elaine overtake the Abba boys other song at 8 and 9, while Amii Stewart’s Friends collectively jump to 14, and Bucks Fizz overhear rumours at 15. The Limit say “yeah” as they enter at 27, a smooth bit of jazz funk, while the rougher side of dance-rock (in comparison, only) takes Billy Ocean’s Loverboy to 24. King aren’t doing quite as well as Prince, as royalty Pride comes after Love. There’s loads of new entries, but let’s not mention Russ Abbott! Especially not when Elvis has a medley of some of his finest moments at 48 - 4 minutes to learn about the fuss: think Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra...and then boom! Elvis. Icon. Some US pop heart-throbs arrive, Corey Hart and the growing-up New Edition, not to mention Phil Collins in a Prince 1999 groove, Sussudio doesn’t fool me, nor is it quite as good. Chicago are back, uninspiring, actually, despite what they say. Heaven 17...and that’s no lie, get a low entry at 72 but it’s not bad, nor is John Lydon and Afrika Bambaata aka Time Zone, punk funking it up synth style. Johnny Rotten was a mere 8 years earlier! Which leaves the jewell in the pop crown, as the much-missed fantastic Kirsty MacColl gets two appearances: her brilliant version of Billy Bragg’s A New England at 61, and Tracey Ullman’s pretty good version of Kirsty’s Terry, Tracey already having wonderfully covered Kirsty’s They Don’t Know. 1 ( 3 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 2 ( 1 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 3 ( 6 ) SAN DAMIANO (HEART AND SOUL) Sal Solo 4 ( 2 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 5 ( 7 ) SOLID Ashford and Simpson 6 ( NEW ) LITTLE RED CORVETTE/ 1999 Prince 7 ( 4 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid 8 ( 31 ) I KNOW HIM SO WELL Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige 9 ( 9 ) ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK Murray Head 10 ( 5 ) LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS Wham! 11 ( 8 ) LIKE A VIRGIN Madonna 12 ( 14 ) IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO Bronski Beat 13 ( 10 ) ANOTHER ROCK AND ROLL CHRISTMAS Gary Glitter 14 ( 56 ) FRIENDS Amii Stewart 15 ( 24 ) I HEAR TALK Bucks Fizz 16 ( 18 ) SHARP DRESSED MAN Z.Z. TOP 17 ( 26 ) THANK YOU MY LOVE Imagination 18 ( 15 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 19 ( 17 ) GHOSTBUSTERS Ray Parker Junior 20 ( 16 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 21 ( 11 ) INVISIBLE Alison Moyet 22 ( 13 ) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 23 ( 21 ) SEE THAT GLOW This Island Earth 24 ( 43 ) LOVERBOY Billy Ocean 25 ( 19 ) I FEEL FOR YOU Chaka Khan 26 ( 32 ) DANCING IN THE DARK Bruce Springsteen 27 ( NEW ) SAY YEAH The Limit 28 ( 44 ) LOVE AND PRIDE King 29 ( 20 ) WE ALL STAND TOGETHER Paul McCartney and The Frog Chorus 30 ( 38 ) YAH MO B THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 31 ( 12 ) LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME The Thompson Twins 32 ( 59 ) RUN TO YOU Bryan Adams 33 ( 63 ) CLOSE (TO THE EDIT) The Art Of Noise 34 ( 23 ) THE RIDDLE Nik Kershaw 35 ( 39 ) WE BELONG Pat Benatar 36 ( 40 ) STEP OFF Grandmaster Melle Mel and The Furious Five 37 ( 69 ) THIS IS MY NIGHT Chaka Khan 38 ( 27 ) FRESH Kool And The Gang 39 ( 25 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 40 ( 33 ) I FEEL FINE The Beatles 41 ( 28 ) COULD YOU BE LOVED Bob Marley And The Wailers 42 ( 41 ) THE WILD BOYS Duran Duran 43 ( 22 ) EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE Paul Young 44 ( NEW ) ATMOSPHERE Russ Abbott 45 ( 42 ) THE TOUCH Kim Wilde 46 ( 35 ) ONE CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE Captain Sensible 47 ( 30 ) POLICE OFFICER Smiley Culture 48 ( NEW ) THE ELVIS MEDLEY Elvis Presley 49 ( 37 ) LOUISE Human League 50 ( 36 ) DON’T DRIVE DRUNK Stevie Wonder 51 ( NEW ) NEUTRON DANCE The Pointer Sisters 52 ( 52 ) JULIA Eurythmics 53 ( 46 ) STRANGER IN TOWN Toto 54 ( NEW ) IT AIN’T ENOUGH Corey Hart 55 ( 29 ) NELLIE THE ELEPHANT The Toy Dolls 56 ( NEW ) COOL IT NOW New Edition 57 ( 34 ) SOUL DEEP The Council Collective 58 ( 51 ) I WON’T RUN AWAY Alvin Stardust 59 ( 74 ) THINKING OF YOU The Colourfield 60 ( 57 ) OUT OF TOUCH Daryl Hall and John Oates 61 ( NEW ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 62 ( 50 ) HARD HABIT TO BREAK Chicago 63 ( NEW ) SUSSUDIO Phil Collins 64 ( 64 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 65 ( 65 ) DRIVE The Cars 66 ( 48 ) WHITE LINES (DON’T DON’T DO IT) Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel 67 ( NEW ) YOU’RE THE INSPIRATION Chicago 68 ( 55 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 69 ( 68 ) NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS Paul McCartney 70 ( 70 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 71 ( 47 ) ALL JOIN HANDS Slade 72 ( NEW ) ... AND THAT’S NO LIE Heaven 17 73 ( 45 ) WHO DO YOU LOVE The Intruders 74 ( NEW ) TERRY Tracey Ullman 75 ( NEW ) WORLD DESTRUCTION Time Zone TV 19-25th Jan 1. Star Trek: Operation Annihilate 2. The Phil Silvers Show 3. Hill Street Blues 4. Top Of The Pops 5. The Other Side Of The Tracks: Abba 6. The Twilight Zone 7. The New Avengers 8. The Rockford Files 9. Dallas 10. Doctor Who On TV, Paul Gambaccini’s excellent pop profile show The Other Side Of The Tracks was on with a Benny & Bjorn interview, while Hill Street Blues, Doctor Who and Dallas are the only new dramas still doing it for me. Watched an episode of The Avengers with mum and dad, it was the one they filmed on an RAF base, dad watched Diana Rigg & Patrick Macnee re-do takes quite a few times from his work window. In my work: quite snowy again in the wilds of Dorset, Bob was off ill, on the coldest day in 20 years, culminating in a big-ish friday snowfall, which meant slow bus to work as I marvelled at how quickly the south of England grinds to a halt at the drop of a snowflake. Bournemouth and Poole are still the same, drivers have no idea to how to deal with snow on the road and it quickly slows to walking pace, or they start calling in for the day off work cos it takes a bit longer. Wimps. If they only knew that the northerners at work always talk about them, the snowfall in Dorset is never more than an inch. Of our section, only Paul (from Sheffield) and me (Mansfield/Lincoln) made it in. |
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6th February 2015, 08:08 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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29th January 1985
Foreigner hold for a second week as 16 new entries give the chart a real clear-out, though the top end is more sedate, with Bucks Fizz’ I Hear Talk at 4 giving them 4 years of top 5 hits, at least one a year, usually 2. Amii Stewart’s pleasant Friends, and Bronski Beat’s retro It Ain’t Necessarily So grab a top 10 slot before the onslaught lower down - Springsteen outdoes his 1984 chart high at 12, King at 13 are still quite proud, but highest new entry at 16 is the fabulous This Is Not America, David Bowie’s collaboration with Jazz act The Pat Metheny Band and back on form to boot. At 19, The Commodores are back, minus Lionel Richie, and show they don’t really need him on this classy sad soul tribute to the then-recently late Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson: Nightshift. Slade don’t hang about, a third hit in 3 months, as 7 Year Bitch brings them in at 25 for a singalong chant that never really caught on (probably the title!). Also back for a spot of spelling lesson, M.E.T.H.O.D. of Modern Love gives Hall & Oates yet another great pop entry at 35, while The Honeydrippers cover Phil Phillips’ 50’s doo-wop era classic, Sea Of Love at 36. Who are the Honeydrippers? Heard of Robert Plant? Jimmy Page? Led Zeppelin? Nile Rodgers? He’s had a hit or 2? How about Jeff Beck? Hi Ho Silver Lining? No? Pretty much a supergroup, and all pretty much still very active. It’s terrific, too. Then there’s two masterpiece classics a bit lower down: The Smiths How Soon Is Now was under-appreciated in the UK charts, and in mine too, at the time, it’s pure genius, the Johnny Marr guitar is especially stunning, but this remains a record to bring joy - as I’m hoping Morrissey will grace us in 2 months when I see him, fingers-crossed. But there’s another: Don Henley had been pretty damn fine with his Dirty laundry and other solo stuff since The Eagles split in 1980, but nothing to match up to One Of These Nights - till now! Boys Of Summer is very 80’s-sounding, great lyrics, great sound, great song, so good, like The Smiths How Soon Is Now, they both had to come back again and chart in the 90’s. 58 and 67 respectively, though, for now. Others: Howard Jones full of optimism a good 10 years before D:Ream, opining Things Can Only Get Better. Bronski Beat might disagree though. Sheila E’s in at 70, better known as a protege of Prince. Prince had lots of short lithe female protoges: he insisted he preferred the company of women to men, I’m sure that’s the main reason. The Belle Of St Mark is very Prince-sounding, and pretty good. Dan Hartman’s back again; Jermaine Jackson gets another solo hit as brother Michael takes a break from Thriller album tracks to release; The Boomtown Rats have yet another decent single completely ignored, at 75, the good A Hold Of Me from the decent album In The Long Grass. 1 ( 1 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 2 ( 2 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 3 ( 8 ) I KNOW HIM SO WELL Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige 4 ( 15 ) I HEAR TALK Bucks Fizz 5 ( 3 ) SAN DAMIANO (HEART AND SOUL) Sal Solo 6 ( 6 ) 1999/LITTLE RED CORVETTE Prince 7 ( 5 ) SOLID Ashford and Simpson 8 ( 4 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 9 ( 14 ) FRIENDS Amii Stewart 10 ( 12 ) IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO Bronski Beat 11 ( 7 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid 12 ( 26 ) DANCING IN THE DARK Bruce Springsteen 13 ( 28 ) LOVE AND PRIDE King 14 ( 10 ) LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS Wham! 15 ( 11 ) LIKE A VIRGIN Madonna 16 ( NEW ) THIS IS NOT AMERICA David Bowie and The Pat Metheny Group 17 ( 17 ) THANK YOU MY LOVE Imagination 18 ( 24 ) LOVERBOY Billy Ocean 19 ( NEW ) NIGHTSHIFT The Commodores 20 ( 30 ) YAH MO B THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 21 ( 9 ) ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK Murray Head 22 ( 27 ) SAY YEAH The Limit 23 ( 33 ) CLOSE (TO THE EDIT) The Art Of Noise 24 ( 32 ) RUN TO YOU Bryan Adams 25 ( NEW ) 7 YEAR BITCH Slade 26 ( 18 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 27 ( 35 ) WE BELONG Pat Benatar 28 ( 13 ) ANOTHER ROCK AND ROLL CHRISTMAS Gary Glitter 29 ( 20 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 30 ( 16 ) SHARP DRESSED MAN Z.Z. TOP 31 ( 19 ) GHOSTBUSTERS Ray Parker Junior 32 ( 22 ) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 33 ( 37 ) THIS IS MY NIGHT Chaka Khan 34 ( 25 ) I FEEL FOR YOU Chaka Khan 35 ( NEW ) METHOD OF MODERN LOVE Daryl Hall and John Oates 36 ( NEW ) SEA OF LOVE The Honeydrippers 37 ( 21 ) INVISIBLE Alison Moyet 38 ( 29 ) WE ALL STAND TOGETHER Paul McCartney and The Frog Chorus 39 ( 61 ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 40 ( NEW ) CAN I Cashmere 41 ( 23 ) SEE THAT GLOW This Island Earth 42 ( 63 ) SUSSUDIO Phil Collins 43 ( 44 ) ATMOSPHERE Russ Abbott 44 ( 59 ) THINKING OF YOU The Colourfield 45 ( 34 ) THE RIDDLE Nik Kershaw 46 ( 42 ) THE WILD BOYS Duran Duran 47 ( 48 ) THE ELVIS MEDLEY Elvis Presley 48 ( 40 ) I FEEL FINE The Beatles 49 ( 54 ) IT AIN’T ENOUGH Corey Hart 50 ( 51 ) NEUTRON DANCE The Pointer Sisters 51 ( 31 ) LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME The Thompson Twins 52 ( 67 ) YOU’RE THE INSPIRATION Chicago 53 ( 43 ) EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE Paul Young 54 ( 72 ) ... AND THAT’S NO LIE Heaven 17 55 ( 38 ) FRESH Kool And The Gang 56 ( 39 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 57 ( 75 ) WORLD DESTRUCTION Time Zone 58 ( NEW ) HOW SOON IS NOW The Smiths 59 ( 36 ) STEP OFF Grandmaster Melle Mel and The Furious Five 60 ( NEW ) “20/20” George Benson 61 ( NEW ) JUST A SHADOW Big Country 62 ( 52 ) JULIA Eurythmics 63 ( 49 ) LOUISE Human League 64 ( 58 ) I WON’T RUN AWAY Alvin Stardust 65 ( NEW ) THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER Howard Jones 66 ( 64 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 67 ( NEW ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 68 ( 65 ) DRIVE The Cars 69 ( 70 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 70 ( NEW ) THE BELLE OF ST. MARK Sheila E 71 ( NEW ) IN THE EVENING Sheryl Lee Ralph 72 ( NEW ) WE ARE THE YOUNG Dan Hartman 73 ( 56 ) COOL IT NOW New Edition 74 ( NEW ) DO WHAT YOU DO Jermaine Jackson 75 ( NEW ) A HOLD OF ME The Boomtown Rats TV 26 Jan-1st Feb 1. Star Trek: Assignment Earth 2. Hill Street Blues 3. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 4. Top Of The Pops 5. Dallas 6. The Addams Family (2 eps) 7. The Avengers 8. The Rockford Files 9. Doctor Who 10. Newhart On TV, Hill Street Blues still rules the new shows, though sitcom Newhart and it’s great hillbilly and other supporting cast of characters was getting better and better. Bob Newhart is SO funny. Always. Frankie Goes To Hollywood released tickets for Bournemouth gigs this week: sold out. Damn! I didn’t get one. I got a new spiky-gel haircut for £7 (I pay £7 for a haircut 30 years later, bear in mind). Bob took the piss out of it on Monday, calling me a hedgehog. I don’t recall the haircut lasting the week to be honest, and there are no photos in existence, so I’ll just have to put it down to experience, and there was only one more Bad 80’s Hair experience ahead of me (yes, it was a permed nightmare), before I decided once and for all that trendy hairdo’s were not for me. Phew! |
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6th March 2015, 08:48 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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5th February 1985
It’s...It’s...A Sweet Chart-topper from nowhere, as my love and nostalgia for the manic glam-rockers propels a megamix of their biggest hits on top to give them a 6th number one, following on from 5-in-a-row from Wig Wam Bam in 1972 to Teenage Rampage in 1974. Fab! The originals that is, the megamix has nothing good to add to them, it’s purely an exercise in nostalgia. Meanwhile, a year late, Bruce takes Dancing In The Dark into the top 10, at 7, rather stunningly his first ever, having just missed out with all previous classic singles. King also are have Pride in being at 8, and Bowie gets another at 9, to add to his very long list by this time, since Starman first turned the trick in 1972. Meanwhile Slade also add another top 20 (Bitch!) to their 14-year-run of them, since Coz I Luv You almost topped my chart in 1971. 14 for 14 years, how apt. Say Yeah? That’s The Limit, jazzfunk smoothstyle at 15, ahead of some noisy Art. Don Henley is driving at great speed with his Deadhead stickers on his cadillac, as The Boys Of Summer surge to 25, as the highest “actual” new track is This House, from Big Sound Authority, very much in a Style Council groove at 30, but they never really broke big sadly. The Colourfield takes Terry Hall back into the top 40, ditto Eurythmics’ Julia, Phil Collins’ Sussidio, and Time Zone’s John Lydon and Afrika Bambaata’s World Destruction. New entries from Sam Harris at 51, Hearts On Fire, and Flash And The Pan get one of their irregular entries, Midnight Man at 54 giving the Aussies another flash in the pan 7 years on from And The Band Played On. They are always good, and should be better remembered than they are. David Lee Roth meantime feels he can do OK without the Van Halen boys, and covers the Beach Boys’ California Girls. Not that well, actually, though it’s a bit of fun to pop in at 56. MUCH better is 57, and it’s another 70’s pop star making a comeback, as Partridge Family teen idol David Cassidy is back 14 years on from I Think I Love You topping my charts. I still loved his singing style, enough for The Last Kiss to enter on one listen - and with George Michael on backing vocals (also a fan) it had that extra selling point. It’s breathy, builds, and is atmospheric, and I got all misty-eyed to have David back in the spotlight after a gap of 9 years. Aaahhh. At 66, Mick Jagger finally gets that solo hit as the dancerock of Just Another Night does what Bill Wyman managed 11 years earlier, charting without the rest of the Rolling Stones. A much more succesful, and even more veteran, solo singer singer keeps his looooooooong run of chart entries going at 72. No I don’t remember Heart User much either! Cliff, of course, was there when my charts began in 1968, was there through glam, disco and punk, happily revived during New Wave and New Romantic, and to be honest, had I had been charting as a toddler he would have featured then too, cos I can’t recall a time in my life when there wasn’t Cliff. I hope these current police allegations evaporate, certainly the various prosecuting authorities have seemed far less concerned (than the American authorities) in putting actual terrorists and organised gangs of paedophiles away than they are now chasing juicy expensive celebrity headline cases. I digress. At 75 it’s the Fink brothers chasing some Mutants from Mega-City One. That’ll be a disguised Suggs and Carl from Madness going all clubby Judge Dredd then! 1 ( NEW ) IT’S...IT’S...THE SWEET MIX The Sweet 2 ( 1 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 3 ( 3 ) I KNOW HIM SO WELL Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige 4 ( 4 ) I HEAR TALK Bucks Fizz 5 ( 2 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 6 ( 6 ) 1999/LITTLE RED CORVETTE Prince 7 ( 12 ) DANCING IN THE DARK Bruce Springsteen 8 ( 13 ) LOVE AND PRIDE King 9 ( 16 ) THIS IS NOT AMERICA David Bowie and The Pat Metheny Group 10 ( 8 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 11 ( 5 ) SAN DAMIANO (HEART AND SOUL) Sal Solo 12 ( 19 ) NIGHTSHIFT The Commodores 13 ( 18 ) LOVERBOY Billy Ocean 14 ( 25 ) 7 YEAR BITCH Slade 15 ( 22 ) SAY YEAH The Limit 16 ( 23 ) CLOSE (TO THE EDIT) The Art Of Noise 17 ( 7 ) SOLID Ashford and Simpson 18 ( 9 ) FRIENDS Amii Stewart 19 ( 17 ) THANK YOU MY LOVE Imagination 20 ( 20 ) YAH MO B THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 21 ( 11 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid 22 ( 14 ) LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS Wham! 23 ( 24 ) RUN TO YOU Bryan Adams 24 ( 27 ) WE BELONG Pat Benatar 25 ( 67 ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 26 ( 15 ) LIKE A VIRGIN Madonna 27 ( 39 ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 28 ( 10 ) IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO Bronski Beat 29 ( 40 ) CAN I Cashmere 30 ( NEW ) THIS HOUSE Big Sound Authority 31 ( 21 ) ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK Murray Head 32 ( 36 ) SEA OF LOVE The Honeydrippers 33 ( 35 ) METHOD OF MODERN LOVE Daryl Hall and John Oates 34 ( 44 ) THINKING OF YOU The Colourfield 35 ( 26 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 36 ( 62 ) JULIA Eurythmics 37 ( 29 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 38 ( 42 ) SUSSUDIO Phil Collins 39 ( 57 ) WORLD DESTRUCTION Time Zone 40 ( 30 ) SHARP DRESSED MAN Z.Z. TOP 41 ( 31 ) GHOSTBUSTERS Ray Parker Junior 42 ( 33 ) THIS IS MY NIGHT Chaka Khan 43 ( 32 ) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 44 ( 50 ) NEUTRON DANCE The Pointer Sisters 45 ( 60 ) “20/20” George Benson 46 ( 34 ) I FEEL FOR YOU Chaka Khan 47 ( 28 ) ANOTHER ROCK AND ROLL CHRISTMAS Gary Glitter 48 ( 65 ) THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER Howard Jones 49 ( 38 ) WE ALL STAND TOGETHER Paul McCartney and The Frog Chorus 50 ( 37 ) INVISIBLE Alison Moyet 51 ( NEW ) HEARTS ON FIRE Sam Harris 52 ( 52 ) YOU’RE THE INSPIRATION Chicago 53 ( 46 ) THE WILD BOYS Duran Duran 54 ( NEW ) MIDNIGHT MAN Flash And The Pan 55 ( 45 ) THE RIDDLE Nik Kershaw 56 ( NEW ) CALIFORNIA GIRLS David Lee Roth 57 ( NEW ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 58 ( 58 ) HOW SOON IS NOW The Smiths 59 ( RE ) TERRY Tracey Ullman 60 ( 41 ) SEE THAT GLOW This Island Earth 61 ( 71 ) IN THE EVENING Sheryl Lee Ralph 62 ( 48 ) I FEEL FINE The Beatles 63 ( 72 ) WE ARE THE YOUNG Dan Hartman 64 ( 56 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 65 ( 59 ) STEP OFF Grandmaster Melle Mel and The Furious Five 66 ( NEW ) JUST ANOTHER NIGHT Mick Jagger 67 ( 43 ) ATMOSPHERE Russ Abbott 68 ( 74 ) DO WHAT YOU DO Jermaine Jackson 69 ( 70 ) THE BELLE OF ST. MARK Sheila E 70 ( 66 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 71 ( 69 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 72 ( NEW ) HEART USER Cliff Richard 73 ( 64 ) I WON’T RUN AWAY Alvin Stardust 74 ( 63 ) LOUISE Human League 75 ( NEW ) MUTANTS IN MEGA CITY ONE The Fink Brothers TV: Feb 2nd - 8th 1985 1 Star Trek: Amok Time 2 Cheers 3 Sleeper: film 4 Hill Street Blues 5 Star Trek: Return Of The Archons 6 Top Of The Pops 7 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 8 Dallas 9 Spitting Image 10 Bewitched In the week that Leonard Nimoy died, it’s entirely fitting that I should be reviewing my TV chart for February 1985 when yet another re-run of Star Trek’s Spock highlight episode, Amok Time, was shown. Spock was a major hero of mine from age 11, and Leonard Nimoy equally as much, so it’s very sad to have to say goodbye, but if you want to see Leonard at his best, and a great Spock-centric TV episode, this is the one to go for. Spock gets struck by Pon-farr, the irresistible 7-year-mating-itch that becomes unscratchable for Vulcans. This is the one also featuring T’pau, High Priestess of the ceremony, and future UK chart-toppers. true fact. Elsewhere, Cheers and Hill Street Blues were firing on all-cylinders, both of them influentially, and Spitting Image was taking the pee out of politicians and celebrities. I hear it’s on the way back.... In my life: Bob & I had our merry banter on the Dorset highways at work, I decided to get a moped on HP so I could free myself from being a passenger, not quite having enough cash for Bob’s second-hand car and not keen to go into debt. In retrospect that was a big mistake, but hey ho, hindsight is a marvelous thing. Had another argument with the supervisor over his change of plans as to who was out on the road and who was driving, followed by me sulking and us nearly getting hit by a skidding car on the road-bend we were working on, Bob holding back from the bend in the van with warning lights. Kind of reinforced my question really! I got a sort-of apology. Bob & I decided to speed-up the job application exodus among colleagues. At home family problems I won’t mention (I pretty much never not have family issues), but mum and dad’s friends brought round a sweet little yorkie puppy, which they bought off them, pedigree and all. She was SO nervous being taken away from her mother, shaking like a leaf which upset me. Her name was Picket, in honour of the striking coal miners, of which my brother was one still. She gave mum and dad something good they could mutually focus on together, and did bring some joy, as well as being a constant pain in the arse when she got older for anyone babysitting through all the howling when mum and dad left her at home for any time. Win some lose some. |
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9th March 2015, 07:57 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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12th February 1985 2 weeks for Sweet on top as another oldie bangs in at 2, courtesy of a re-entry into the UK top 75 singles chart: Soft Cell and Tainted Love, a number one from 1981, and a genuine synth classic cover of the Gloria Jones northern soul track. It was a classic in 1981, in 1985, and still is. Marc Almond was into his solo career by this time, and Soft Cell alas were no more, as they had some right gems together. I saw Marc live the other year, and he wasn’t overly generous with the back-catalogue classics, which was a pity. Had I known he was going to do that I would have grabbed him in Gran Canaria about 10 years back when he stuck his head in the door of the bar I was sitting in, and suggested a) do your big hits in concert and b) do a cover of I’m Gonna Be Strong. After meandering up and down the chart for over 2 months Dead Or Alive suddenly rocket up 60 places to 4 with future club classic, and the real start of the big time for Stock Aitken Waterman as producers, You Spin Me Round. The tempo was unbelievably exciting, so frenetic was it. Fab. Not to be outdone, the late great Kirsty MacColl takes her wonderful version of Billy Bragg’s A New England to 5 with a big leap. Leaving Billy Ocean to grab his 4th top 10 hit in 10 years, and Trevor Horn his umpteenth in 10 months, as Art Of Noise hit 10. The top 20 gets a bit Adult Rock-ish with Pat Benatar, Bryan Adams and Don Henley all entering slowly, and rather less rapidly than they deserved. Flash And The Pan go top 30, as Midnight Man burns the midnight oil just ahead of an optimistic Howard Jones, and a welcome top 40 return from David Cassidy 9 years since the last time. Sam Harris meanwhile has an American hit, and enters my Top 40 with the Motown track Hearts On Fire. Classic Smiths also gets in at 40, How Soon Is Now also under-performing so far, so many great tracks to compete with. At 47, The Associates return 3 years after topping with the epic Party Fears Two, having a spot of Breakfast, ahead of returning Grandmaster Flash and Kool And The Gang, who confirm to me that that mysterious verb I read in books as a pre-teen, to misle, I misle, they misled me, wasn’t a verb at all, and it was pronounced Miss-Led. Harrumph! Willy Finlayson is a Scottish singer who’s guested with Manfred Mann’s Earthband, and is still a gigging musician, but he closest he got to the charts was in at 68, On The Air Tonight, a laid-back European hit. 4 years on since she immortalised Bette Davis’ eyes, Kim Carnes is also back at 71 with an invitation to dance, while a much less-friendly Killing Joke announce they have love like blood at 74. Ewww! On TV, the BRITS were on, for an evening of awards for Prince and the like, a bit shorter in those days I think. The show, not Prince. 1 ( 1 ) IT’S...IT’S...THE SWEET MIX The Sweet 2 ( NEW ) TAINTED LOVE Soft Cell 3 ( 8 ) LOVE AND PRIDE King 4 ( 64 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 5 ( 27 ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 6 ( 2 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 7 ( 3 ) I KNOW HIM SO WELL Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige 8 ( 9 ) THIS IS NOT AMERICA David Bowie and The Pat Metheny Group 9 ( 13 ) LOVERBOY Billy Ocean 10 ( 16 ) CLOSE (TO THE EDIT) The Art Of Noise 11 ( 5 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 12 ( 12 ) NIGHTSHIFT The Commodores 13 ( 14 ) 7 YEAR BITCH Slade 14 ( 4 ) I HEAR TALK Bucks Fizz 15 ( 6 ) 1999/LITTLE RED CORVETTE Prince 16 ( 7 ) DANCING IN THE DARK Bruce Springsteen 17 ( 24 ) WE BELONG Pat Benatar 18 ( 10 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 19 ( 23 ) RUN TO YOU Bryan Adams 20 ( 25 ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 21 ( 11 ) SAN DAMIANO (HEART AND SOUL) Sal Solo 22 ( 17 ) SOLID Ashford and Simpson 23 ( 20 ) YAH MO B THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 24 ( 30 ) THIS HOUSE Big Sound Authority 25 ( 18 ) FRIENDS Amii Stewart 26 ( 19 ) THANK YOU MY LOVE Imagination 27 ( 54 ) MIDNIGHT MAN Flash And The Pan 28 ( 48 ) THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER Howard Jones 29 ( 29 ) CAN I Cashmere 30 ( 34 ) THINKING OF YOU The Colourfield 31 ( 15 ) SAY YEAH The Limit 32 ( 22 ) LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS Wham! 33 ( 33 ) METHOD OF MODERN LOVE Daryl Hall and John Oates 34 ( 45 ) “20/20” George Benson 35 ( 38 ) SUSSUDIO Phil Collins 36 ( 57 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 37 ( 21 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid 38 ( 51 ) HEARTS ON FIRE Sam Harris 39 ( 26 ) LIKE A VIRGIN Madonna 40 ( 58 ) HOW SOON IS NOW The Smiths 41 ( 31 ) ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK Murray Head 42 ( 39 ) WORLD DESTRUCTION Time Zone 43 ( 66 ) JUST ANOTHER NIGHT Mick Jagger 44 ( 52 ) YOU’RE THE INSPIRATION Chicago 45 ( 35 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 46 ( 37 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 47 ( NEW ) BREAKFAST The Associates 48 ( NEW ) SIGN OF THE TIMES Grandmaster Flash 49 ( 56 ) CALIFORNIA GIRLS David Lee Roth 50 ( NEW ) MISLED Kool And The Gang 51 ( 32 ) SEA OF LOVE The Honeydrippers 52 ( 28 ) IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO Bronski Beat 53 ( 36 ) JULIA Eurythmics 54 ( 41 ) GHOSTBUSTERS Ray Parker Junior 55 ( 63 ) WE ARE THE YOUNG Dan Hartman 56 ( 43 ) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 57 ( 42 ) THIS IS MY NIGHT Chaka Khan 58 ( 55 ) THE RIDDLE Nik Kershaw 59 ( 68 ) DO WHAT YOU DO Jermaine Jackson 60 ( 53 ) THE WILD BOYS Duran Duran 61 ( 40 ) SHARP DRESSED MAN Z.Z. TOP 62 ( 44 ) NEUTRON DANCE The Pointer Sisters 63 ( 47 ) ANOTHER ROCK AND ROLL CHRISTMAS Gary Glitter 64 ( 50 ) INVISIBLE Alison Moyet 65 ( 72 ) HEART USER Cliff Richard 66 ( 49 ) WE ALL STAND TOGETHER Paul McCartney and The Frog Chorus 67 ( 69 ) THE BELLE OF ST. MARK Sheila E 68 ( NEW ) ON THE AIR TONIGHT Willy Finlayson 69 ( 75 ) MUTANTS IN MEGA CITY ONE The Fink Brothers 70 ( 70 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 71 ( NEW ) INVITATION TO DANCE Kim Carnes 72 ( NEW ) OPERATOR Floy Joy 73 ( 71 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 74 ( NEW ) LOVE LIKE BLOOD Killing Joke 75 ( NEW ) PERSONALITY Eugene Wilde TV Feb 9th to 15th 1 Star Trek: Who Mourns For Adonis 2 Cheers 3 Hill Street Blues 4 The Phil Silvers Show 5 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 6 Television 7 The BRITS 8 Bewitched 9 The Addams Family 10 Top Of The Pops Work along Dorset highways was much improved, as the boss was off sick, and I was getting all misty eyed for hits from 1973, wishing I could go back and do it right this time (eg, life). That I feel the same about my life generally still is a tad sad, lost opportunities and all that. Hey ho. Put me in the mood, though, for a trip in dad’s car to my old nostalgic haunting ground Gloucester, and Innsworth, where we moved in 1973, en route to Birmingham Bull Ring centre. I was fascinated by the cosmopolitan nature of kids in the comics shop there, and found big cities exciting and also a little daunting. Then I spent the weekend with Sue and Joe in Wolverhampton, catching up on stuff since we’d last met up in 1983. It snowed on and off all weekend, and especially heavily when I drove home, gale force freezing winds making it all a bit treacherous, not helped by unmarked diversions down minor country roads passing many motorists stuck in snowdrifts near Gillingham. Poole, of course, was snow free. It virtually never snows significantly round Poole harbour.... |
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10th March 2015, 08:55 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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19th February 1985
Dead Or Alive finally get on top, after months of meandering up and down the charts, the longest run to date before getting to number one (excluding reissues and re-entries), and it’s well-deserved for You Spin Me Round. Relax is back again, too, as Frankie Goes To Hollywood enter at 3, or re-enter, depending on how you view it. I see it as a completely new chart run though, it’s a new year, and it originally entered in 1983 before getting to 1 in 1984. Don Henley meanwhile gets his classic Boys Of Summer to 9, as his ex-band-mate Glen Frey enters with The Heat Is On at 69, while The Commodores hit 10, their first non-Lionel song to do that since Machine Gun in 1974. Highest proper new entry is The Boomtown Rats at 17, and the under-rated A Hold Of Me, one of their best singles in an 8-year run, and certainly not one of their biggest hits outside my charts. Mick Jagger goes top 40, as Prince grabs another double-A-sided hit, amazingly bundling two of the 3 best tracks on Purple Rain together, which means Let’s Go Crazy is back after a short run on it’s own in my charts, and Take Me With U debuts. Crazy is manic rock genius, Take Me With U is almost a non-Prince girlie chorus pop gem, catchy strings and all. Sadly, of course, no youtube videos so you’ll just have to take my word, and buy the album, which is a classic worthy of anyone’s collection. At 52, one of pop music’s unlikely collaborations, it’s Bill Sharpe of jazz-funk Shakatak and Gary Numan of decreasing commercial-pop-star fame experimental, melody-lite synth music. Well, waddya know, it’s fabulous, a career highlight for both, and high-time it was re-evaluated and pushed again in a film or advert. New Edition are back again, with the twee Mr. Telephone Man, at 56, and 14 years on Shaft returns to my charts - sadly not Isaac Hayes classic though, it’s an 80’s dance cover by Van Twist which pales in comparison even to the forthcoming rival hit cover version. ZZ Top are also back with the rocking Legs - that’ll be shapely lady legs of course, plus hot rod - at 65, while Cyndi Lauper is running out of album tracks to release as singles, Money Changes Everything not being the strongest, in at 70. Junior is back at 75, 3 years after debuting, with yet another Beverley Hills Cop soundtrack hit, and oh yes, there’s a Material Girl Marilyn Monroe wannabee at 73, getting her 5th chart hit. A bit of a departure for disco diva Madonna, can her career survive it? Stay tuned....! 1 ( 4 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 2 ( 2 ) TAINTED LOVE Soft Cell 3 ( NEW ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 4 ( 8 ) THIS IS NOT AMERICA David Bowie and The Pat Metheny Group 5 ( 3 ) LOVE AND PRIDE King 6 ( 1 ) IT’S...IT’S...THE SWEET MIX The Sweet 7 ( 5 ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 8 ( 7 ) I KNOW HIM SO WELL Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige 9 ( 20 ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 10 ( 12 ) NIGHTSHIFT The Commodores 11 ( 6 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 12 ( 10 ) CLOSE (TO THE EDIT) The Art Of Noise 13 ( 17 ) WE BELONG Pat Benatar 14 ( 9 ) LOVERBOY Billy Ocean 15 ( 19 ) RUN TO YOU Bryan Adams 16 ( 28 ) THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER Howard Jones 17 ( NEW ) A HOLD OF ME The Boomtown Rats 18 ( 11 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 19 ( 15 ) 1999/LITTLE RED CORVETTE Prince 20 ( 27 ) MIDNIGHT MAN Flash And The Pan 21 ( 16 ) DANCING IN THE DARK Bruce Springsteen 22 ( 18 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 23 ( 24 ) THIS HOUSE Big Sound Authority 24 ( 22 ) SOLID Ashford and Simpson 25 ( 14 ) I HEAR TALK Bucks Fizz 26 ( 40 ) HOW SOON IS NOW The Smiths 27 ( 34 ) “20/20” George Benson 28 ( 43 ) JUST ANOTHER NIGHT Mick Jagger 29 ( NEW ) LET’S GO CRAZY/ TAKE ME WITH U Prince 30 ( 35 ) SUSSUDIO Phil Collins 31 ( 13 ) 7 YEAR BITCH Slade 32 ( 36 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 33 ( 33 ) METHOD OF MODERN LOVE Daryl Hall and John Oates 34 ( 38 ) HEARTS ON FIRE Sam Harris 35 ( 21 ) SAN DAMIANO (HEART AND SOUL) Sal Solo 36 ( 49 ) CALIFORNIA GIRLS David Lee Roth 37 ( 50 ) MISLED Kool And The Gang 38 ( 44 ) YOU’RE THE INSPIRATION Chicago 39 ( 25 ) FRIENDS Amii Stewart 40 ( 23 ) YAH MO B THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 41 ( 26 ) THANK YOU MY LOVE Imagination 42 ( 42 ) WORLD DESTRUCTION Time Zone 43 ( 29 ) CAN I Cashmere 44 ( 32 ) LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS Wham! 45 ( 37 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid 46 ( 48 ) SIGN OF THE TIMES Grandmaster Flash 47 ( 31 ) SAY YEAH The Limit 48 ( 30 ) THINKING OF YOU The Colourfield 49 ( 65 ) HEART USER Cliff Richard 50 ( 45 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 51 ( 39 ) LIKE A VIRGIN Madonna 52 ( NEW ) CHANGE YOUR MIND Bill Sharpe and Gary Numan 53 ( 46 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 54 ( 55 ) WE ARE THE YOUNG Dan Hartman 55 ( 59 ) DO WHAT YOU DO Jermaine Jackson 56 ( NEW ) MR. TELEPHONE MAN New Edition 57 ( 47 ) BREAKFAST The Associates 58 ( 68 ) ON THE AIR TONIGHT Willy Finlayson 59 ( 41 ) ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK Murray Head 60 ( 69 ) MUTANTS IN MEGA CITY ONE The Fink Brothers 61 ( 74 ) LOVE LIKE BLOOD Killing Joke 62 ( 75 ) PERSONALITY Eugene Wilde 63 ( NEW ) SHAFT Van Twist 64 ( 60 ) THE WILD BOYS Duran Duran 65 ( NEW ) LEGS ZZ Top 66 ( 56 ) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY Wizzard 67 ( 67 ) THE BELLE OF ST. MARK Sheila E 68 ( 58 ) THE RIDDLE Nik Kershaw 69 ( NEW ) THE HEAT IS ON Glen Frey 70 ( NEW ) MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING Cyndi Lauper 71 ( NEW ) WHO COMES TO BOOGIE Little Benny And The Masters 72 ( 70 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 73 ( NEW ) MATERIAL GIRL Madonna 74 ( 73 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 75 ( NEW ) DO YOU REALLY (WANT MY LOVE) Junior TV Feb 16-22 1 The Young Ones: Nasty 2 Cheers 3 Hill Street Blues 4 The Phil Silvers Show 5 An American Werewolf In London: film 6 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 7 Bewitched 8 Doctor Who: The Two Doctors 9 Newhart 10 Top Of The Pops 11 The Addams Family 12 Grange Hill 13 The Bill Cosby Show 14 My World And Welcome To It 15 The Rockford Files On TV, a great horror movie, An American Werewolf In London, John Landis and state of the art effects, while my fave Doctor Who Patrick Troughton makes his final appearance as guest return with new Doctor Colin Baker (sadly it was a bit gruesome in subject-matter, though compensated for by Frazier Hines returning as Jamie, a little). Oh, and My world And Welcome To It gets it’s final ever broadcast on TV, a great arty gentle sitcom based on the cartoons and humour of James Thurber, with a great cast and long list of guest stars despite lasting only one season in 1969/70, and despite winning two Emmy’s. It was a show I liked a lot in Singapore. In life, Bob came round for an evening of pop chat, (BRITS awards on the Monday, with Bob Geldof giving politicians what-for no-holds-barred). This was appropriate because I went to my first concert alone: The Boomtown Rats at Poole Arts Centre Feb 14th 1985. A young crowd, male-biased, and late teens, early 20’s, and chose to avoid back-ache standing by getting a seat upstairs. Bob and the Rats did mostly new stuff from the In The Long Grass album, and a sprinkling of hits, the highlights were Someone’s Looking At You, Rat Trap, Drag Me Down, Dave, A Hold Of Me and Elephant’s Graveyard as they set off on a furious pace, despite poor sound quality in a 1hour 20 minute set. The final encore, Do They Know It’s Christmas, was introduced by Bob suggesting anyone who hadn’t bought it “ought to be ashamed of themselves”. Happily I had. Phew! I was very impressed, Bob never let up “carrying the whole shebang with wit and charisma, his new songs sounding good, and just a shame hardly any oldies. The Rats were perfectly wonderful. Energetic, lively show.” I got home at 10.30 and kicked the puppy across the room. Not deliberately, I hasten to add, I just didn’t see her come to welcome me - not used to having a dog in the house! |
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12th March 2015, 07:54 PM
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26th February 1985
2 weeks for Dead Or Alive at 1, as yet another (superior) dance cover of Isaac Hayes classic Shaft pops in at 3, outdoing the original’s peak first time round (second time round it hit 1 on my oldies charts). It’s not bad, but not as good as supercool Isaac obviously. Meanwhile David Cassidy (and George Michael) shoots up to 4, his highest chart position since I’m A Clown hit 3 in 1973, showing he was firmly back emoting a ballad in his own unique endearing style. Howard Jones adds to his growing list of top 10’s, as well, ooh, must be his 6th in a row! Prince and Mick Jagger go top 20, Hall and Oates, and Sharpe and Numan go top 30, and second highest new entry is Philip’s Bailey and Collins at 37, with Easy Lover. That concludes the list of male duos. Easy Lover was essentially Earth Wind & Fire (Bailey being co-lead-vocalist) done Collins funk style, and was a huge hit, though I’ve never really warmed back to it since I overdosed on it in 1985. Pleasant enough though. Other new entries: The Stranglers are back, 8 years on, Tina Turner covers Ann Peebles, and becomes the second cover to chart, after Eruption’s much-better eurodisco thumper hit my 3 in 1978. Elton also sneaks in, with a ballad, Breaking Hearts tail-ending the album’s run of singles and giving him 14 years of chart activity, consecutive years too. 1 ( 1 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 2 ( 3 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 3 ( NEW ) SHAFT Eddy And The Soul Band 4 ( 32 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 5 ( 5 ) LOVE AND PRIDE King 6 ( 9 ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 7 ( 4 ) THIS IS NOT AMERICA David Bowie and The Pat Metheny Group 8 ( 7 ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 9 ( 2 ) TAINTED LOVE Soft Cell 10 ( 16 ) THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER Howard Jones 11 ( 8 ) I KNOW HIM SO WELL Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige 12 ( 15 ) RUN TO YOU Bryan Adams 13 ( 6 ) IT’S...IT’S...THE SWEET MIX The Sweet 14 ( 20 ) MIDNIGHT MAN Flash And The Pan 15 ( 28 ) JUST ANOTHER NIGHT Mick Jagger 16 ( 29 ) LET’S GO CRAZY/ TAKE ME WITH U Prince 17 ( 17 ) A HOLD OF ME The Boomtown Rats 18 ( 10 ) NIGHTSHIFT The Commodores 19 ( 12 ) CLOSE (TO THE EDIT) The Art Of Noise 20 ( 14 ) LOVERBOY Billy Ocean 21 ( 13 ) WE BELONG Pat Benatar 22 ( 11 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 23 ( 19 ) 1999/LITTLE RED CORVETTE Prince 24 ( 18 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 25 ( 27 ) “20/20” George Benson 26 ( 26 ) HOW SOON IS NOW The Smiths 27 ( 42 ) WORLD DESTRUCTION Time Zone 28 ( 33 ) METHOD OF MODERN LOVE Daryl Hall and John Oates 29 ( 52 ) CHANGE YOUR MIND Bill Sharpe and Gary Numan 30 ( 24 ) SOLID Ashford and Simpson 31 ( 23 ) THIS HOUSE Big Sound Authority 32 ( 37 ) MISLED Kool And The Gang 33 ( 21 ) DANCING IN THE DARK Bruce Springsteen 34 ( 34 ) HEARTS ON FIRE Sam Harris 35 ( 22 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 36 ( 36 ) CALIFORNIA GIRLS David Lee Roth 37 ( NEW ) EASY LOVER Philip Bailey and Phil Collins 38 ( 38 ) YOU’RE THE INSPIRATION Chicago 39 ( 30 ) SUSSUDIO Phil Collins 40 ( 25 ) I HEAR TALK Bucks Fizz 41 ( 65 ) LEGS ZZ Top 42 ( 71 ) WHO COMES TO BOOGIE Little Benny And The Masters 43 ( 61 ) LOVE LIKE BLOOD Killing Joke 44 ( 55 ) DO WHAT YOU DO Jermaine Jackson 45 ( 35 ) SAN DAMIANO (HEART AND SOUL) Sal Solo 46 ( 56 ) MR. TELEPHONE MAN New Edition 47 ( 45 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid 48 ( 50 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 49 ( 62 ) PERSONALITY Eugene Wilde 50 ( 60 ) MUTANTS IN MEGA CITY ONE The Fink Brothers 51 ( 40 ) YAH MO B THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 52 ( 44 ) LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS Wham! 53 ( 39 ) FRIENDS Amii Stewart 54 ( 67 ) THE BELLE OF ST. MARK Sheila E 55 ( 31 ) 7 YEAR BITCH Slade 56 ( 69 ) THE HEAT IS ON Glen Frey 57 ( 53 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 58 ( 41 ) THANK YOU MY LOVE Imagination 59 ( 73 ) MATERIAL GIRL Madonna 60 ( NEW ) LAY ME DOWN EASY The Stranglers 61 ( 43 ) CAN I Cashmere 62 ( NEW ) CONTRACT OF THE HEART Spelt Like This 63 ( 51 ) LIKE A VIRGIN Madonna 64 ( 49 ) HEART USER Cliff Richard 65 ( 59 ) ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK Murray Head 66 ( 70 ) MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING Cyndi Lauper 67 ( 75 ) DO YOU REALLY (WANT MY LOVE) Junior 68 ( 68 ) THE RIDDLE Nik Kershaw 69 ( NEW ) I CAN’T STAND THE RAIN Tina Turner 70 ( 64 ) THE WILD BOYS Duran Duran 71 ( NEW ) BREAKING HEARTS Elton John 72 ( 63 ) SHAFT Van Twist 73 ( 72 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 74 ( 46 ) SIGN OF THE TIMES Grandmaster Flash 75 ( 74 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba TV 26th Feb - 1st Mar 1 Cheers 2 Hill Street Blues 3 The Phil Silvers Show 4 Rising Damp 5 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 6 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers: film 7 Top Of The Pops 8 Bewitched 9 Doctor Who: The Two Doctors 10 The Addams Family At work, our boss supervisor was becoming increasingly paranoid about everyone, mostly because he was useless, and one of the few people I’ve met in my life that I have little sympathy for. Colin and Monic were part of the exodus of employees as others were applying elsewhere for jobs. Madman critcised Bob for being slow, which annoyed him and me. Pot calling kettle. Parents went to Mansfield for the weekend and took the cat and dog. Started my back catalogue trawling for non-succesful USA pop bands of the 60’s buying 20 Greatest Hits of Gary Lewis and The Playboys, son of Jerry Lewis, and little-known gems on there too. Played it a lot. |
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22nd March 2015, 03:33 PM
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BuzzJack Platinum Member
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YES!!!!! Dead Or Alive at 1 probably my all time favourite record. Quite like the Shaft cover as well. I seem to recall my parents having the 12 inch. Also, Kirsty's A New England never dates for me, a true gem.
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22nd March 2015, 09:45 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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YES!!!!! Dead Or Alive at 1 probably my all time favourite record. Quite like the Shaft cover as well. I seem to recall my parents having the 12 inch. Also, Kirsty's A New England never dates for me, a true gem. Thanks AH true classic, still famous, thats always a good sign! Love Kirsty still, myself, too |
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18th April 2015, 03:32 PM
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5th March 1985
New number one for David Cassidy (and uncredited George Michael), The last Kiss being his 4th in total and first solo number one since his 3 toppers with The Partridge Family in 1971 and 1972 (it counts because they were all “featuring David Cassidy” credits). George’s doesn’t count, sadly, otherwise it would have been his 3rd. It’s very George Michael ballad-style, it has to be said, but the way it builds to a iamspamspamamisink and all climax is terrific. Prince gets his 4th or 5th or 6th Top 10, depending on how you judge the reissued single of 2 previous top tenners, and the double A delight of Take Me With U and Let’s Go Crazy, both of which are strong enough to have had independent runs in the 10. Then there’s Chaka Khan’s I Feel For You, and new at 75 it’s a Prince song and production for UK sweetheart Sheena Easton, and UK flop because it’s very very naughty lyrically, going on as it does about the spending night inside Sheena’s Sugar Walls. Turns out she IS a Modern Girl after all (and Sugar Walls is fab). Jagger gets his one and only solo top 10 track, Just Another Night, in which he moves like Jagger in the dance video, and gives him actual 16 years of top 10’s (the rest with The Stones or Bowie). John Lydon is also back in the top 20 under another name, Time Zone, with Afrika Bambaata, and some World Destruction, a sort of rock/hip-hop fusion ahead of it’s time, just ahead of a synth/jazz fusion from Sharpe & Numan. This one was less influential, sadly, as it’s great. At 20 the Smiths How Soon Is Now under-performs again, as it’s brilliance takes time to sink in properly, those riffs, oohhhh just magic. Highest new entry is Shaky. 31. I feel I should have some exclamation marks attached, as it’s not one anyone recalls, and it’s not from the 50’s or 60’s, but actually it’s not bad at all. Matt Bianco enter with another cool jazz number at 38, and it’s not more than I can bear, and although I may not want to kiss Stephen Duffy, it’s a good pop track at 40. The classic is at 44, though, the GORGEOUS Cry, from Godley & Creme, ex-10CC members and video innovators, on the single where it all came together as they morphed a world of faces into each other in the video showcasing a brilliant affecting synth ballad that was even better than previous topper Under Your Thumb (1981) and most of 10CC’s brilliant output. Alvin Stardust is back again, 12 years in, with Got A Little Heartache at 58, The Bluebells are new at 59 with one I’ve forgotten, David Essex is also 12 years in and singing of Fallen Angels Riding at 65, while British soul shows it’s as good as the US with Loose Ends terrific Hanging On A String at 68. Finally Eddy Grant is back again with Baby Come Back, sadly he never did get the UK number one with his own reggae version of his own band’s UK 1968 number one - that was to be years away, and Pato Banton with UB40 who did that. 1 ( 4 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 2 ( 1 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 3 ( 3 ) SHAFT Eddy And The Soul Band 4 ( 6 ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 5 ( 16 ) LET’S GO CRAZY/ TAKE ME WITH U Prince 6 ( 5 ) LOVE AND PRIDE King 7 ( 2 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 8 ( 10 ) THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER Howard Jones 9 ( 15 ) JUST ANOTHER NIGHT Mick Jagger 10 ( 7 ) THIS IS NOT AMERICA David Bowie and The Pat Metheny Group 11 ( 8 ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 12 ( 11 ) I KNOW HIM SO WELL Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige 13 ( 14 ) MIDNIGHT MAN Flash And The Pan 14 ( 27 ) WORLD DESTRUCTION Time Zone 15 ( 29 ) CHANGE YOUR MIND Bill Sharpe and Gary Numan 16 ( 9 ) TAINTED LOVE Soft Cell 17 ( 13 ) IT’S...IT’S...THE SWEET MIX The Sweet 18 ( 18 ) NIGHTSHIFT The Commodores 19 ( 20 ) LOVERBOY Billy Ocean 20 ( 26 ) HOW SOON IS NOW The Smiths 21 ( 12 ) RUN TO YOU Bryan Adams 22 ( 28 ) METHOD OF MODERN LOVE Daryl Hall and John Oates 23 ( 19 ) CLOSE (TO THE EDIT) The Art Of Noise 24 ( 23 ) 1999/LITTLE RED CORVETTE Prince 25 ( 37 ) EASY LOVER Philip Bailey and Phil Collins 26 ( 38 ) YOU’RE THE INSPIRATION Chicago 27 ( 22 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 28 ( 32 ) MISLED Kool And The Gang 29 ( 17 ) A HOLD OF ME The Boomtown Rats 30 ( 24 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 31 ( NEW ) BREAKING UP MY HEART Shakin’ Stevens 32 ( 30 ) SOLID Ashford and Simpson 33 ( 42 ) WHO COMES TO BOOGIE Little Benny And The Masters 34 ( 21 ) WE BELONG Pat Benatar 35 ( 33 ) DANCING IN THE DARK Bruce Springsteen 36 ( 41 ) LEGS ZZ Top 37 ( 44 ) DO WHAT YOU DO Jermaine Jackson 38 ( NEW ) MORE THAN I CAN BEAR Matt Bianco 39 ( 46 ) MR. TELEPHONE MAN New Edition 40 ( NEW ) KISS ME Stephen ‘Tintin’ Duffy 41 ( 31 ) THIS HOUSE Big Sound Authority 42 ( 35 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 43 ( 43 ) LOVE LIKE BLOOD Killing Joke 44 ( NEW ) CRY Godley And Creme 45 ( 59 ) MATERIAL GIRL Madonna 46 ( 56 ) THE HEAT IS ON Glen Frey 47 ( 40 ) I HEAR TALK Bucks Fizz 48 ( 62 ) CONTRACT OF THE HEART Spelt Like This 49 ( 34 ) HEARTS ON FIRE Sam Harris 50 ( 36 ) CALIFORNIA GIRLS David Lee Roth 51 ( 39 ) SUSSUDIO Phil Collins 52 ( 48 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 53 ( 25 ) “20/20” George Benson 54 ( 54 ) THE BELLE OF ST. MARK Sheila E 55 ( 71 ) BREAKING HEARTS Elton John 56 ( 47 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid 57 ( 45 ) SAN DAMIANO (HEART AND SOUL) Sal Solo 58 ( NEW ) GOT A LITTLE HEARTACHE Alvin Stardust 59 ( NEW ) ALL I AM (IS LOVING YOU) The Bluebells 60 ( 60 ) LAY ME DOWN EASY The Stranglers 61 ( 52 ) LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS Wham! 62 ( 69 ) I CAN’T STAND THE RAIN Tina Turner 63 ( 57 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 64 ( 66 ) MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING Cyndi Lauper 65 ( NEW ) FALLEN ANGELS RIDING David Essex 66 ( 53 ) FRIENDS Amii Stewart 67 ( 51 ) YAH MO B THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 68 ( NEW ) HANGING ON A STRING Loose Ends 69 ( 65 ) ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK Murray Head 70 ( NEW ) BABY COME BACK Eddy Grant 71 ( 58 ) THANK YOU MY LOVE Imagination 72 ( NEW ) NO FOOL (FOR LOVE) Hazell Dean 73 ( 73 ) LOST IN MUSIC Sister Sledge 74 ( NEW ) STARVATION Starvation 75 ( NEW ) SUGAR WALLS Sheena Easton TV Mar 2nd-8th 1 Airplane: film 2 Cheers 3 Top Of The Pops 4 The Phil Silvers Show 5 Hill Street Blues 6 Calamity Jane: film 7 Bewitched 8 The Addams Family 9 Grange Hill 10 QED At work, the paranoia of our boss was coming out in all sorts of odd stroppy unreasonable behaviour, all based on insecurity. Psychiatrists would have had a field day with him. I think he was terrified we would apply for the supervisor job which was now vacant and which he was going for. To be fair, I was so pissed off with him, I also DID apply for it just to stir things up for being such a tw*t. Hey ho, I react badly anyone ordering me to do things - I’ll go out of my way if someone asks nicely, but I have no respect for command-statements or anyone making them. On sunday, the Miner’s strike ended. This meant my brother could have a job again - temporarily until they closed his pit, along with every other single coal mine in the Mansfield area. Essentially, it was a community of scabs and strikers forever more, Thatcher won because the miners were split by Scargill’s confrontational attitude and lack of democracy, and Thatcher’s bold-faced lies and promises not close all pits. That’s exactly what happened, and as a consequence the UK’s unions were pretty much made toothless from here on, the government and the rich manipulating political elite had won, and in the long run (despite periods of prosperity for large parts of the nation, but not all) the seeds were sown for the catastrophic policies which led to the crash of 2008, and the rich who had caused it laughing their tits off at the poor who ended up paying for it (quite literally). Moral: greedy rich people will always take opportunities to line their own pockets even if it’s illegal, immoral and devastating to the well-being of others. This is why, we have checks and balances on them. The ones that Thatcher removed as big banks turned into nation-shafting mega-corporations, and everything came down to short-term profit, not long-term usefulness. Of course, I may be biased.... |
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20th April 2015, 06:57 PM
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12th March 1985 2 weeks for David on top, as Shakin’ Stevens gets his 3rd Top 10 record, Breaking Up My Heart not being one of his best-remembered, so judge for yourself on youtube...! Sharpe & Numan hit 8, Gary’s first top 10 since 1980 and his 6th in total, Bill’s 2nd. Matt Bianco get their first, surprisingly, with one of their minor hits, which is More Than I Can Bear, as do ZZ Top, proving they have Legs. I know I’m repeating myself, there, but hey, repeat till you get a laugh is my motto. After pottering around the lower end, suddenly Madonna leaps to 11 with Material Girl and her 3rd biggest hit to date, while Earth, Wind & Genesis hit 12 - sort of - with Easy Lover. Highest new entry is Nik Kershaw, back with his 4th top 20, a bit of a Wide Boy it seems, but he was on a streak after seeing him in concert a few months previous. New Edition also get a top 20 entry again, 2 years since Candy Girl, while Alison Moyet covers a blues standard, an abrupt change in musical direction that worked for her, That Ole Devil Called Love entering at 26 for a 4th solo hit. New at 35, Go West debut with the memorable We Close Our Eyes, while Starvation go up to 37 - as it sounds, it’s a charity regage single by members of the Specials, UB40, The Pioneers and Madness. In the case of The Pioneers that’s the first new stuff to chart since 1972. David Essex has less problems charting regularly, as his run of top 40 hits hits 12 years, Fallen Angels Riding at 38, Sheila E hits 40 with a little help from her friend (Prince), and Diana Ross enters at 39 with her Lionel Richie-written Missing You, a tribute to her late former Motown singing partners, Marvin Gaye, Florence Ballard and Paul Williams (of The Supremes, and The Temptations). In a nice bit of timing, Ali Campbell of UB40 does the bulk of the vocals on the Starvation record, and this week (April 2015) enters my chart with his version of the Diana Ross track. That leaves new tracks from Eric Clapton (13 years on from Layla), The Cars (7 years on from My Best Friend’s Girl), Joan Armatrading (9 years since Love And Affection), and newer acts Paul Young, The fab Kane Gang track Gun Law, REO Speedwagon (former chart-toppers in 1981), Bryan Adams, China Crisis, and Julian Lennon. 1 ( 1 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 2 ( 2 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 3 ( 3 ) SHAFT Eddy And The Soul Band 4 ( 5 ) LET’S GO CRAZY/ TAKE ME WITH U Prince 5 ( 4 ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 6 ( 31 ) BREAKING UP MY HEART Shakin’ Stevens 7 ( 9 ) JUST ANOTHER NIGHT Mick Jagger 8 ( 15 ) CHANGE YOUR MIND Bill Sharpe and Gary Numan 9 ( 38 ) MORE THAN I CAN BEAR Matt Bianco 10 ( 36 ) LEGS ZZ Top 11 ( 45 ) MATERIAL GIRL Madonna 12 ( 25 ) EASY LOVER Philip Bailey and Phil Collins 13 ( 6 ) LOVE AND PRIDE King 14 ( 11 ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 15 ( 22 ) METHOD OF MODERN LOVE Daryl Hall and John Oates 16 ( 8 ) THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER Howard Jones 17 ( NEW ) WIDE BOY Nik Kershaw 18 ( 10 ) THIS IS NOT AMERICA David Bowie and The Pat Metheny Group 19 ( 39 ) MR. TELEPHONE MAN New Edition 20 ( 18 ) NIGHTSHIFT The Commodores 21 ( 7 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 22 ( 12 ) I KNOW HIM SO WELL Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige 23 ( 37 ) DO WHAT YOU DO Jermaine Jackson 24 ( 40 ) KISS ME Stephen ‘Tintin’ Duffy 25 ( 17 ) IT’S...IT’S...THE SWEET MIX The Sweet 26 ( NEW ) THAT OLE DEVIL CALLED LOVE Alison Moyet 27 ( 14 ) WORLD DESTRUCTION Time Zone 28 ( 33 ) WHO COMES TO BOOGIE Little Benny And The Masters 29 ( 19 ) LOVERBOY Billy Ocean 30 ( 48 ) CONTRACT OF THE HEART Spelt Like This 31 ( 16 ) TAINTED LOVE Soft Cell 32 ( 13 ) MIDNIGHT MAN Flash And The Pan 33 ( 24 ) 1999/LITTLE RED CORVETTE Prince 34 ( 68 ) HANGING ON A STRING Loose Ends 35 ( NEW ) WE CLOSE OUR EYES Go West 36 ( 26 ) YOU’RE THE INSPIRATION Chicago 37 ( 74 ) STARVATION Starvation 38 ( 65 ) FALLEN ANGELS RIDING David Essex 39 ( NEW ) MISSING YOU Diana Ross 40 ( 54 ) THE BELLE OF ST. MARK Sheila E 41 ( 27 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 42 ( 30 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 43 ( 44 ) CRY Godley And Creme 44 ( 21 ) RUN TO YOU Bryan Adams 45 ( 32 ) SOLID Ashford and Simpson 46 ( 46 ) THE HEAT IS ON Glen Frey 47 ( 23 ) CLOSE (TO THE EDIT) The Art Of Noise 48 ( NEW ) FOREVER MAN Eric Clapton 49 ( 58 ) GOT A LITTLE HEARTACHE Alvin Stardust 50 ( 55 ) BREAKING HEARTS Elton John 51 ( 20 ) HOW SOON IS NOW The Smiths 52 ( 72 ) NO FOOL (FOR LOVE) Hazell Dean 53 ( 35 ) DANCING IN THE DARK Bruce Springsteen 54 ( 75 ) SUGAR WALLS Sheena Easton 55 ( 28 ) MISLED Kool And The Gang 56 ( 34 ) WE BELONG Pat Benatar 57 ( NEW ) WHY CAN’T I HAVE YOU The Cars 58 ( 29 ) A HOLD OF ME The Boomtown Rats 59 ( 70 ) BABY COME BACK Eddy Grant 60 ( 52 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 61 ( 42 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 62 ( NEW ) TEMPTATION Joan Armatrading 63 ( 47 ) I HEAR TALK Bucks Fizz 64 ( NEW ) EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY Paul Young 65 ( NEW ) GUN LAW The Kane Gang 66 ( NEW ) CAN’T FIGHT THIS FEELING REO Speedwagon 67 ( 63 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 68 ( 43 ) LOVE LIKE BLOOD Killing Joke 69 ( 62 ) I CAN’T STAND THE RAIN Tina Turner 70 ( 56 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid 71 ( NEW ) SOMEBODY Bryan Adams 72 ( NEW ) BLACK MAN RAY China Crisis 73 ( 69 ) ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK Murray Head 74 ( 61 ) LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS Wham! 75 ( NEW ) SAY YOU’RE WRONG Julian Lennon TV March 9th-15th 1 Cheers 2 Hill Street Blues 3 Bewitched 4 Top Of The Pops 5 The Phil Silvers Show 6 The Addams Family 7 The Bill Cosby Show 8 The Other Side Of The Tracks 9 Entertainment USA 10 Night Court At work, my rather depressed and stressed state not helped by our flashing lights on the van not stopping a lady driver having an accident (pulling out of a junction into an oncoming car) by not taking care in the vicinity of our surveying on a bendy country road. Thursday was interview day at Dorchester County Council for a computing job, which was heavily maths based (failed the tough 1 hour algebra exam along with some other candidates). Watched Calamity Jane on TV as consolation! My other consolation was to buy myself a new spanky MSX music computer, the £529 clearing out my savings, but I saw it as a way of trying to get into creating music. Unfortunately I hadn’t reckoned on MSX computers flopping, on having no way of saving any recordings except onto pitiful slow cassette tape (as computer signals, NOT quality audio recordings), and me having no real training or obsession with learning how to play keyboards. Total waste of money, as I was pretty much 20 years too early for bedroom knob twiddling. Hey ho. |
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20th April 2015, 09:48 PM
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19th March 1985 3 weeks for Dave on top, now equalling his Partridge Family runs at 1, and straight in at 2, it’s a re-issue of the fab 1978 reggae cover of the O’Jays Now That We’ve Found Love, in one swoop out-peaking it’s previous top 10 run. In at 5, though, and an instant 4th top 5 hit, it’s the epic Tears For Fears track, Everybody Wants To Rule The World, for my money a perfect pop song, there is no way it can be improved on (as was shown by the charity remix in 1986). The chords, the melody, the multiple hooks, the guitar, the synths, the vocals, perfect perfect perfect start to finish, I still love, and have never ever stopped loving, every second of it. Overshadowing another classic, though, Godley & Creme get a third top 5 record outside of 10CC, as Cry rockets to 4, and Madonna makes it 3 top 10’s. in at 31, Frankie are back with the 4th great single in a row, the title track from Welcome To The Pleasure Dome, and it seemed as though their Trevor Horn epics could do no wrong, and the world was theirs. Sadly, they decided Trevor Horn wasn’t essential. Bad choice. Into the 40, The Kane Gang and Sheena Easton are up, not to mention Eric, Paul and The Cars. At 47, it’s a cover of Bruce’s still-charting Dancing In The Dark - done 50’s harmony style by Big Daddy, a band who made a habit of covering modern songs in old music styles, to great effect. It’s a great cover, and nothing like the original in any way! At 60, another great cover, albeit very like the original Detroit Spinners 1972/3 hit, Could It Be I’m Falling In Love had already charted in 1973 and 1977 and David Grant, ex-Linx, and Jaki Graham do a fab smooth 80’s soul version version. Elsewhere: Billy Bragg, Barry Manilow and Dionne Warwick (both a decade on from debuting), a fab Slade song 14 years on, Junior, and The Power Station (Robert Palmer plus Duran) all enter. 1 ( 1 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 2 ( NEW ) NOW THAT WE’VE FOUND LOVE Third World 3 ( 4 ) LET’S GO CRAZY/ TAKE ME WITH U Prince 4 ( 43 ) CRY Godley And Creme 5 ( NEW ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 6 ( 6 ) BREAKING UP MY HEART Shakin’ Stevens 7 ( 10 ) LEGS ZZ Top 8 ( 9 ) MORE THAN I CAN BEAR Matt Bianco 9 ( 2 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 10 ( 11 ) MATERIAL GIRL Madonna 11 ( 17 ) WIDE BOY Nik Kershaw 12 ( 12 ) EASY LOVER Philip Bailey and Phil Collins 13 ( 3 ) SHAFT Eddy And The Soul Band 14 ( 5 ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 15 ( 24 ) KISS ME Stephen ‘Tintin’ Duffy 16 ( 8 ) CHANGE YOUR MIND Bill Sharpe and Gary Numan 17 ( 7 ) JUST ANOTHER NIGHT Mick Jagger 18 ( 19 ) MR. TELEPHONE MAN New Edition 19 ( 26 ) THAT OLE DEVIL CALLED LOVE Alison Moyet 20 ( 23 ) DO WHAT YOU DO Jermaine Jackson 21 ( 34 ) HANGING ON A STRING Loose Ends 22 ( 15 ) METHOD OF MODERN LOVE Daryl Hall and John Oates 23 ( 14 ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 24 ( 40 ) THE BELLE OF ST. MARK Sheila E 25 ( 13 ) LOVE AND PRIDE King 26 ( 30 ) CONTRACT OF THE HEART Spelt Like This 27 ( 35 ) WE CLOSE OUR EYES Go West 28 ( 39 ) MISSING YOU Diana Ross 29 ( 38 ) FALLEN ANGELS RIDING David Essex 30 ( 37 ) STARVATION Starvation 31 ( NEW ) WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE DOME Frankie Goes To Hollywood 32 ( 16 ) THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER Howard Jones 33 ( 20 ) NIGHTSHIFT The Commodores 34 ( 18 ) THIS IS NOT AMERICA David Bowie and The Pat Metheny Group 35 ( 66 ) GUN LAW The Kane Gang 36 ( 54 ) SUGAR WALLS Sheena Easton 37 ( 25 ) IT’S...IT’S...THE SWEET MIX The Sweet 38 ( 48 ) FOREVER MAN Eric Clapton 39 ( 65 ) EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY Paul Young 40 ( 57 ) WHY CAN’T I HAVE YOU The Cars 41 ( 71 ) SOMEBODY Bryan Adams 42 ( 22 ) I KNOW HIM SO WELL Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige 43 ( 63 ) TEMPTATION Joan Armatrading 44 ( 21 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 45 ( 50 ) BREAKING HEARTS Elton John 46 ( 33 ) 1999/LITTLE RED CORVETTE Prince 47 ( NEW ) DANCING IN THE DARK Big Daddy 48 ( 31 ) TAINTED LOVE Soft Cell 49 ( 52 ) NO FOOL (FOR LOVE) Hazell Dean 50 ( 72 ) BLACK MAN RAY China Crisis 51 ( 29 ) LOVERBOY Billy Ocean 52 ( 41 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 53 ( 42 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 54 ( 67 ) CAN’T FIGHT THIS FEELING REO Speedwagon 55 ( 49 ) GOT A LITTLE HEARTACHE Alvin Stardust 56 ( 27 ) WORLD DESTRUCTION Time Zone 57 ( 46 ) THE HEAT IS ON Glen Frey 58 ( 59 ) BABY COME BACK Eddy Grant 59 ( 28 ) WHO COMES TO BOOGIE Little Benny And The Masters 60 ( NEW ) COULD IT BE I’M FALLING IN LOVE David Grant and Jaki Graham 61 ( 32 ) MIDNIGHT MAN Flash And The Pan 62 ( 60 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 63 ( 44 ) RUN TO YOU Bryan Adams 64 ( 53 ) DANCING IN THE DARK Bruce Springsteen 65 ( NEW ) BETWEEN THE WARS Billy Bragg 66 ( NEW ) RUN TO ME Dionne Warwicke and Barry Manilow 67 ( 36 ) YOU’RE THE INSPIRATION Chicago 68 ( 68 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 69 ( NEW ) MYZSTERIOUS MIZSTER JONES Slade 70 ( 70 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid 71 ( 61 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 72 ( NEW ) EVERY SECOND OF THE DAY The Roaring Boys 73 ( NEW ) SOME LIKE IT HOT The Power Station 74 ( NEW ) INNER CITY BLUES Working Week 75 ( NEW ) DO YOU REALLY (WANT MY LOVE) Junior TV 16-22 March 1 The Young Ones 2 Cheers 3 Hill Street Blues 4 The Phil Silvers Show 5 Top Of The Pops 6 Bewitched 7 The Bill Cosby Show 8 Newhart 9 Spitting Image 10 Television On my MSX computer I was learning basic programming, lending records for copying to Bob, and my brother was down for a break fresh from returning to work at Blidworth pit after the endless strike, and to have a go on my new computer. Getting fed up with the very long bus trip to and from work - 9 miles but it took (and still takes) 90 minutes by bus door to door. I killed a bird driving the work van - it hit the windscreen and I felt awful about it. Most importantly, I got to see my new nephew (born the day after my birthday) Gavin, wide-eyed, tongue sticking out, and very quiet. 18-month-old Vicki had me up and down the stairs all day (kids always take to me cos I give them the attention they want), I predicted she was going to be an extrovert when she grew up. When you’re right you’re right! |
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21st April 2015, 07:28 PM
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26th March 1985 It’s a second brilliant number for Godley & Creme, as Cry does what Under Your Thumb did in 1981, and indeed what Donna did in 1972, Wall Street Shuffle in 1974, I’m Not In Love in 1975 and I’m Mandy Fly Me in 1976 for 10CC. My fave under-rated act of the 70’s. Frankie get a 4th top 5 in a row, and Pat Benatar returns with her 1984 top 20 track Love Is A Battlefield, at last a UK hit as well. David Grant and Jaki Graham get a big climb to 16, and in at 20, it’s a classic debut for Dream Academy and their awesome atmospheric Life In A Northern Town, so good it was to become the basis of a future dance sample hit with those Hail Mama’s. Fab! At 24, it’s the USA response to Band Aid, a sentimental mish mash of big names created mostly by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. We Are The World was a who’s who of big names (and the one everyone in the UK went “who he?”: Steve Perry. yes him of Journey and the 21st century million-seller anthem Don’t Stop Believin’ that had stiffed a few years before in the UK. Last laugh, eh, Steve? At 32, Brooce is back with Cover Me, staying ahead of the Big Daddy cover of Dancing In The Dark, while Joan Armatrading and Slade add to their list of top 40 hits. Sarah Brightman is in the classical world for Pie Jesu, at 41, and 7 years since topping a Starship Trooper, while Al Green soul great is back 14 years on with Never Met Nobody Like You at 62. 1 ( 4 ) CRY Godley And Creme 2 ( 1 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 3 ( 5 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 4 ( 2 ) NOW THAT WE’VE FOUND LOVE Third World 5 ( 31 ) WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE DOME Frankie Goes To Hollywood 6 ( 3 ) LET’S GO CRAZY/ TAKE ME WITH U Prince 7 ( NEW ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Pat Benatar 8 ( 11 ) WIDE BOY Nik Kershaw 9 ( 15 ) KISS ME Stephen ‘Tintin’ Duffy 10 ( 12 ) EASY LOVER Philip Bailey and Phil Collins 11 ( 8 ) MORE THAN I CAN BEAR Matt Bianco 12 ( 9 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 13 ( 21 ) HANGING ON A STRING Loose Ends 14 ( 6 ) BREAKING UP MY HEART Shakin’ Stevens 15 ( 7 ) LEGS ZZ Top 16 ( 60 ) COULD IT BE I’M FALLING IN LOVE David Grant and Jaki Graham 17 ( 10 ) MATERIAL GIRL Madonna 18 ( 18 ) MR. TELEPHONE MAN New Edition 19 ( 13 ) SHAFT Eddy And The Soul Band 20 ( NEW ) LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN Dream Academy 21 ( 20 ) DO WHAT YOU DO Jermaine Jackson 22 ( 24 ) THE BELLE OF ST. MARK Sheila E 23 ( 14 ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 24 ( NEW ) WE ARE THE WORLD USA For Africa 25 ( 27 ) WE CLOSE OUR EYES Go West 26 ( 40 ) WHY CAN’T I HAVE YOU The Cars 27 ( 29 ) FALLEN ANGELS RIDING David Essex 28 ( 39 ) EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY Paul Young 29 ( 16 ) CHANGE YOUR MIND Bill Sharpe and Gary Numan 30 ( 17 ) JUST ANOTHER NIGHT Mick Jagger 31 ( 19 ) THAT OLE DEVIL CALLED LOVE Alison Moyet 32 ( NEW ) COVER ME Bruce Springsteen 33 ( 35 ) GUN LAW The Kane Gang 34 ( 47 ) DANCING IN THE DARK Big Daddy 35 ( 36 ) SUGAR WALLS Sheena Easton 36 ( 43 ) TEMPTATION Joan Armatrading 37 ( 70 ) MYZSTERIOUS MIZSTER JONES Slade 38 ( 41 ) SOMEBODY Bryan Adams 39 ( 22 ) METHOD OF MODERN LOVE Daryl Hall and John Oates 40 ( 30 ) STARVATION Starvation 41 ( NEW ) PIE JESU Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston 42 ( 26 ) CONTRACT OF THE HEART Spelt Like This 43 ( 74 ) SOME LIKE IT HOT The Power Station 44 ( 66 ) BETWEEN THE WARS Billy Bragg 45 ( 37 ) IT’S...IT’S...THE SWEET MIX The Sweet 46 ( 23 ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 47 ( 28 ) MISSING YOU Diana Ross 48 ( 32 ) THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER Howard Jones 49 ( 34 ) THIS IS NOT AMERICA David Bowie and The Pat Metheny Group 50 ( 50 ) BLACK MAN RAY China Crisis 51 ( 57 ) THE HEAT IS ON Glen Frey 52 ( 38 ) FOREVER MAN Eric Clapton 53 ( 54 ) CAN’T FIGHT THIS FEELING REO Speedwagon 54 ( 25 ) LOVE AND PRIDE King 55 ( 46 ) 1999/LITTLE RED CORVETTE Prince 56 ( 44 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 57 ( 48 ) TAINTED LOVE Soft Cell 58 ( NEW ) WON’T YOU HOLD MY HAND NOW King 59 ( NEW ) LET HER GO Strawberry Switchblade 60 ( 53 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 61 ( 52 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 62 ( NEW ) NEVER MET NOBODY LIKE YOU Al Green 63 ( 33 ) NIGHTSHIFT The Commodores 64 ( 42 ) I KNOW HIM SO WELL Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige 65 ( 63 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 66 ( 55 ) GOT A LITTLE HEARTACHE Alvin Stardust 67 ( 67 ) RUN TO ME Dionne Warwicke and Barry Manilow 68 ( NEW ) THAT WAS YESTERDAY Foreigner 69 ( 51 ) LOVERBOY Billy Ocean 70 ( NEW ) GRIMLY FIENDISH The Damned 71 ( 69 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 72 ( 49 ) NO FOOL (FOR LOVE) Hazell Dean 73 ( 72 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 74 ( NEW ) LUCKY The Greg Kihn Band 75 ( 45 ) BREAKING HEARTS Elton John TV 23-29 Mar 1 The Young Ones: Oil 2 Cheers 3 Hill Street Blues 4 The Pink Panther Strikes Back 5 Top Of The Pops 6 Bewitched 7 Spitting Image 8 The Phil Silvers Show 9 The Addams Family 10 Newhart Work was a week without boss-git, and it was bliss, just me and Bob able to get more work done and have a pleasant working environment along the country roads, even if Bob was throwing up ill on Tuesday. Had a meal at his parents which was nice of them, and I met his mum for the first time. It was Roy’s last day on friday, so we met up in the Westbourne pub for a goodbye drink. Roy had referred to our absent boss as “our venereal friend” so no love lost there! At home, I got frustrated being unable to save any synth sounds I created on the MSX, on the stupid sh*tty little tape recorder back up. That, I daresay, was the reason MSX computers failed miserably. |
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25th May 2015, 08:32 PM
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2nd April 1985
2 weeks on top for Cry, and Godley And Creme, as Tears For Fears hit 2 for the third time, and Frankie hit 3 with their Pleasuredome, and looking like the hat-trick of chart-toppers is about the end of it. David Grant and Jaki Graham, meanwhile take Could It Be I’m Falling In Love into the top 10 and match the Detroit Spinners original, while Dream Academy hit 10 with the utterly brilliant Life In A Northern Town. Into the 20? USA For Africa, Sheena Easton, Jermaine Jackson, The Kane Gang, and for the last time with a new single (apart from that xmas song!) Slade call it a day with the Myzsterious Mizster Jones, 14 years, 2 number ones and a long long run of big hits. TV was calling Noddy and he never went back to singing, doh! China Crisis go top 40, as does Glen Frey snuggling up to former Eagles co-vocalist Don Henley, and ahead of Robert Palmer and Duranies. King join Prince in the 40, and The Damned get a decent return to the 40 6 years since they first did the trick, Grimly Fiendishly. Ditto Sarah Brightman, Pie Jesu-ing at 39, and Strawberry Switchblade return with Let her Go. New entries from cool Brit soul The Cool Notes, Spend The Night at 49, Phil Collins in ballad mode, One More Night at 52, Phyllis Nelson’s soulful great Move Closer at 60, The Smiths with a tribute to Bananarama vocalist Siobhan, Shakespear’s Sister at 75, and 5 years of chart entries for Change at 74. 1 ( 1 ) CRY Godley And Creme 2 ( 3 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 3 ( 5 ) WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE DOME Frankie Goes To Hollywood 4 ( 4 ) NOW THAT WE’VE FOUND LOVE Third World 5 ( 2 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 6 ( 7 ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Pat Benatar 7 ( 16 ) COULD IT BE I’M FALLING IN LOVE David Grant and Jaki Graham 8 ( 8 ) WIDE BOY Nik Kershaw 9 ( 9 ) KISS ME Stephen ‘Tintin’ Duffy 10 ( 20 ) LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN Dream Academy 11 ( 13 ) HANGING ON A STRING Loose Ends 12 ( 10 ) EASY LOVER Philip Bailey and Phil Collins 13 ( 6 ) LET’S GO CRAZY/ TAKE ME WITH U Prince 14 ( 11 ) MORE THAN I CAN BEAR Matt Bianco 15 ( 24 ) WE ARE THE WORLD USA For Africa 16 ( 12 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 17 ( 21 ) DO WHAT YOU DO Jermaine Jackson 18 ( 33 ) GUN LAW The Kane Gang 19 ( 35 ) SUGAR WALLS Sheena Easton 20 ( 37 ) MYZSTERIOUS MIZSTER JONES Slade 21 ( 17 ) MATERIAL GIRL Madonna 22 ( 14 ) BREAKING UP MY HEART Shakin’ Stevens 23 ( 28 ) EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY Paul Young 24 ( 32 ) COVER ME Bruce Springsteen 25 ( 25 ) WE CLOSE OUR EYES Go West 26 ( 22 ) THE BELLE OF ST. MARK Sheila E 27 ( 15 ) LEGS ZZ Top 28 ( 34 ) DANCING IN THE DARK Big Daddy 29 ( 19 ) SHAFT Eddy And The Soul Band 30 ( 18 ) MR. TELEPHONE MAN New Edition 31 ( 50 ) BLACK MAN RAY China Crisis 32 ( 23 ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 33 ( 51 ) THE HEAT IS ON Glen Frey 34 ( 43 ) SOME LIKE IT HOT The Power Station 35 ( 38 ) SOMEBODY Bryan Adams 36 ( 58 ) WON’T YOU HOLD MY HAND NOW King 37 ( 31 ) THAT OLE DEVIL CALLED LOVE Alison Moyet 38 ( 70 ) GRIMLY FIENDISH The Damned 39 ( 41 ) PIE JESU Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston 40 ( 59 ) LET HER GO Strawberry Switchblade 41 ( 26 ) WHY CAN’T I HAVE YOU The Cars 42 ( 29 ) CHANGE YOUR MIND Bill Sharpe and Gary Numan 43 ( 30 ) JUST ANOTHER NIGHT Mick Jagger 44 ( 44 ) BETWEEN THE WARS Billy Bragg 45 ( 27 ) FALLEN ANGELS RIDING David Essex 46 ( 53 ) CAN’T FIGHT THIS FEELING REO Speedwagon 47 ( 36 ) TEMPTATION Joan Armatrading 48 ( 45 ) IT’S...IT’S...THE SWEET MIX The Sweet 49 ( NEW ) SPEND THE NIGHT The Cool Notes 50 ( 40 ) STARVATION Starvation 51 ( 46 ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 52 ( NEW ) ONE MORE NIGHT Phil Collins 53 ( 39 ) METHOD OF MODERN LOVE Daryl Hall and John Oates 54 ( 42 ) CONTRACT OF THE HEART Spelt Like This 55 ( 62 ) NEVER MET NOBODY LIKE YOU Al Green 56 ( 56 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 57 ( 57 ) TAINTED LOVE Soft Cell 58 ( 49 ) THIS IS NOT AMERICA David Bowie and The Pat Metheny Group 59 ( 55 ) 1999/LITTLE RED CORVETTE Prince 60 ( NEW ) MOVE CLOSER Phyllis Nelson 61 ( 48 ) THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER Howard Jones 62 ( 52 ) FOREVER MAN Eric Clapton 63 ( 47 ) MISSING YOU Diana Ross 64 ( 60 ) SINCE YESTERDAY Strawberry Switchblade 65 ( 61 ) I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS Foreigner 66 ( 68 ) THAT WAS YESTERDAY Foreigner 67 ( 65 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 68 ( 54 ) LOVE AND PRIDE King 69 ( 74 ) LUCKY The Greg Kihn Band 70 ( 73 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 71 ( 71 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 72 ( 66 ) GOT A LITTLE HEARTACHE Alvin Stardust 73 ( 64 ) I KNOW HIM SO WELL Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige 74 ( NEW ) LET’S GO TOGETHER Change 75 ( NEW ) SHAKESPEAR’S SISTER The Smiths TV 30th Mar-5th Apr 1 The Young Ones: Bomb 2 Cheers 3 The Phil Silvers Show 4 Newhart 5 Top Of The Pops 6 Bewitched 7 The Cosby Show 8 Dallas 9 Entertainment USA 10 Doctor Who At the cinema: 2010 A Space Odyssey, based on the fabulous sci-fi sequel novel by Arthur C.Clarke, my hero writer, and following-on from the groundbreaking Kubrick movie 2001, which remains the definitive statement on space exploration realism (albeit with fantasy tagged on). “great effects, intelligent, though-provoking, refreshingly different angle on Soviet/U.S. relations and not overlong. More human relations would have been nice, more Europa (the moon of Jupiter) too, but nitpicking. An entertaining movie, much better than Dune, not as entertaining as Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones and Return Of The Jedi, but probably on a par in a different way. More straightforward than 2001, more human, more accessible, I’d rate it higher (for that reason).” I’d still rather watch 2010 than 2001, but 2001 remains a classic and 2010 isn’t, sadly. At work we got the great news that the boss would be moving over to the other team of surveyors and we were getting a new driver. Hooray! Got rid of him at last, we had a lunchtime drink in a pub in rural Dorset village Childe Okeford where the locals, bar one friendly guy who played pool with us, appeared to have been taken over by alien pods from Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers, they said nothing, just sat there and gave the odd mild yokel ooaarrr occasionally. On sunday I bought my first (second-hand) moped from the army camp, and tried to ride it home, it just kept cutting out though and didn’t go above 25 mph, so back for a service. It wasn’t very powerful, but just about got me about in my sports helmet on a pathetic titchy moped. The helmet was a good buy, it turned out though, so who cares what I looked like. |
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27th May 2015, 12:46 PM
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9th April 1985
17 new entries and a new all-time classic number one as Tears For Fears finally get higher than 2 in my chart with the awesome Everybody Wants To Rule The World. Roland Orzabal always said he co-wrote it deliberately as a commercial American hit record, but that does it a disservice - OK it’s more upbeat than previous TFF singles, but oh my word it’s a perfect creation. Almost everything about it is a hook, there are multiple melodies, all great, all hooky, and Curt Smith’s vocals were perfect for the song, light and harmonic to contrast Roland’s darker deeper injections. I got, and still get, goosebumps when I hear it - it’s one of those rare perfect records where it can’t be improved on (witness the less-good Everybody Wants To Run The World a year later), it just sounds so right from start to finish, the sexual chords, the synths, the shuffling beat. Perfection! Highest new entry at 4 is a mash-up of classic T.Rex singles, the late Marc Bolan having had a majestic run of glam-rock monsters that rated very high on my nostalgia-ometer, and still do. Megarex 1 did the trick for me, and gave T.Rex their first top 5 since Telegram Sam had been reissued in 1982 and hit my number one. Phyllis Nelson moves closer to the 10, up from 60 to 14, Go west slot in behind eyes closed, with a China Crisis on their heels, and the heat is on at 20 as Glen Frey gets his first solo top 20 a decade after hitting 2 with The Eagles. So, new entry invasion, ABC return at 33, Be Near Me is a good addition to the classy ballads they excel at, while at 35, the American version of a ska invasion that climaxed with No Doubt and Gwen Stefani a decade or so later starts with The Untouchables, and Free Yourself. 70’s funk band War return at 38 10 years on with a slick version of The Young Rascals fabulously cool and laid-back 60’s hit Groovin’, as Sal Solo is at 39 with his follow-up to San Damiano, Music And You. Lower down there’s Howard Jones extending his pop hit run - Look Mama! - at 49, while The Rah Band have their best hit since topping my chart in 1977 with The Crunch, and it’s a jazz-funk smooth sci-fi styled dance goodie, staying just the right side of cheese for me, and in at 50. At 52, Narada’s back (minus his Michael Walden) after a 5-year gap, in combo with Patti austin for Gimme Gimme Gimme (not to be Abba confused) it’s pop souldance, and at 53 it’s the under-rated fabulous Bangles debut hit Going Down To Liverpool, a cover of a Katrina And The Waves song, with a 60’s flavour and fab harmonies. As if that wasn’t enough my hero Leonard “Spock” Nimoy is in the video. What’s not to love?! Check it out. That’s an order. Should have been big! Pause for breath, and the invasion continues, as a version of Flower Duet from Lakme adds some classy opera to the chart at 55, thanks to it’s use in advert, and at 56 it’s a future monster American chart-topper from a huge movie, catapulting Simple Minds into world stadium rockers for a while, and critical derision, but Don’t You Forget About Me is a good record anyway. They ain’t the only act going stadium rock either, Eurythmics do the same at 59 - Would I Lie To You? No. Don Henley has a laid-back sunset grill tale at 60, which is also fab, as is the lovely synth instrumental Moments In Love as Art Of Noise return at 65 - if you have 10 minutes to spare check out the gorgeous youtube video and try and work out how you know the tune so well (answer: sampled so often, chill-out compilations etc). That leaves Chris Rea back, Tom Petty back, both 1977/1978 veterans, and Dead Or Alive with a 3rd chart entry. Phew! 1 ( 2 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 2 ( 1 ) CRY Godley And Creme 3 ( 3 ) WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE DOME Frankie Goes To Hollywood 4 ( NEW ) MEGAREX 1 T.Rex 5 ( 7 ) COULD IT BE I’M FALLING IN LOVE David Grant and Jaki Graham 6 ( 10 ) LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN Dream Academy 7 ( 4 ) NOW THAT WE’VE FOUND LOVE Third World 8 ( 6 ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Pat Benatar 9 ( 11 ) HANGING ON A STRING Loose Ends 10 ( 5 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 11 ( 15 ) WE ARE THE WORLD USA For Africa 12 ( 9 ) KISS ME Stephen ‘Tintin’ Duffy 13 ( 8 ) WIDE BOY Nik Kershaw 14 ( 60 ) MOVE CLOSER Phyllis Nelson 15 ( 25 ) WE CLOSE OUR EYES Go West 16 ( 31 ) BLACK MAN RAY China Crisis 17 ( 19 ) SUGAR WALLS Sheena Easton 18 ( 12 ) EASY LOVER Philip Bailey and Phil Collins 19 ( 24 ) COVER ME Bruce Springsteen 20 ( 33 ) THE HEAT IS ON Glen Frey 21 ( 13 ) LET’S GO CRAZY/ TAKE ME WITH U Prince 22 ( 18 ) GUN LAW The Kane Gang 23 ( 21 ) MATERIAL GIRL Madonna 24 ( 36 ) WON’T YOU HOLD MY HAND NOW King 25 ( 16 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 26 ( 14 ) MORE THAN I CAN BEAR Matt Bianco 27 ( 38 ) GRIMLY FIENDISH The Damned 28 ( 17 ) DO WHAT YOU DO Jermaine Jackson 29 ( 49 ) SPEND THE NIGHT The Cool Notes 30 ( 35 ) SOMEBODY Bryan Adams 31 ( 23 ) EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY Paul Young 32 ( 20 ) MYZSTERIOUS MIZSTER JONES Slade 33 ( NEW ) BE NEAR ME ABC 34 ( 34 ) SOME LIKE IT HOT The Power Station 35 ( NEW ) FREE YOURSELF The Untouchables 36 ( 22 ) BREAKING UP MY HEART Shakin’ Stevens 37 ( 27 ) LEGS ZZ Top 38 ( NEW ) GROOVIN’ War 39 ( NEW ) MUSIC AND YOU Sal Solo 40 ( 29 ) SHAFT Eddy And The Soul Band 41 ( 46 ) CAN’T FIGHT THIS FEELING REO Speedwagon 42 ( 37 ) THAT OLE DEVIL CALLED LOVE Alison Moyet 43 ( 32 ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 44 ( 30 ) MR. TELEPHONE MAN New Edition 45 ( 52 ) ONE MORE NIGHT Phil Collins 46 ( 26 ) THE BELLE OF ST. MARK Sheila E 47 ( 39 ) PIE JESU Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston 48 ( 28 ) DANCING IN THE DARK Big Daddy 49 ( NEW ) LOOK MAMA Howard Jones 50 ( NEW ) CLOUDS ACROSS THE MOON The Rah Band 51 ( 48 ) IT’S...IT’S...THE SWEET MIX The Sweet 52 ( NEW ) GIMME GIMME GIMME Narada and Patti Austin 53 ( NEW ) GOING DOWN THE LIVERPOOL The Bangles 54 ( 40 ) LET HER GO Strawberry Switchblade 55 ( NEW ) FLOWER DUET FROM LAKME Mady Mesple and Danielle Millet 56 ( NEW ) DON’T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) Simple Minds 57 ( 41 ) WHY CAN’T I HAVE YOU The Cars 58 ( 47 ) TEMPTATION Joan Armatrading 59 ( NEW ) WOULD I LIE TO YOU Eurythmics 60 ( NEW ) DOWN AT THE SUNSET GRILL Don Henley 61 ( 51 ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 62 ( 66 ) THAT WAS YESTERDAY Foreigner 63 ( 42 ) CHANGE YOUR MIND Bill Sharpe and Gary Numan 64 ( 43 ) JUST ANOTHER NIGHT Mick Jagger 65 ( NEW ) MOMENTS IN LOVE The Art Of Noise 66 ( 59 ) 1999/LITTLE RED CORVETTE Prince 67 ( 74 ) LET’S GO TOGETHER Change 68 ( NEW ) STAINSBY GIRLS Chris Rea 69 ( 67 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 70 ( 70 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 71 ( 44 ) BETWEEN THE WARS Billy Bragg 72 ( NEW ) DON’T COME AROUND HERE NO MORE Tom Petty 73 ( 71 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics 74 ( NEW ) LOVER COME BACK TO ME Dead Or Alive 75 ( 75 ) SHAKESPEARE’S SISTER The Smiths TV 6th - 12th Apr 1 Blazing Saddles: film 2 Cheers 3 The Monkees 4 Alias Smith And Jones 5 The Phil Silvers Show 6 The Abba Story 7 Top Of The Pops 8 The Cannonball Run: film 9 The Muppet Movie: film 10 The Cosby Show On TV the final episode of Are You Being Served aired, I was reading Douglas Adams’ Restaurant At The End Of The Universe on the bus to work, and we had a new van driver, big Bob, chatty, sweary, fag-smokey, and amiable. In those days people used to smoke in vans, pubs and the office, which frankly left me with a sort throat, stinking clothes and pissed off with them. Three cheers for the Smoking Ban! Grandma (mum’s mum) was down to stay with me and Aunty Eileen was down en route to my Auntie at Weymouth, fresh after Uncle Tony had moved out, the other half arrived a bit later, grandad (dads dad), Ann, Geoff, and cousins Neil and Claire. Busy day. |
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28th May 2015, 07:56 PM
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16th April 1980
2 weeks for Tears For Fears ruling the world, with T.Rex stalking them at 2. Phyllis Nelson and USA For Africa, 2 UK chart-toppers, make my top 10, while Don Henley goes for a 2nd consecutive top 40, down at the sunset grill, and other big USA hits from Phil Collins and REO Speedwagon join him. Plus Howard Jones, look ma no hands, and Simple Minds famously not forgetting. Very few new entries, just Sheila E getting a second quick Prince-led hit, The Glamorous Life for her at 60, Robin George, coulda-been rockstar enters at 62 with Heartline, Marilyn’s back again in the cold at 67, and there’s a debut at 68 which is notable: not for DeBarge but for songwriter Diane Warren, one-woman songwriting power-house, Rhythm Of The Night. At 71 Toyah has a last fab pop single, Don’t Fall In Love (I Said) wasn’t one of her biggest hits, but it was one of her best singles. Love comes to Gary Glitter at 74. Yes, well, no comment, bar 13 years of chart entries. 1 ( 1 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 2 ( 4 ) MEGAREX 1 T.Rex 3 ( 3 ) WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE DOME Frankie Goes To Hollywood 4 ( 2 ) CRY Godley And Creme 5 ( 5 ) COULD IT BE I’M FALLING IN LOVE David Grant and Jaki Graham 6 ( 6 ) LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN Dream Academy 7 ( 8 ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Pat Benatar 8 ( 14 ) MOVE CLOSER Phyllis Nelson 9 ( 11 ) WE ARE THE WORLD USA For Africa 10 ( 7 ) NOW THAT WE’VE FOUND LOVE Third World 11 ( 10 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 12 ( 9 ) HANGING ON A STRING Loose Ends 13 ( 16 ) BLACK MAN RAY China Crisis 14 ( 17 ) SUGAR WALLS Sheena Easton 15 ( 15 ) WE CLOSE OUR EYES Go West 16 ( 24 ) WON’T YOU HOLD MY HAND NOW King 17 ( 29 ) SPEND THE NIGHT The Cool Notes 18 ( 13 ) WIDE BOY Nik Kershaw 19 ( 19 ) COVER ME Bruce Springsteen 20 ( 12 ) KISS ME Stephen ‘Tintin’ Duffy 21 ( 20 ) THE HEAT IS ON Glen Frey 22 ( 18 ) EASY LOVER Philip Bailey and Phil Collins 23 ( 23 ) MATERIAL GIRL Madonna 24 ( 33 ) BE NEAR ME ABC 25 ( 30 ) SOMEBODY Bryan Adams 26 ( 27 ) GRIMLY FIENDISH The Damned 27 ( 34 ) SOME LIKE IT HOT The Power Station 28 ( 60 ) SUNSET GRILL Don Henley 29 ( 50 ) CLOUDS ACROSS THE MOON The Rah Band 30 ( 35 ) FREE YOURSELF The Untouchables 31 ( 21 ) LET’S GO CRAZY/ TAKE ME WITH U Prince 32 ( 45 ) ONE MORE NIGHT Phil Collins 33 ( 25 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 34 ( 39 ) MUSIC AND YOU Sal Solo 35 ( 31 ) EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY Paul Young 36 ( 41 ) CAN’T FIGHT THIS FEELING REO Speedwagon 37 ( 38 ) GROOVIN’ War 38 ( 49 ) LOOK MAMA Howard Jones 39 ( 22 ) GUN LAW The Kane Gang 40 ( 56 ) DON’T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) Simple Minds 41 ( 32 ) MYZSTERIOUS MIZSTER JONES Slade 42 ( 28 ) DO WHAT YOU DO Jermaine Jackson 43 ( 26 ) MORE THAN I CAN BEAR Matt Bianco 44 ( 62 ) THAT WAS YESTERDAY Foreigner 45 ( 74 ) LOVER COME BACK TO ME Dead Or Alive 46 ( 37 ) LEGS ZZ Top 47 ( 40 ) SHAFT Eddy And The Soul Band 48 ( 36 ) BREAKING UP MY HEART Shakin’ Stevens 49 ( 52 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME Narada and Patti Austin 50 ( 54 ) LET HER GO Strawberry Switchblade 51 ( 42 ) THAT OLE DEVIL CALLED LOVE Alison Moyet 52 ( 59 ) WOULD I LIE TO YOU Eurythmics 53 ( 53 ) GOING DOWN THE LIVERPOOL The Bangles 54 ( 55 ) FLOWER DUET FROM LAKME Mady Mesple and Danielle Millet 55 ( 51 ) IT’S...IT’S...THE SWEET MIX The Sweet 56 ( 72 ) DON’T COME AROUND HERE NO MORE Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers 57 ( 43 ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 58 ( 67 ) LET’S GO TOGETHER Change 59 ( 65 ) MOMENTS IN LOVE The Art Of Noise 60 ( NEW ) THE GLAMOROUS LIFE Sheila E 61 ( 47 ) PIE JESU Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston 62 ( NEW ) HEARTLINE Robin George 63 ( 68 ) STAINSBY GIRLS Chris Rea 64 ( 48 ) DANCING IN THE DARK Big Daddy 65 ( 75 ) SHAKESPEARE’S SISTER The Smiths 66 ( 44 ) MR. TELEPHONE MAN New Edition 67 ( NEW ) BABY U LEFT ME (IN THE COLD) Marilyn 68 ( NEW ) RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT DeBarge 69 ( 46 ) THE BELLE OF ST. MARK Sheila E 70 ( 69 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 71 ( NEW ) DON’T FALL IN LOVE (I SAID) Toyah 72 ( 61 ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 73 ( 70 ) SHOUT Tears For Fears 74 ( NEW ) LOVE COMES Gary Glitter 75 ( 73 ) SEX CRIME (1984) Eurythmics TV 13th-19th Apr 1 Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before 2 The Young Ones: Boring 3 Cheers 4 Star Trek: The Corbomite Manoever 5 Terrahawks: Stu Dapples episode 6 Dallas 7 Taxi 8 Top Of The Pops 9 The Cosby Show 10 The Phil Silvers Show Grandma was down for a week with me, but didn’t look at all well and spent weekdays on her own while I was at work, all of which worried me. In the van there was a new daily B.O. problem to put up with (not me) which got very wearying eventually. Now reading Douglas Adams’ Life The Universe And Everything. I wrote a computer program designed to input my pop chart position data and automatically generate “sales”. Never did get round to perfecting it as a quick fix, it was more of a glorified calculator. Still, writing simple programs, hey! |
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29th May 2015, 06:37 PM
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23rd April 1985
The unthinkable - Tears For Fears knocked off after only 2 weeks on top, but at least it’s teen faves T.Rex that do it, with a mix of their great EMI singles, Megarex, giving them a 6th chart-topper. After 3 weeks at 3, Frankie get frustratingly close to a 4th number one, but peak no higher than 2, I’m afraid. Pat Benatar battles up to 4, and The Fabs are back with another 20th anniversary oldie, Ticket To Ride in at 6, and the jangly indiepop template was firmly laid down here. The Smiths were the cool band of the day, but they had roots in The Beatles, among others. The Rah Band get their first top 20 entry since The Crunch in 1977, and Diana Ross re-enters with her tribute ballad, Missing You, hitting the top 20 for the first time, and her biggest single in a few years. Into the 40 go The Bangles down to Liverpool, while the writer enters herself at 50, the still-fab still-played Walking On Sunshine from Katrina And The Waves. Dead Or Alive are into the 40, replacing themselves, and Eurythmics, Art Of Noise and DeBarge join them in the big 40. At 48, Bronski Beat and Marc Almond join forces on a cover of I Feel Love, only 3 years since it was last a hit for Donna Summer. It was a big UK hit, and interesting having two male diva voices, but, yeah, not the game-changing Giorgio Moroder-produced original for me. Talking of male divas, Freddie Mercury gets a second solo hit at 58, I Was Born To Love You being a bit jollier than Love Kills, Chaka Khan is also back, eye to eye with Freddie, Ashford And Simpson have given birth to a new entry at 75, and best of all the synth pop delight of the under-rated Imagination from Belouis Some, in at 68. 1 ( 2 ) MEGAREX 1 T.Rex 2 ( 3 ) WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE DOME Frankie Goes To Hollywood 3 ( 1 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 4 ( 7 ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Pat Benatar 5 ( 4 ) CRY Godley And Creme 6 ( NEW ) TICKET TO RIDE The Beatles 7 ( 5 ) COULD IT BE I’M FALLING IN LOVE David Grant and Jaki Graham 8 ( 8 ) MOVE CLOSER Phyllis Nelson 9 ( 6 ) LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN Dream Academy 10 ( 9 ) WE ARE THE WORLD USA For Africa 11 ( 13 ) BLACK MAN RAY China Crisis 12 ( 17 ) SPEND THE NIGHT The Cool Notes 13 ( 10 ) NOW THAT WE’VE FOUND LOVE Third World 14 ( 29 ) CLOUDS ACROSS THE MOON The Rah Band 15 ( 30 ) FREE YOURSELF The Untouchables 16 ( 11 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 17 ( 40 ) DON’T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) Simple Minds 18 ( 38 ) LOOK MAMA Howard Jones 19 ( 14 ) SUGAR WALLS Sheena Easton 20 ( RE ) MISSING YOU Diana Ross 21 ( 12 ) HANGING ON A STRING Loose Ends 22 ( 53 ) GOING DOWN THE LIVERPOOL The Bangles 23 ( 24 ) BE NEAR ME ABC 24 ( 15 ) WE CLOSE OUR EYES Go West 25 ( 45 ) LOVER COME BACK TO ME Dead Or Alive 26 ( 28 ) SUNSET GRILL Don Henley 27 ( 16 ) WON’T YOU HOLD MY HAND NOW King 28 ( 18 ) WIDE BOY Nik Kershaw 29 ( 20 ) KISS ME Stephen ‘Tintin’ Duffy 30 ( 37 ) GROOVIN’ War 31 ( 19 ) COVER ME Bruce Springsteen 32 ( 32 ) ONE MORE NIGHT Phil Collins 33 ( 68 ) RYTHYM OF THE NIGHT DeBarge 34 ( 36 ) CAN’T FIGHT THIS FEELING REO Speedwagon 35 ( 25 ) SOMEBODY Bryan Adams 36 ( 52 ) WOULD I LIE TO YOU Eurythmics 37 ( 23 ) MATERIAL GIRL Madonna 38 ( 21 ) THE HEAT IS ON Glen Frey 39 ( 44 ) THAT WAS YESTERDAY Foreigner 40 ( 59 ) MOMENTS IN LOVE The Art Of Noise 41 ( 31 ) LET’S GO CRAZY/ TAKE ME WITH U Prince 42 ( 56 ) DON’T COME AROUND HERE NO MORE Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers 43 ( 33 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 44 ( 49 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME Narada and Patti Austin 45 ( 63 ) STAINSBY GIRLS Chris Rea 46 ( 22 ) EASY LOVER Philip Bailey and Phil Collins 47 ( 60 ) THE GLAMOROUS LIFE Sheila E 48 ( NEW ) I FEEL LOVE Bronski Beat and Marc Almond 49 ( 35 ) EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY Paul Young 50 ( NEW ) WALKING ON SUNSHINE Katrina And The Waves 51 ( 27 ) SOME LIKE IT HOT The Power Station 52 ( 26 ) GRIMLY FIENDISH The Damned 53 ( 58 ) LET’S GO TOGETHER Change 54 ( 46 ) LEGS ZZ Top 55 ( 34 ) MUSIC AND YOU Sal Solo 56 ( 39 ) GUN LAW The Kane Gang 57 ( 62 ) HEARTLINE Robin George 58 ( NEW ) I WAS BORN TO LOVE YOU Freddie Mercury 59 ( 47 ) SHAFT Eddy And The Soul Band 60 ( 55 ) IT’S...IT’S...THE SWEET MIX The Sweet 61 ( NEW ) EYE TO EYE Chaka Khan 62 ( 74 ) LOVE COMES Gary Glitter 63 ( 43 ) MORE THAN I CAN BEAR Matt Bianco 64 ( 42 ) DO WHAT YOU DO Jermaine Jackson 65 ( 41 ) MYZSTERIOUS MIZSTER JONES Slade 66 ( 48 ) BREAKING UP MY HEART Shakin’ Stevens 67 ( 67 ) BABY U LEFT ME (IN THE COLD) Marilyn 68 ( NEW ) IMAGINATION Belouis Some 69 ( 57 ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 70 ( 70 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 71 ( 71 ) DON’T FALL IN LOVE (I SAID) Toyah 72 ( 72 ) A NEW ENGLAND Kirsty MacColl 73 ( 61 ) PIE JESU Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston 74 ( 50 ) LET HER GO Strawberry Switchblade 75 ( NEW ) BABIES Ashford And Simpson TV 20th-26th Apr 1 The Young Ones: Interesting 2 Cheers 3 Hill Street Blues 4 The Phil Silvers Show 5 Lou Grant 6 Top Of The Pops 7 Newhart 8 The Bill Cosby Show 9 Dallas 10 Television At work, my mate Bob had an interview for another Council, which I knew he’d get and wasn’t looking forward to him leaving, as he very much was the one I got on with - the boss came over from Dorchester to try and persuade him to stay (Bob was applying for a temp post which had more opportunities, so no chance of that). I bemoaned my shit wages (which they were). On Saturday, ailing grandma decided she wanted to go home on Sunday to Liverpool, but still obviously flushed and upset when I picked her up from the NAAFI, as she hated goodbyes even more than I do, I think. It was a 6-hour trip there, obviously not feeling good but not complaining (which worried me even more), and when I left her at home with a neighbour friend, setting off she hinted that she’d like to move down to live with me which put me on the spot and I made excuses about her having no friends (like me) in Poole. You can’t change the past, but it would have been good for her to live with her family and she would certainly have lived longer. I still feel guilty. |
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30th May 2015, 07:12 PM
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30th April 1985
Back up to the top of the chart, quite rightly, for a 3rd week at 1, Everybody Still Wants To Rule The World. Brilliant. Pat Benatar has to make do with the runners-up Battlefield medal, sadly, cos it’s certainly good enough to be on top, as The Beatles Ticket To Ride at 3. Aside from the time in 1976 when the Beatles entire singles back catalogue reissues had to have their own chart (there would have been no room for any new stuff, so it was just a practical solution) that’s the highest-placed Beatles oldie to date. Lots of new entries, headed by a synthpop American classic, finally catching up with the UK music scene, at 18 it’s Animotion and the fabulous Obsession. One-hit wonders, pretty much, but an actual pop wonder. Kim Wilde returns for the 4th year of continuous chart entries, as she has a Rage To Love at 27. Still good, too. Latin Quarter had a gentle cool reggae rock style, and a great social commentary single in Radio Africa in at 32. It eventually made the UK singles chart in 1986, but I liked it right off and was annoyed it flopped. 46, Divine’s back, camp as ever, but this time destroying a Four Seasons classic. It’s a much better record than You Think You’re A Man, cos the song is a great song, and western pop video theme didn’t hurt, Divine as a right madam. Great fun. Scritti Politti also return, at 60, with a slow reggae dub groove, The Word Girl is cool pop, but then Green Gartside was always cool. New at 65, a debut for Steve Arrington and one of the great 80’s soul dance tracks that by now were incorporating the new synth sounds more than the traditional funk dance set up. Feel So Real is a terrific record. In at 70, Haywoode brings Roses into my chart, and another future UK 1986 hit that shamefully flopped, relatively, first time round. 1 ( 3 ) EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD Tears For Fears 2 ( 4 ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Pat Benatar 3 ( 6 ) TICKET TO RIDE The Beatles 4 ( 1 ) MEGAREX 1 T.Rex 5 ( 5 ) CRY Godley And Creme 6 ( 2 ) WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE DOME Frankie Goes To Hollywood 7 ( 7 ) COULD IT BE I’M FALLING IN LOVE David Grant and Jaki Graham 8 ( 14 ) CLOUDS ACROSS THE MOON The Rah Band 9 ( 11 ) BLACK MAN RAY China Crisis 10 ( 15 ) FREE YOURSELF The Untouchables 11 ( 9 ) LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN Dream Academy 12 ( 25 ) LOVER COME BACK TO ME Dead Or Alive 13 ( 17 ) DON’T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) Simple Minds 14 ( 18 ) LOOK MAMA Howard Jones 15 ( 22 ) GOING DOWN THE LIVERPOOL The Bangles 16 ( 8 ) MOVE CLOSER Phyllis Nelson 17 ( 10 ) WE ARE THE WORLD USA For Africa 18 ( NEW ) OBSESSION Animotion 19 ( 12 ) SPEND THE NIGHT The Cool Notes 20 ( 20 ) MISSING YOU Diana Ross 21 ( 13 ) NOW THAT WE’VE FOUND LOVE Third World 22 ( 26 ) SUNSET GRILL Don Henley 23 ( 36 ) WOULD I LIE TO YOU Eurythmics 24 ( 16 ) THE LAST KISS David Cassidy 25 ( 33 ) RYTHYM OF THE NIGHT DeBarge 26 ( 48 ) I FEEL LOVE Bronski Beat and Marc Almond 27 ( NEW ) RAGE TO LOVE Kim Wilde 28 ( 58 ) I WAS BORN TO LOVE YOU Freddie Mercury 29 ( 21 ) HANGING ON A STRING Loose Ends 30 ( 50 ) WALKING ON SUNSHINE Katrina And The Waves 31 ( 19 ) SUGAR WALLS Sheena Easton 32 ( NEW ) RADIO AFRICA Latin Quarter 33 ( 47 ) THE GLAMOROUS LIFE Sheila E 34 ( 23 ) BE NEAR ME ABC 35 ( 24 ) WE CLOSE OUR EYES Go West 36 ( 40 ) MOMENTS IN LOVE The Art Of Noise 37 ( 28 ) WIDE BOY Nik Kershaw 38 ( 39 ) THAT WAS YESTERDAY Foreigner 39 ( 45 ) STAINSBY GIRLS Chris Rea 40 ( 29 ) KISS ME Stephen ‘Tintin’ Duffy 41 ( 30 ) GROOVIN’ War 42 ( 27 ) WON’T YOU HOLD MY HAND NOW King 43 ( 41 ) LET’S GO CRAZY/ TAKE ME WITH U Prince 44 ( 61 ) EYE TO EYE Chaka Khan 45 ( 32 ) ONE MORE NIGHT Phil Collins 46 ( NEW ) WALK LIKE A MAN Divine 47 ( 42 ) DON’T COME AROUND HERE NO MORE Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers 48 ( 37 ) MATERIAL GIRL Madonna 49 ( 43 ) YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) Dead Or Alive 50 ( 62 ) LOVE COMES Gary Glitter 51 ( 31 ) COVER ME Bruce Springsteen 52 ( 35 ) SOMEBODY Bryan Adams 53 ( 71 ) DON’T FALL IN LOVE (I SAID) Toyah 54 ( 38 ) THE HEAT IS ON Glen Frey 55 ( 57 ) HEARTLINE Robin George 56 ( 49 ) EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY Paul Young 57 ( NEW ) SO FAR AWAY Dire Straits 58 ( 34 ) CAN’T FIGHT THIS FEELING REO Speedwagon 59 ( 54 ) LEGS ZZ Top 60 ( NEW ) THE WORD GIRL Scritti Politti 61 ( 68 ) IMAGINATION Belouis Some 62 ( 60 ) IT’S...IT’S...THE SWEET MIX The Sweet 63 ( 56 ) GUN LAW The Kane Gang 64 ( 59 ) SHAFT Eddy And The Soul Band 65 ( NEW ) FEEL SO REAL Steve Arrington 66 ( NEW ) LUCKY IN LOVE Mick Jagger 67 ( 52 ) GRIMLY FIENDISH The Damned 68 ( 46 ) EASY LOVER Philip Bailey and Phil Collins 69 ( NEW ) PUT MY ARMS AROUND YOU Kevin iamspamspamamibr />70 ( NEW ) ROSES Haywoode 71 ( 70 ) THE POWER OF LOVE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 72 ( 69 ) THE BOYS OF SUMMER Don Henley 73 ( 44 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME Narada and Patti Austin 74 ( NEW ) BABY COME AND GET IT The Pointer Sisters 75 ( NEW ) I WANT YOUR LOVIN’ Curtis Hairston TV 27th Apr-May 3rd 1 The Young Ones: Flood 2 Cheers 3 Hill Street Blues 4 The Phil Silvers Show 5 Lou Grant 6 Bob Monkhouse Meets Joan Rivers 7 Top Of The Pops 8 The Max Headroom Show 9 Taxi 10 Newhart On TV, Bob Monkhouse met Joan Rivers and Joan was now into the big comedy league, and Bob was going through a career re-evaluation, from trashy gameshow host, to the comic’s comic, a gag-writer supreme. Max Headroom became the first computer animated TV star (sort of), hosting a new pop music show, a place to see loads of new music videos, hooray! He was also on his way to getting a chart hit before long. At work, Bob handed his notice in, which was gutting, and a kick up the ass reminder that I needed to start applying for more jobs too. So I did, lab assistant in a school, computer programmer trainee - damn, neither one came in trumps! On the plus side, I finally got all my records listed in an A to Z file as my collection was getting to be quite a size and I couldn’t always recall what records I had or didn’t have tucked away on compilation albums. 2,282 records in my collection. Got an invite to Paul and Sheila’s wedding in Rotherham, the last of my college friends to take the plunge, which was great news. I also wrote a song on my music computer this week. It was called Old Song On The Radio. Yes, well, maybe I should have sent it to Eurovision! |
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