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24th January 2015, 09:57 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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1st January 1980 New Years Day and very little chart movement, 2 new entries, 1 re-entry and not much else, but happily the first new number of the 80’s is a bonafide classic, as Pink Floyd find Another Brick In The Wall presiding over a chart that included David Bowie peaking at 4 again, second-time around with John I’m Only Dancing (the Again version is no great shakes), and The Skids getting their 3rd top 10 with the characteristically catchy punkpop Yankee Dollar. Macca continues to hang about outside the 10, as Styx, Sheila and Mike Oldfield creep into the 20, or Blue Peter Babe Spacer. Anne Murray re-enters with a bang at 25, Broken-Hearted Me, pleasant of course, cos Anne’s middle name was “nice”. Happily, I like nice, even if not’s cool to admit it. Let’s skip over that Bangor day trip going up, and instead comment on Stevie Wonder managing to get another top 40 song for over 11 years continuously, give or take. Earth Wind and Fire also grab another for 5 years of hits, they just Can’t Let Go. Highest actual new entry benefits from following up a good pop record, as Dr. Hook make it 8 years of hits at 48. Truth to tell the new bland version was not an improvement on the original quirky Medicine Show version, and Better Love Next Time is most definitely not up to the cover version of The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan a bit lower down for Marianne Faithful. Dennis Locorriere, voice of Hook, has much the same opinion these days and he avoids the singles from 1980 mostly, in concert (resident in England, he’s worth catching for his regular UK tours). The rest: classic London Calling only up to 50 (I didn’t warm to it right away), Kurtis Blow up to 67 (I just bought it at long last, downloaded and on my current playlist), and new at 71 it’s The Inmates with The Walk. Both this and Dr Hook were on Top Of The Pops, so that may or may not have influenced them entering my chart. The Inmates? A bluesy 50’s styled jaunty romp. I like it. Apart from Floyd, though, the videos this week are MOR, so put your feet up, relax, soak in the lazy vibes and just enjoy...! 1 ( 2 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 2 ( 3 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 3 ( 1 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 4 ( 5 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 5 ( 4 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 6 ( 6 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 7 ( 7 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 8 ( 10 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 9 ( 8 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 10 ( 12 ) WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR The Skids 11 ( 11 ) WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME Paul McCartney 12 ( 16 ) OFF THE WALL Michael Jackson 13 ( 9 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 14 ( 15 ) MOONLIGHT AND MUSAK M 15 ( 20 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 16 ( 13 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 17 ( 29 ) BABE Styx 18 ( 14 ) QUE SERA MI VIDA (IF YOU SHOULD GO) The Gibson Brothers 19 ( 21 ) SPACER Sheila and B. Devotion 20 ( 23 ) BLUE PETER Mike Oldfield 21 ( 28 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN The Beat 22 ( 19 ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 23 ( 17 ) DIAMOND SMILES The Boomtown Rats 24 ( 37 ) MY FEET KEEP DANCING Chic 25 ( RE ) BROKEN-HEARTED ME Anne Murray 26 ( 32 ) DAY TRIP TO BANGOR Fiddler’s Dram 27 ( 18 ) SING CHILDREN SING Lesley Duncan 28 ( 25 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 29 ( 26 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 30 ( 27 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 31 ( 24 ) RAPPER’S DELIGHT The Sugarhill Gang 32 ( 33 ) IT’S MY HOUSE Diana Ross 33 ( 22 ) UNION CITY BLUE Blondie 34 ( 34 ) IT’S MY HOUSE Storm 35 ( 46 ) SEND ONE YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 36 ( 35 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 37 ( 40 ) I’M BORN AGAIN Boney M 38 ( 30 ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 39 ( 55 ) CAN’T LET GO Earth Wind & Fire 40 ( 39 ) NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 41 ( 38 ) LIVING ON AN ISLAND Status Quo 42 ( 42 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 43 ( 43 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 44 ( 31 ) MONKEY CHOP Dan-I 45 ( 41 ) RISE Herb Alpert 46 ( 48 ) SARA Fleetwood Mac 47 ( 45 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 48 ( NEW ) BETTER LOVE NEXT TIME Dr. Hook 49 ( 49 ) IT WON’T SEEM LIKE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT YOU Elvis Presley 50 ( 62 ) LONDON CALLING The Clash 51 ( 36 ) BOMBER Motorhead 52 ( 44 ) MY SIMPLE HEART The Three Degrees 53 ( 53 ) CARS Gary Numan 54 ( 52 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 55 ( 47 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 56 ( 57 ) ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG) Rupert Holmes 57 ( 59 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 58 ( 58 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 59 ( 54 ) SAD EYES Robert John 60 ( 60 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 61 ( 63 ) ROCKABILLY REBEL Matchbox 62 ( 56 ) HOLD ON Ian Gomm 63 ( 51 ) SHE’S NOT THERE The UK Subs 64 ( 68 ) REET PETITE Darts 65 ( 50 ) TIRED OF TOEING THE LINE Rocky Burnette 66 ( 66 ) THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN Marianne Faithful 67 ( 75 ) CHRISTMAS RAPPIN’ Kurtis Blow 68 ( 71 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 69 ( 69 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 70 ( 70 ) ETON RIFLES The Jam 71 ( NEW ) THE WALK The Inmates 72 ( 72 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 73 ( 61 ) STILL The Commodores 74 ( 74 ) SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE Rainbow 75 ( 65 ) MELLOW MELLOW RIGHT ON Lowrell XMAS 1979 AND NEW YEAR 1980 TV CHART 1. The Poseidon Adventure: film 2. Help!: film 3. Top Of The Pops 1979 part 2 4. A Hard Day’s Night: film 5. Solid Gold Top 20 6. Soap 7. Play It Again Sam: film 8. Top Of The Pops 1979 part 1 9. Fawlty Towers 10. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum: film 11. The Three Musketeers: film 12. Goldfinger: film 13. Not The least Of The 9 O’clock News 14. Yellow Submarine: film 15. The Beatles At Shea Stadium 16. The Best Of Dean Martin 17. Let It Be; Film 18. Happy Days 19. Doctor Who 20. Parkinson at Christmas TV charts, well TOTP part 2 beats part 1, and there’s a host of blockbuster movies, and it’s Beatles galore week, sprinkled throughout my expanded chart. The only TV shows that can compete with that are Soap (yes it really was that good), and Fawlty Towers (ditto). Meanwhile, still in Gravesend with family friends Joe and Sandra, I went to see Star Trek at the cinema again, concluding the music score needed a bit more oomph to up the pacing but I was dazzled by having my cast of heroes back and the special effects, still, and it wouldn’t wear off for another decade or so, by which time the film seemed slow and ponderous, if charming at times. More Board games in Gravesend, then back for New Year in Mansfield, with Mark & Sue, popping in on grandparents, and finally buying Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Did some babysitting for lil cousins Rachel and Lisa. Mostly, though, college work to do. Emphasis on “to do” though as New Years Day Radio 1 had a bonanza 1970’s Top 100 all day long which I just could not (obviously) not listen to and write down. By the time it got to the top 10, the presence of Showaddywaddy as one of the big sellers of the 70’s had me doubting it’s accuracy, and then some. Turns out now, it’s a million seller with downloads after all, but even so, top 10 is not accurate. These things matter to chart-list-freaks...! So, for the end of the 70’s and start of the 80’s? How did I celebrate it? Partying? Pub? Nah. Mum wasn’t well so I stayed in with her while Dad Mark and Sue went round to Aunty Eileen’s party, so that meant I got to see the hilarious “Will Kenny Everett Make It To 1980 Show” with Cliff, Bowie, Boomtown Rats, Roxy Music as guests. The last record I heard in the 70’s? A Merry Jingle by The Greedies, with my parting words “Well hope 1980’s as good as 1979’s been (on the whole). Doubt it somehow, but keep fingers crossed nothing too bad will happen.” That’s me always glass half-empty! 1979 was a fabulous year for me. 1980 was a year of two halves, the first half fab, the second half a slippery slope downwards - at least that’s how I remember it, let’s see if the diary bears it out (I’ve not looked at these ever before, so this is a real trip down memory lane for me..)! |
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24th January 2015, 04:44 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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8th January 1980
Back up on top for a second week, Abba have a dream, and it’s a kiddie-singing sweet one, enough to keep The Pretenders off the top spot. Paul McCartney, well after christmas festivities have faded, finally gets into the top 10 giving him his first actual solo Top 10 hit since 1971 chart-topper Another Day. Of course he worked in the interim as Wings and when he wasn’t having a number one he was at least Top 10 in each of those years. Not to mention The Beatles... Talking of The Beatles, Billy Preston hit the Top 5 in 1969 with The Fabs credited “with Billy Preston” on Get Back, and charted again in 1974, and again in 1976, with it. On his own he’d grabbed a top 10 slot in 1969 with That’s The Way God Planned It on The Beatles Apple label before branching out on solo funk hit instrumentals and non-instrumentals in the USA from 1972 onwards, which were chart ineligible in my charts (UK only charts in 1972/3) but Outa Space and Will It Go Round In Circles, among others, would otherwise have charted. So it was great to have him back duetting with Syreeta (also returning after a 5 year-gap) on the lovely With You I’m Born Again, a touching, sentimental song given class by the two vocalists. Chic at last make the top 20, My Feet Keep Dancin’ knocking out another Chic hit, Spacer, while the fourth title track single from the album Spirits Having Flown enters at 23 for The Bee Gees, underperforming chart-wise in the UK and USA by their standards, but then it had been out a year already. One of my favourite Bee Gees records, I love the melody, the vocals and the arrangement, top notch and under-rated. The Greedies belatedly get their christmas track in at 38, after a New Years Eve performance on TV - that’s Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy and the non-singing half of the Sex Pistols - A Merry Jingle combining christmas standards in a medley, and fun. At 47 Madness get a 3rd hit, the terrific My Girl (who’s mad at them apparently), Joe Jackson gets a 2nd hit It’s Different For Girls, a pretty good ballad, at 64, and one of the songs that grew to annoy me greatly from saturation plays, and it’s simple catchiness, I’m In The Mood For Dancing in at 71, The Nolans having dropped a Sisters and added an “s” and going for the wholesome disco pop market. Amusingly, nestling next to Motorhead and Bomber. Well it amuses me, at any rate, Bomber still sounds good (just downloaded it) and as is far away as you can get from The Nolans. 1 ( 3 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 2 ( 6 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 3 ( 1 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 4 ( 4 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 5 ( 2 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 6 ( 5 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 7 ( 8 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 8 ( 10 ) WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR The Skids 9 ( 7 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 10 ( 11 ) WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME Paul McCartney 11 ( 12 ) OFF THE WALL Michael Jackson 12 ( 9 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 13 ( NEW ) WITH YOU I’M BORN AGAIN Billy Preston and Syreeta 14 ( 14 ) MOONLIGHT AND MUSAK M 15 ( 16 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 16 ( 17 ) BABE Styx 17 ( 13 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 18 ( 24 ) MY FEET KEEP DANCING Chic 19 ( 21 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN The Beat 20 ( 20 ) BLUE PETER Mike Oldfield 21 ( 19 ) SPACER Sheila and B. Devotion 22 ( 18 ) QUE SERA MI VIDA (IF YOU SHOULD GO) The Gibson Brothers 23 ( NEW ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 24 ( 26 ) DAY TRIP TO BANGOR Fiddler’s Dram 25 ( 27 ) SING CHILDREN SING Lesley Duncan 26 ( 25 ) BROKEN-HEARTED ME Anne Murray 27 ( 15 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 28 ( 39 ) CAN’T LET GO Earth Wind & Fire 29 ( 32 ) IT’S MY HOUSE Diana Ross 30 ( 28 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 31 ( 33 ) UNION CITY BLUE Blondie 32 ( 22 ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 33 ( 31 ) RAPPER’S DELIGHT The Sugarhill Gang 34 ( 30 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 35 ( 29 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 36 ( 23 ) DIAMOND SMILES The Boomtown Rats 37 ( 37 ) I’M BORN AGAIN Boney M 38 ( NEW ) A MERRY JINGLE The Greedies 39 ( 36 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 40 ( 49 ) IT WON’T SEEM LIKE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT YOU Elvis Presley 41 ( 50 ) LONDON CALLING The Clash 42 ( 47 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 43 ( 42 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 44 ( 43 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 45 ( 48 ) BETTER LOVE NEXT TIME Dr. Hook 46 ( 41 ) LIVING ON AN ISLAND Status Quo 47 ( NEW ) MY GIRL Madness 48 ( 45 ) RISE Herb Alpert 49 ( 38 ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 50 ( 67 ) CHRISTMAS RAPPIN’ Kurtis Blow 51 ( 46 ) SARA Fleetwood Mac 52 ( 40 ) NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 53 ( 56 ) ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG) Rupert Holmes 54 ( 53 ) CARS Gary Numan 55 ( 54 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 56 ( 35 ) SEND ONE YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 57 ( 44 ) MONKEY CHOP Dan-I 58 ( 57 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 59 ( 58 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 60 ( 60 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 61 ( 34 ) IT'S MY HOUSE Storm 62 ( 55 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 63 ( 59 ) SAD EYES Robert John 64 ( NEW ) IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS Joe Jackson 65 ( 52 ) MY SIMPLE HEART The Three Degrees 66 ( 62 ) HOLD ON Ian Gomm 67 ( 71 ) THE WALK The Inmates 68 ( 61 ) ROCKABILLY REBEL Matchbox 69 ( 69 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 70 ( 68 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 71 ( NEW ) I’M IN THE MOOD FOR DANCING The Nolans 72 ( 51 ) BOMBER Motorhead 73 ( 72 ) SAIL ON The Commodores 74 ( 70 ) ETON RIFLES The Jam 75 ( 64 ) REET PETITE Darts TV Dec 29th 1979 - Jan 4th 1980 1. Will Kenny Everett Make It To 1980 Show 2. Logan’s Run: Crypt 3. Paint Your Wagon: film 4. Soap 5. Murder On The Orient Express: film 6. Mork And Mindy 7. The Recorded Jasper Carrott 8. The Odessa File: film 9. Film ’80 10. Top Of The Pops 11. Fawlty Towers 12. Victor Borge 13. Nationwide 14. Doctor Who 15. The Night They Took Miss Beautiful 16. The Odd Couple 17. Parkinson 18. My Wife Next Door 19. Up A Gum Tree 20. Mork And Mindy On TV, Kenny Everett’s New Years show rules, but note another great comic on the list - no not Jasper Carrott (though he’s good too), it’s Victor Borge. A Danish classical pianist and conductor taught by a former pupil of Liszt. He gave his first concert in 1926, escaped from the Nazi’s in WW2 after years of telling anti-nazi jokes, and eventually became a big TV star thanks to his great comic timing and amiable accent and manner, sat at his piano. I used to regularly (not literally) piss myself laughing at him, he was great, and already 70 (he died in 2000) as with so many of my comedy heroes, being of retirement age is meaningless. If you got it you got it! The other TV note is for Logan’s Run episode Crypt, at 2, written by Harlan Ellison (Star Trek: City On The Edge Of Forever writer and sci-fi novelist) which was the best episode by far of the short-lived series. Age is a big thing in Logan’s Run, of course, as you get to exit the world at age 30 one way or another. A bit like Radio One. Tuesday, January 1st: I started 1980 doing College work, and the first record of the decade? My Simple Heart (Three Degrees)...oh, well! Barry Norman listed Alien and Life Of Brian as 2 of his dozen films of the year. Spot on, there! Turned 22 on Thursday, freezing and icy, and no prezzies to mark my new adult status. Well, a coat from mum & dad. Cousins Rachel & Lisa round saturday morning babysitting, with Sue, and off to see (again!) Star Trek at the cinema. This time some 11 & 12 year old’s decided it was boring and just talked and broke things and made noises, my brother threatened them to no avail, so I said “Do you wanna get chucked out?! Be Quiet!” They got worse, and bruv was in danger of getting physical with the little bleeders so I went for the usher and got them thrown out of the cinema. Ruined the film, of course. I’m mild-mannered, but nobody spoils Star Trek without consequences! Not a film for children, obviously, though. Back to Lincoln College, Mark saw my college room for the first time, before he and ailing mum and dad left for home, and fab catch up chats with Joe, Sue, Julie and Ian. Julie and I discussed topics: Afghanistan situation (Russian troops), Nostradamus (!), WW2... Pete popped round, they both liked the Trek movie “slow but good” (J) and “brilliant, knocked out” (P). My new coat seemed to go down well with everyone. Pity I don’t remember it now. Never was bothered with fashion! caught up with Jane, Bev and Paul the next day, but Jane thoughtfully brought me an electric fire as my room was freezing - heating not working. |
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28th January 2015, 10:42 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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15th January 1980 The Pretenders get to the top, as I seem to be holding the same chart-topper opinions as the UK record-buyer (plus Abba), and Brass In Pocket was a worthy number one, New Wave with a 60’s vibe, Chrissie Hynde fronting a great British band, like Suzi Quatro before her, an American with British success, and based in the UK. It also sounded pretty original. KC meanwhile gets his first top 5 hit since 1975, Syreeta her first top 10 since 1975, and Billy Preston his first new top 10 since 1969. The Bee Gees fly up into the upper layers too, with their 8th consecutive top 10, plus several as songwriters, and all inside 3 years. Bung in another, ooh, 10 or so since appearing in the very first chart in 1968, and things were looking very good for them. Appearances can be very deceptive in the music biz though! Madness take My Girl to 9, and a second top 10 hit, just ahead of The Beat who copy Smokey Robinson by going top 10, albeit ska-stylee. Highest new entry is a UK non-hit instrumental classic from the early 60’s, the groovy, moody Green Onions, giving Booker T his first hit in 11 years. It was to be an incredible 34 years before he got his 3rd! Or if you like, 45 years between new recordings charting. It’s hard to see that record being beaten! Fleetwood Mac at last start to get moving with the truly wondrous Sara, at 26, and The Clash finally get London Calling into the 40. So does Kurtis Blow, and so do The Nolans. I guess I must have liked it for a while! New entries between 41 and 75: The Boomtown Rats return with another hit, Someone’s Looking At You, which was a little more sprawling than previous singles, but did the job, while at 53 there’s a new duo, Jon and Vangelis. I say new. What I mean is Vangelis gets a follow-up hit to his 1975 reissued chart entry of a 1972 single from Greek band Aphrodite’s Child, the fabulous Break. In the interim, bandmate Demis Roussos had had a number one with Forever And Ever, so can he do what the late Demis did? All shall be revealed. Jon Anderson, meanwhile, is back after a couple of hits with Yes, including the fab top 10 Wondrous Stories from 1977. New Musik get their second hit, Living By Numbers being another delicious perfect synth pop confection. Terrific. Talking earlier of Suzi Quatro, her Mama’s Boy joins her in the charts for a sweet 7 years of regular chart entries, but sadly never a number one. This one was pretty decent. Sister Sledge were winding down their initial run of chart action with the OK Got To Love Somebody, unique out of their early tracks in not ever making the charts again in following decades, again and again. It wasn’t bad, but not up to the classics standard. 1 ( 2 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 2 ( 1 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 3 ( 3 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 4 ( 7 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 5 ( 5 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 6 ( 13 ) WITH YOU I’M BORN AGAIN Billy Preston and Syreeta 7 ( 6 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 8 ( 23 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 9 ( 47 ) MY GIRL Madness 10 ( 19 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN The Beat 11 ( 4 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 12 ( 14 ) MOONLIGHT AND MUSAK M 13 ( 20 ) BLUE PETER Mike Oldfield 14 ( 9 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 15 ( 16 ) BABE Styx 16 ( 8 ) WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR The Skids 17 ( 15 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 18 ( 18 ) MY FEET KEEP DANCING Chic 19 ( 27 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 20 ( 12 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 21 ( 21 ) SPACER Sheila and B. Devotion 22 ( 24 ) DAY TRIP TO BANGOR Fiddler’s Dram 23 ( 11 ) OFF THE WALL Michael Jackson 24 ( 17 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 25 ( NEW ) GREEN ONIONS Booker T. and The MG’s 26 ( 51 ) SARA Fleetwood Mac 27 ( 10 ) WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME Paul McCartney 28 ( 40 ) IT WON’T SEEM LIKE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT YOU Elvis Presley 29 ( 41 ) LONDON CALLING The Clash 30 ( 22 ) QUE SERA MI VIDA (IF YOU SHOULD GO) The Gibson Brothers 31 ( 37 ) I’M BORN AGAIN Boney M 32 ( 30 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 33 ( 71 ) I’M IN THE MOOD FOR DANCING The Nolans 34 ( 28 ) CAN’T LET GO Earth Wind & Fire 35 ( 50 ) CHRISTMAS RAPPIN’ Kurtis Blow 36 ( 25 ) SING CHILDREN SING Lesley Duncan 37 ( 34 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 38 ( 45 ) BETTER LOVE NEXT TIME Dr. Hook 39 ( 39 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 40 ( 35 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 41 ( 33 ) RAPPER’S DELIGHT The Sugarhill Gang 42 ( 29 ) IT’S MY HOUSE Diana Ross 43 ( 64 ) IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS Joe Jackson 44 ( 31 ) UNION CITY BLUE Blondie 45 ( 32 ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 46 ( 36 ) DIAMOND SMILES The Boomtown Rats 47 ( 44 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 48 ( 43 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 49 ( 53 ) ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG) Rupert Holmes 50 ( NEW ) SOMEONE’S LOOKING AT YOU The Boomtown Rats 51 ( 42 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 52 ( 67 ) THE WALK The Inmates 53 ( NEW ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 54 ( 26 ) BROKEN-HEARTED ME Anne Murray 55 ( 48 ) RISE Herb Alpert 56 ( 46 ) LIVING ON AN ISLAND Status Quo 57 ( NEW ) LIVING BY NUMBERS New Musik 58 ( 54 ) CARS Gary Numan 59 ( 55 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 60 ( 58 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 61 ( 59 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 62 ( 49 ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 63 ( 60 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 64 ( 38 ) A MERRY JINGLE The Greedies 65 ( NEW ) QUOTE GOODBYE QUOTE Carolyn Mas 66 ( 62 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 67 ( 63 ) SAD EYES Robert John 68 ( NEW ) MAMA’S BOY Suzi Quatro 69 ( 57 ) MONKEY CHOP Dan-I 70 ( 52 ) NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 71 ( 69 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 72 ( 65 ) MY SIMPLE HEART The Three Degrees 73 ( 70 ) WE DON'T TALK ANYMORE Cliff Richard 74 ( NEW ) GOT TO LOVE SOMEBODY Sister Sledge 75 ( 56 ) SEND ONE YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder Jan 5-11 TV 1. Soap 1. Clapperboard 1. Fawlty Towers 4. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 5. MASH 6. The Rockford Files 7. Top Of The Pops 8. The Hot Rock: film 9. Logan’s Run 10. My Wife Next Door 11. Film 80 12. Barney Miller 13. Blake’s 7 14. West Side Story: film 15. Parkinson (sat) 16. Doctor Who 17. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot: film 18. Hollywood 19. Nationwide 20. Parkinson (wed) On TV: lots of films, many of them rarely ever on TV, if at all for some decades, but 1972’s forgotten The Hot Rock was a heist movie I was fond of under it’s 1972 title, How To Steal A Diamond In Four Uneasy Lessons. Bad title change there! It was a fun Robert Redford movie that I saw first time round. Soap heads the US sitcoms, Fawlty Towers the UK, but there’s not that many actual 1979/80 new sitcoms or series in the list, bar MASH, Rockford, Blake’s 7, and Doctor Who. At College (or Uni as it’s now renamed), I found my lecturer hated Edgar Allen Poe, so fundamentally disagreed with everything I wrote in my assignment, giving me bad marks. He thought Poe was Poo and could not accept any other viewpoint, however well argued. Dick. Lots of happy socialising with the gang in various combinations, in the breaks and evenings, chez moi. Got invited to 2 birthday parties on the same day which gave me (and invited Julie) a dilemma, never one for wanting to hurt people’s feelings, either of us. Doh! On telly, we laughed at Basil The Hamster in Farty Towels, and tried to hold back the tears at West Side Story’s climax. As we played snooker on Thursday I marvelled at my quick-wit banter, at least Jane and Pete appreciated it anyway, which led me to think I was “quite hilarious at times”. Oooo get ‘er! I do love banter though, and people who love banter. Sue, as practical as always, sorted out the clashing parties dilemma diplomatically - and they didn’t clash anyway, so Julie and I had angst for nothing! It snowed heavily on Monday, it was cold and I was in a foul mood with a lecturer who kept me waiting for 45 minutes, then droned on needlessly about William Golding stuff I already knew, while simultaneously wafting his aroma all over the place. At least that’s how I choose to describe him these many years later, as the “smelly twat” I put in my diary seems a tad unkind. Still, Pete and Julie cheered me up by ambushing me with snowballs later on. On TV the new Blake’s 7 was much improved, with new cast members, and Avon now the star character. Actor Paul Darrow and I shared an intimate moment 25 years later. I say intimate. He said “Hello mate” while he grabbed a ciggie outside the Starfleet Ball in Bournemouth. I always view a star talking me as special.... |
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30th January 2015, 10:02 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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22nd January 1980
2 weeks for Brass In Pocket at 1, Chrissie not moving. Styx get their first (and last) Top 10, as Babe blubs it’s way up to 8, and Dollar finally get their Beatles cover into the top 10 - the 60’s fab gear clothes on their Top Of The Pops performance didn’t hurt! Suddenly I was 6 years old again! Jon And Vangelis meanwhile positively rocket up to 12, I Hear You Now, oh yes, as another sublime record hits 14 for Fleetwood Mac, and Stevie Nicks gorgeous Sara. Rupert Holmes also downs his Pina Colada in one and bursts upwards and into the 20 for the first time since 1975. Lower down, The Rats and New Musik go top 40, and there’s very few new entries: The Buggles follow-up Video with Plastic, and it’s pretty good, albeit forgotten these days, we do indeed live in The Plastic Age. Sad Cafe have a strange little follow-up to a plain ballad, the quirky little girl at 52 is quite odd, but endearing after a few plays. Amii Stewart flies her sweet Paradise Bird to 57, and The Regents unusual 7 Teen is in at 68, very downbeat and 60’s inspired, if not actually sounding. Herb Alpert ain’t Rise-ing, but he is Rotating, at 74, another funky sax instrumental (mostly), and still classy. 1 ( 1 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 2 ( 2 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 3 ( 4 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 4 ( 3 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 5 ( 8 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 6 ( 9 ) MY GIRL Madness 7 ( 5 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 8 ( 15 ) BABE Styx 9 ( 19 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 10 ( 10 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN The Beat 11 ( 6 ) WITH YOU I’M BORN AGAIN Billy Preston and Syreeta 12 ( 53 ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 13 ( 7 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 14 ( 26 ) SARA Fleetwood Mac 15 ( 49 ) ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG) Rupert Holmes 16 ( 16 ) WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR The Skids 17 ( 17 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 18 ( 14 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 19 ( 18 ) MY FEET KEEP DANCING Chic 20 ( 25 ) GREEN ONIONS Booker T. and The MG’s 21 ( 12 ) MOONLIGHT AND MUSAK M 22 ( 20 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 23 ( 21 ) SPACER Sheila and B. Devotion 24 ( 13 ) BLUE PETER Mike Oldfield 25 ( 11 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 26 ( 33 ) I’M IN THE MOOD FOR DANCING The Nolans 27 ( 22 ) DAY TRIP TO BANGOR Fiddler’s Dram 28 ( 38 ) BETTER LOVE NEXT TIME Dr. Hook 29 ( 43 ) IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS Joe Jackson 30 ( 29 ) LONDON CALLING The Clash 31 ( 32 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 32 ( 24 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 33 ( 23 ) OFF THE WALL Michael Jackson 34 ( 50 ) SOMEONE’S LOOKING AT YOU The Boomtown Rats 35 ( 57 ) LIVING BY NUMBERS New Musik 36 ( 39 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 37 ( 37 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 38 ( 30 ) QUE SERA MI VIDA (IF YOU SHOULD GO) The Gibson Brothers 39 ( 52 ) THE WALK The Inmates 40 ( 40 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 41 ( 36 ) SING CHILDREN SING Lesley Duncan 42 ( 28 ) IT WON’T SEEM LIKE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT YOU Elvis Presley 43 ( 47 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 44 ( 48 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 45 ( 27 ) WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME Paul McCartney 46 ( 34 ) CAN’T LET GO Earth Wind & Fire 47 ( 45 ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 48 ( 46 ) DIAMOND SMILES The Boomtown Rats 49 ( 44 ) UNION CITY BLUE Blondie 50 ( NEW ) THE PLASTIC AGE The Buggles 51 ( 51 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 52 ( NEW ) STRANGE LITTLE GIRL Sad Cafe 53 ( 41 ) RAPPER’S DELIGHT The Sugarhill Gang 54 ( 60 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 55 ( NEW ) WE GOT THE FUNK Positive Force 56 ( 65 ) QUOTE GOODBYE QUOTE Carolyn Mas 57 ( NEW ) PARADISE BIRD Amii Stewart 58 ( 55 ) RISE Herb Alpert 59 ( 61 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 60 ( 68 ) MAMA’S BOY Suzi Quatro 61 ( 58 ) CARS Gary Numan 62 ( 59 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 63 ( 63 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 64 ( 31 ) I’M BORN AGAIN Boney M 65 ( 35 ) CHRISTMAS RAPPIN’ Kurtis Blow 66 ( 42 ) IT’S MY HOUSE Diana Ross 67 ( 74 ) GOT TO LOVE SOMEBODY Sister Sledge 68 ( NEW ) 7 TEEN The Regents 69 ( 54 ) BROKEN-HEARTED ME Anne Murray 70 ( 71 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 71 ( 66 ) BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 72 ( 67 ) SAD EYES Robert John 73 ( 62 ) KNOCKED IT OFF B.A. Robertson 74 ( NEW ) ROTATION Herb Alpert 75 ( NEW ) YOUNG BLOOD U.F.O. TV JAN 12-18 1. Soap 2. The Goodies 3. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 4. Logan’s Run 5. The Hallelujah Trail: film 6. Blake’s 7 7. Mork And Mindy 8. Barney Miller 9. Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man 10. Top Of The Pops 11. The New Avengers 12. Wildlife On One 13. Doctor Who 14. The Two Ronnies 15. The Odd Couple 16. The High Chapparal 17. My Wife Next Door 18. Film 80 19. Sporting Superstars 20. Most Wanted On TV, sci-fi writer hero of mine (one of my top 3) Ray Bradbury gets a profile, his writings are poetically nostalgic in a futuristic social-commentary fashion, and I especially adore the short stories, The Martian Chronicles most of all. The Goodies are back with a bang, various sporting superstars compete for entertainment in a variety of events, the fab Western The Hallelujah Trail is on again, and The Two Ronnies must have a good show, as they didn’t generally end up in my list by this time. At college I breakfasted with Pauline and some more American students on my course, while mates Pete and Ian popped in for a morning cuppa and chat having got the day off teaching practice - their bus didn’t turn up. Result! Snooker with Pete after Art lectures, I won 84 to 39 it says here. It’s not the winning that counts, I honestly care not either way! Though I enjoy winning. It was a great day, Pete chuffed to be off school-work, me chuffed having someone to talk to during the day, yay! I cheered up the glum T.P. returnees later on, then they all beat me at snooker in gratitude. Win some lose some! Talked to Jane for an hour, lately quite rundown, but feeling better now. Hooray! Went home at the weekend, as my pet budgie (still had a white one in the house) was ill, as were brother Mark & soon-to-be sis-in-law. I bought a fave John Wyndham novel that I read at school in 1972, The Chrysalids. I re-read it not long ago, it’s still pretty good, still relevant in showcasing intolerance of people (genetic-defects some generations following a nuclear holocaust). Mark showed us all his latest toy, movies of all of us on his film recorder, actual old-fashioned film, including one scene of me playing The Police Walking On The Moon in my bedroom - tragically this film is long gone walkabout. Popped in on various relations, and dad, mum and Mark took me back on Sunday to Lincoln via RAF Swinderby (where dad still worked) - I’d bought a cassette tape deck for £15 off someone, which meant I could now tape all of the songs off the radio to tape. Still have them! |
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2nd February 2015, 01:29 AM
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Some fantastic stuff here like Pretenders, Madness and Sheila & B Devotion especially. Also quite like a couple that I hadn't heard prior to watching TOTP 1980 a few days ago like the Sad Café one, very ELO in places I thought and Amii Stewart.
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2nd February 2015, 07:49 AM
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Some fantastic stuff here like Pretenders, Madness and Sheila & B Devotion especially. Also quite like a couple that I hadn't heard prior to watching TOTP 1980 a few days ago like the Sad Café one, very ELO in places I thought and Amii Stewart. Much prefer Straight Lines over Living By Numbers by New Muzik, the former should have been a massive hit. Thanks AH, I agree Straight Lines was better than Living By Numbers, then again I think the singles after LBN were also better, but the whole album is pretty consistent: From A To B. |
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2nd February 2015, 08:07 PM
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29th January 1980
3 weeks on top for The Pretenders as 12 new entries finally kick-start 1980, many of them great. The Bee Gees get yet another runners-up medal with the fab Spirits Having Flown, as Madness get their first Top 3 with the very British charms of My Girl. Fleetwood Mac’s classic Sara also goes top 10, despite not being huge in the UK. It should have been massive! Meanwhile Sheila’s Chic-tastic Spacer’s yo-yoing up and down the charts almost takes her into orbit as it peaks at 13. The Boomtown rats and New Musik leap into the 20, just ahead of the highest new entry, yes it’s Matchbox following up a very minor chart entry with an instant smash - Buzz Buzz A Diddle It! I love it, British rockabilly in the style of classic cowboy novelty song Three Wheels On My Wagon, and it beats out: Michael Jackson’s classic Rock With You at 24, exquisite soulfunk mellow disco, and still great; Prince, debuting at 54 with a dance track largely forgotten, I Wanna Be Your Lover. It’s pretty good, and there is a youtube link someone put on 2 months ago, but I won’t bother listing it as it’ll be removed before long, Prince being obsessive about people not listening to his music for free and all, even if you want to check it out to buy (which I do as I never bought it at the time). Minus one sale, then. The Buggles and Suzi Quatro make the top 40, while 60‘s hippie band Jefferson Airplane suffer a pop metal morphing into Jefferson Starship, and the rock anthem Jane riffs in at 67. 70‘s Prog Rock band Barclay James Harvest also do a spot of morphing, adding some 80’s-stylee synths to terrific effect at 73, with Love On The Line. At 34, The Specials get a 3rd hit with future UK chart-topper Too Much Too Young, the lead track on an EP, live version, and one to pogo along to. Kool And The Gang return with the pleasant Too Hot at 55, the theme tune to American TV’s classic Soap sitcom jaunts in at 70, mostly cos I loved the show, it was a total departure for American sitcoms, with a stunningly huge talented cast, controversial themes which had all kinds of self-righteous narrow-minded groups up in arms, and basically took the piss out of TV, and soaps in particular, pretty much all episodes written by one writer Susan “Golden Girls” Harris. Others: a bit of jazz funk (Azymuth), a bit of country (Kenny Rogers soon-to-be-annoying Coward Of The County, as it hits number one and suffers overdose-fatigue), The Captain and Tennille are back with a gentle ballad 5 years after topping my chart, the sweetly naughty Do That To Me One More Time (I wonder what Toni means?), and The Ramones cover Phil Spector’s Ronettes classic Baby I Love You, produced by the actual warped genius himself, and sounding much weedier and less Wall Of Sound than Dave Edmunds self-produced definitive version which topped my chart in 1973. 1 ( 1 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 2 ( 5 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 3 ( 6 ) MY GIRL Madness 4 ( 2 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 5 ( 8 ) BABE Styx 6 ( 12 ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 7 ( 3 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 8 ( 4 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 9 ( 9 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 10 ( 14 ) SARA Fleetwood Mac 11 ( 20 ) GREEN ONIONS Booker T. and The MG’s 12 ( 7 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 13 ( 23 ) SPACER Sheila and B. Devotion 14 ( 15 ) ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG) Rupert Holmes 15 ( 34 ) SOMEONE’S LOOKING AT YOU The Boomtown Rats 16 ( 13 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 17 ( 10 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN The Beat 18 ( 35 ) LIVING BY NUMBERS New Musik 19 ( 11 ) WITH YOU I’M BORN AGAIN Billy Preston and Syreeta 20 ( NEW ) BUZZ BUZZ A DIDDLE IT Matchbox 21 ( 68 ) 7 TEEN The Regents 22 ( 18 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 23 ( 28 ) BETTER LOVE NEXT TIME Dr. Hook 24 ( NEW ) ROCK WITH YOU Michael Jackson 25 ( 29 ) IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS Joe Jackson 26 ( 22 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 27 ( 19 ) MY FEET KEEP DANCING Chic 28 ( 17 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 29 ( 16 ) WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR The Skids 30 ( 50 ) THE PLASTIC AGE The Buggles 31 ( 31 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 32 ( 27 ) DAY TRIP TO BANGOR Fiddler’s Dram 33 ( 32 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 34 ( NEW ) TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG The Special AKA 35 ( 52 ) STRANGE LITTLE GIRL Sad Cafe 36 ( 57 ) PARADISE BIRD Amii Stewart 37 ( 21 ) MOONLIGHT AND MUSAK M 38 ( 55 ) WE GOT THE FUNK Positive Force 39 ( 60 ) MAMA’S BOY Suzi Quatro 40 ( 36 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 41 ( 24 ) BLUE PETER Mike Oldfield 42 ( 37 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 43 ( 26 ) I’M IN THE MOOD FOR DANCING The Nolans 44 ( 25 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 45 ( 43 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 46 ( 44 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 47 ( 33 ) OFF THE WALL Michael Jackson 48 ( 51 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 49 ( 40 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 50 ( 38 ) QUE SERA MI VIDA (IF YOU SHOULD GO) The Gibson Brothers 51 ( 56 ) QUOTE GOODBYE QUOTE Carolyn Mas 52 ( 39 ) THE WALK The Inmates 53 ( 67 ) GOT TO LOVE SOMEBODY Sister Sledge 54 ( NEW ) I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER Prince 55 ( NEW ) TOO HOT Kool And The Gang 56 ( 47 ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 57 ( 54 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 58 ( 59 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 59 ( 30 ) LONDON CALLING The Clash 60 ( 74 ) ROTATION Herb Alpert 61 ( 58 ) RISE Herb Alpert 62 ( 61 ) CARS Gary Numan 63 ( 63 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 64 ( 48 ) DIAMOND SMILES The Boomtown Rats 65 ( 62 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 66 ( 49 ) UNION CITY BLUE Blondie 67 ( NEW ) JANE Jefferson Starship 68 ( 70 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 69 ( 41 ) SING CHILDREN SING Lesley Duncan 70 ( NEW ) THEME FROM ‘SOAP” George Aliceson Tipton 71 ( NEW ) JAZZ CARNIVAL Azymuth 72 ( NEW ) COWARD OF THE COUNTY Kenny Rogers 73 ( NEW ) LOVE ON THE LINE Barclay James Harvest 74 ( NEW ) DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME Captain and Tennille 75 ( NEW ) BABY I LOVE YOU The Ramones TV JAN 19-26 1. Live And Let Die: film 2. Soap 3. Logan’s Run 3. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 5. Disaster On The Coastliner: TV film 6. The New Avengers 7. Play Misty For Me: film 8. Barney Miller 9. MASH 10. Top Of The Pops 11. Blake’s 7 12. The Rockford Files 13. The Two Ronnies 14. The Goodies 15. Wonder Woman College: another snowstorm, another awkward bus driver, another day off from Teaching Practice for Pete, Alan and Ian who instead popped to my room for some laughs instead. yay! Helped me avoid William Golding work. I later looked at some schoolbooks from me at 6, stories of what I did, liked and drew at that time: sci-fi, pop music, TV, animals. Not much change there then. Still. Tuesday was English Lit: School For Scandal. Wednesday I socialised in the art-room while I finished my screen-prints - I enjoy art students company. Thursday Pete off ill, so we hung about a lot in between lectures, and the evenings had the usual gang coming and going. Friday was Elaine’s birthday bash from 11pm, a drunken gangster’s moll tried to get me to dance (fancy dress, not real!) and laughs and jokes with Ian and Julie till 1. |
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3rd March 2015, 08:57 PM
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5th February 1980
Jon And Vangelis get that chart-topper with the gorgeous, ethereal, gentle synth-friendly I Hear You Now. Jon Anderson had been the voice of 1977 Top 3 Wondrous Stories (with Yes) and Vangelis had been behind the fantastic Aphrodite’s Child belated 1975 biggie Break (though would have charted in 1972, if eligible). Up 30 places to 4, hard on their heels it’s The Specials second Top 10 hit, Too Much Too Young, outdoing even the way better Gangsters. Booker T gets those Green Onions to 6, and the Rats get a 5th consecutive Top 10, and 8th Top 20, as Someone’s Looking At You at 9. New Musik get their first top tenner, clearly Living By Numbers. There’s a Jazz Carnival parading through the charts to 26, as shhh The Whispers get the highest new entry at 29, And The Beat Goes On, a pretty good soul funk dance groove, though they seemed to be getting more smooth and less funky as disco booms before the Disco Sucks movement killed them all off en masse. At 34, it’s John Foxx, not always a barrel of laughs, ex-Ultravox-man who went solo with initial success before Midge Ure somewhat overshadowed his career. Underpass was OK, though to me it always sounded like Underpants when he sang the chorus. I sent a lampoon cartoon of pet peeves of the time (John Foxx, Doctor Hook etc) to Record Mirror, the Editor actually replied and told me they weren’t very good and perhaps Art College would help. Errr I was doing an art course at College, at the time. Oops! Never mind, I’m now spouting my opinions on the internet and Record Mirror alas is no more. 35? Kool And The Gang, dang, it’s Too Hot. One of their better tracks actually. Barclay James Harvest go top 40, laying their Love On The Line, very nicely. Other newies: Billy Ocean’s back at 47, Are You Ready? I’ve been ready for 6 years of his hits (starting with Scorched Earth stomping fabulousness On The Run)! Don’t recall this one, yoohootube (it’s OK Jacko-stylee disco)! I do recall 51, Captain Beaky, and Keith Michell is back 9 years on from I’ll Give You The Earth, with kiddie classic written by the late Jeremy Lloyd, he of Laugh-In fame, and sitcom scripter a la Are You Being Served. It’s actually pretty good really for a novelty song. Leaving The Shadows back at 56 with an instrumental cover of classic cowboy song Riders In The Sky, a childhood fave with all of it’s yippee-aye-ey’s and fab toon. 5 years on from Eurovision too! Queen, 63, Save Me, quite nice but a bit on the slow slow quick quick slow side. The Selecter prove they aren’t Three Minute Hero’s at 70, their second ska hit, and I regret missing Pauline the other saturday in Southampton, I had to cancel to look after my parents. 1 ( 6 ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 2 ( 2 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 3 ( 3 ) MY GIRL Madness 4 ( 34 ) TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG The Special AKA 5 ( 1 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 6 ( 11 ) GREEN ONIONS Booker T. and The MG’s 7 ( 4 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 8 ( 5 ) BABE Styx 9 ( 15 ) SOMEONE’S LOOKING AT YOU The Boomtown Rats 10 ( 18 ) LIVING BY NUMBERS New Musik 11 ( 8 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 12 ( 21 ) 7 TEEN The Regents 13 ( 25 ) IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS Joe Jackson 14 ( 7 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 15 ( 9 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 16 ( 20 ) BUZZ BUZZ A DIDDLE IT Matchbox 17 ( 14 ) ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG) Rupert Holmes 18 ( 13 ) SPACER Sheila and B. Devotion 19 ( 12 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 20 ( 30 ) THE PLASTIC AGE The Buggles 21 ( 10 ) SARA Fleetwood Mac 22 ( 39 ) MAMA’S BOY Suzi Quatro 23 ( 24 ) ROCK WITH YOU Michael Jackson 24 ( 19 ) WITH YOU I’M BORN AGAIN Billy Preston and Syreeta 25 ( 16 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 26 ( 71 ) JAZZ CARNIVAL Azymuth 27 ( 22 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 28 ( 17 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN The Beat 29 ( NEW ) AND THE BEAT GOES ON The Whispers 30 ( 35 ) STRANGE LITTLE GIRL Sad Cafe 31 ( 26 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 32 ( 23 ) BETTER LOVE NEXT TIME Dr. Hook 33 ( 38 ) WE GOT THE FUNK Positive Force 34 ( NEW ) UNDERPASS John Foxx 35 ( 67 ) JANE Jefferson Starship 36 ( 31 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 37 ( 33 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 38 ( 55 ) TOO HOT Kool And The Gang 39 ( 28 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 40 ( 73 ) LOVE ON THE LINE Barclay James Harvest 41 ( 29 ) WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR The Skids 42 ( 27 ) MY FEET KEEP DANCING Chic 43 ( 40 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 44 ( 42 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 45 ( 54 ) I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER Prince 46 ( 36 ) PARADISE BIRD Amii Stewart 47 ( NEW ) ARE YOU READY Billy Ocean 48 ( 53 ) GOT TO LOVE SOMEBODY Sister Sledge 49 ( 45 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 50 ( 46 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 51 ( NEW ) CAPTAIN BEAKY Keith Michell 52 ( 44 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 53 ( 32 ) DAY TRIP TO BANGOR Fiddler’s Dram 54 ( 48 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 55 ( 41 ) BLUE PETER Mike Oldfield 56 ( NEW ) RIDERS IN THE SKY The Shadows 57 ( 49 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 58 ( 75 ) BABY I LOVE YOU The Ramones 59 ( 37 ) MOONLIGHT AND MUSAK M 60 ( 72 ) COWARD OF THE COUNTY Kenny Rogers 61 ( 58 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 62 ( 57 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 63 ( NEW ) SAVE ME Queen 64 ( 51 ) QUOTE GOODBYE QUOTE Carolyn Mas 65 ( 50 ) QUE SERA MI VIDA (IF YOU SHOULD GO) The Gibson Brothers 66 ( 56 ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 67 ( 62 ) CARS Gary Numan 68 ( 63 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 69 ( 60 ) ROTATION Herb Alpert 70 ( NEW ) THREE MINUTE HERO The Selecter 71 ( 65 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson 72 ( 68 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 73 ( NEW ) MOTOR BIKE BEAT The Revillos 74 ( 47 ) OFF THE WALL Michael Jackson 75 ( 61 ) RISE Herb Alpert 25th jan - 1st Feb TV chart 1 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 2 Soap 3 Blake’s 7 4 Barney Miller 5 MASH 6 Parkinson 7 Mork And Mindy 8 The Rockford Files 9 Top Of The Pops 10 The Two Ronnies 11 Parkinson (Wed) 12 Logan’s Run 13 Hart To Hart 14 TISWAS 15 Nationwide (Thurs) 16 Hawaii 5-0 17 The New Avengers 18 My Wife Next Door 19 The Legend Of Hell House (film) 20 Hollywood 21 Chopper Squad 22 If It’s Tuesday It Must Be Belguim (film) 23 Film 80 24 A Boy Named Charlie Brown 25 The Muppet Show In College Life, I was studying Pope and School For Scandal in literature, socialising in my TV bedroom with various friends, and one of my parents fave actor’s Jimmy Durante, or Schnozzel, died. I knew him best for literally kicking the bucket in It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and Morecombe & Wise’s ongoing “sat at my piano” plastic cup over the nose gag. In artwork I was doing Silver Queen cowboy screen prints (based on Calico ghost-town saloon), The Two Ronnies had the timeless “got any o’s?” sketch on TV, with an “excellent” Parkinson (my quote of the day!) - he had Alan Alda (yay!), Rene Cutforth (who?) and Jimmy Saville (errr...). Yes, well, that one would be interesting to re-view... On Thursday I was complaining of a dull day. I dream of dull days. I haven’t had a dull day in years, because you only get them when you are content with nothing pressing, nothing urgent, nothing stressful, and that concept died a long time ago in my life. True sad fact. I must have been bored as I marked some kids Maths schoolwork for Paul to save him getting so tired staying up late with loads of marking. Teachers DO work late, it’s true! I quite enjoyed it actually, the power! Friday? Still snow. Chatted in art lectures to mature students, good fun. Dad picked me up and home to Mansfield for the weekend, where brother had got his first home-movie back, with me briefly on it. Apparently, I thought I was “giving my own charming smile”. Oooohh get ‘im! What I really meant was I had a nice smile despite the slightly (and soon to be much) crooked teeth. Yes that American cliche about the Brits is true for me! Bought some tropical fish for my tank, loads of vinyl records, visited Ernie now in “death row” care home (as they called it), and Polish WW2 refugee Renie (Renata Modelefski) popped round to say hello 3 times, now widowed and at a loose end, and lonely. So, yes, Polish people were here long ago and we have a long mutual history. Get over it UKIP-lovers. |
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4th March 2015, 05:27 PM
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12th February 1980
2 weeks for Jon & Vangelis, and The Specials hit number 2 as they hit 1 in the UK singles chart. At 6, The Regents slow climb into the 10 with 7 Teen culminates in a spot of Human League-ish girlie backing singers stylee Top Of The Pops, in a sort of miserable fashion. I could imagine Morrissey covering it, with a few rewritten longer words in there. Queen take a rocket to Save Me, to 21, leapfrogging Jefferson Starship, as the highest new entry is Cliff at 24, with his terrific and dark Carrie, written by BA Robertson and Terry Britten, of Bang Bang and Devil Woman previous songs each respectively. Cliff, with this single, started a long run of quality pop singles for some years without a single duffer amongst them, and his best period really. The Shadows, at 27, on the other hand were coming to the end of their singles career. Doh! New entries: The Tourists consider it so good to be back home again, at 54, not one of their best, while future UK chart-topper Fern Kinney covers Together We Are Beautiful a 1979 chart entry for Steve Allen (in my charts), and does it way better, her unusual voice and cantering rhythms making it much more commercial. Rocky Sharpe and The Replays return with a cover of the 1963 Ran-Dells American hit, Martian Hop. My brother had played the original as the Ted revival scene was pretty big business in Mansfield, and it had been doing the rounds, sort of Northern Soul-wise (old obscure tracks getting discovered by a new generation). Dave Edmunds also whacks out a cover, this time Singing The Blues the 1950’s Guy Mitchell number one, and in at 74, but definitely going higher it’s Turning Japanese by The Vapors - a fabulous New Wave bit of fun, which is less than PC these days in intent, if not in actual lyric. I can’t possibly say what the subject matter is, but suffice to say it involves a favourite pastime of boys and men sat on their own. 1 ( 1 ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 2 ( 4 ) TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG The Special AKA 3 ( 3 ) MY GIRL Madness 4 ( 2 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 5 ( 6 ) GREEN ONIONS Booker T. and The MG’s 6 ( 12 ) 7 TEEN The Regents 7 ( 9 ) SOMEONE’S LOOKING AT YOU The Boomtown Rats 8 ( 5 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 9 ( 10 ) LIVING BY NUMBERS New Musik 10 ( 8 ) BABE Styx 11 ( 16 ) BUZZ BUZZ A DIDDLE IT Matchbox 12 ( 7 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 13 ( 13 ) IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS Joe Jackson 14 ( 20 ) THE PLASTIC AGE The Buggles 15 ( 34 ) UNDERPASS John Foxx 16 ( 11 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 17 ( 23 ) ROCK WITH YOU Michael Jackson 18 ( 14 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 19 ( 22 ) MAMA’S BOY Suzi Quatro 20 ( 29 ) AND THE BEAT GOES ON The Whispers 21 ( 63 ) SAVE ME Queen 22 ( 15 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 23 ( 35 ) JANE Jefferson Starship 24 ( NEW ) CARRIE Cliff Richard 25 ( 19 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 26 ( 18 ) SPACER Sheila and B. Devotion 27 ( 56 ) RIDERS IN THE SKY The Shadows 28 ( 17 ) ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG) Rupert Holmes 29 ( 25 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 30 ( 26 ) JAZZ CARNIVAL Azymuth 31 ( 51 ) CAPTAIN BEAKY Keith Michell 32 ( 27 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 33 ( 38 ) TOO HOT Kool And The Gang 34 ( 30 ) STRANGE LITTLE GIRL Sad Cafe 35 ( 24 ) WITH YOU I’M BORN AGAIN Billy Preston and Syreeta 36 ( 21 ) SARA Fleetwood Mac 37 ( 31 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 38 ( 28 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN The Beat 39 ( 47 ) ARE YOU READY Billy Ocean 40 ( 70 ) THREE MINUTE HERO The Selecter 41 ( 36 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 42 ( 32 ) BETTER LOVE NEXT TIME Dr. Hook 43 ( 37 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 44 ( 60 ) COWARD OF THE COUNTY Kenny Rogers 45 ( 44 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 46 ( 43 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 47 ( 39 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 48 ( 58 ) BABY I LOVE YOU The Ramones 49 ( 49 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 50 ( 50 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 51 ( 33 ) WE GOT THE FUNK Positive Force 52 ( 41 ) WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR The Skids 53 ( 40 ) LOVE ON THE LINE Barclay James Harvest 54 ( NEW ) SO GOOD TO BE BACK HOME AGAIN The Tourists 55 ( 64 ) QUOTE GOODBYE QUOTE Carolyn Mas 56 ( 52 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 57 ( 42 ) MY FEET KEEP DANCING Chic 58 ( 54 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 59 ( NEW ) TOGETHER WE’RE BEAUTIFUL Fern Kinney 60 ( NEW ) MARTIAN HOP Rocky Sharpe and the Replays 61 ( 61 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 62 ( 62 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 63 ( 57 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 64 ( 53 ) DAY TRIP TO BANGOR Fiddler’s Dram 65 ( 45 ) I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER Prince 66 ( 46 ) PARADISE BIRD Amii Stewart 67 ( 67 ) CARS Gary Numan 68 ( 66 ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 69 ( NEW ) SINGING THE BLUES Dave Edmunds 70 ( 68 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 71 ( 73 ) MOTOR BIKE BEAT The Revillos 72 ( 75 ) RISE Herb Alpert 73 ( 72 ) JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer 74 ( NEW ) TURNING JAPANESE The Vapors 75 ( 71 ) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH Michael Jackson Feb 2nd-8th1980 1 MASH 2 Soap 3 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 4 Blake’s 7 5 Top Of The Pops 6 The Two Ronnies 7 The Scalphunters (film) 8 The Goodies 9 Logan’s Run 10 Hart To Hart 11 The Last Of Sheila (film) 12 Film 80 13 Sporting Superstars 14 The New Avengers 15 Wildlife On One 16 The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race 17 What’s On Next 18 My Wife Next Door 19 Parkinson (wed) 20 The Sky At Night On TV Blake’s 7 was getting better, thanks to the scriptwriting, while the Goodies were doing a pastiche of Close Encounters, I was reading William Golding for English Lit, chatting to friends, and having a dream featuring Danno from Hawaii 5-0, though quite what James MacArthur was doing inside a cave in the dream I have no idea nor memory of! In another one I was golf caddie for 2nd year student Brian - at night. Now I may not have played golf at the time, but I suspected finding balls might be a challenge at night... In Art Max, my tutor was encouraging me to try for artistic jobs at the course end - I wish I wish I wish I had. Not that there were many about, of course. Meanwhile I had to give my first ever talk on my work, embarrassingly bright red, stuttering, forgot what I was saying, a disaster! I found I can handle Q&A but not giving speeches, and nothing has changed 35 years on! On TV The Two Ronnies my fave song sketch was on( “sod off sod off sod off so duff your cap to me...poor cow poor cow pour cowslip dew into your cup”): classic. |
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4th March 2015, 08:08 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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19th February 1980
3 weeks at 1, I Hear You Now, 2 weeks at 2 Too Much Too Young and My Girl 4 weeks at 3. That concludes the top 3 results. The Rats get their 3rd biggest hit at 4, as Synth music makes inroads into the top 10, with John Foxx and Buggles joining New Musik, with Cliff and Jacko giving some veteran quality into the bargain. Queen and Jefferson Starship rock into the 20, and highest of many great new entries is Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s fab Take That Look Off Your Face, from Evita girl Marti Webb showcasing Tell Me On A Sunday. It’s a great song. At 22, Blondie return with 3rd track off Eat To The Beat, and it’s the best track, Atomic, quite probably their best ever record (and they had already had 3 chart-toppers). More punky, but ab fab. At 34, The Gibson Brothers reactivate first minor hit Cuba, and it sounds even better, love those latin disco rhythms and the chorus is great. 35, I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down, Elvis is back. Costello, that is, it’s OK but not one of his greats. Dexy’s debut at 49, as Dance Stance gets moving a bit, and the horn section was a breath of fresh air at the time, 60’s retro soul but kinda rock-based, I loved it. At 58, Peter Gabriel finally gets a second terrific solo hit as Games Without Frontiers, with added Kate Bush vocals, follows up Solsbury Hill 3 years on. Chuck in Brass Construction and The Flying Lizards making a minor return, and skip on to The Police giving up an old track, So Lonely, coming after 3 chart-toppers in a row, each better than the last, it was the least of their five hits to date, and of course they really sing Sue Lawley, Nationwide presenter. Still good though. At 73, it’s another great amusing and clever record from BA Robertson, Kool In The Kaftan starting the hippie backlash, but also sort of affectionately 60‘s retro in sound and references. BA is a great lyricist, witness Carrie in the top 10 this very week, one of his. Finally, and rather tragically, AC/DC get a second hit as Touch Too Much enters at 75. The following day Bon Scott, great lead singer, was dead from booze abuse. From AC/DC’s point of view the death-inspired Back In Black album and hiring of the ex-Geordie singer Brian Johnson was the start of a looooong beloved career, and I approved cos I loved a lot of Geordie singles, but for me they just weren’t the same afterwards, Bon was such a great singer, and early AC/DC were sort of punk Led Zep, as opposed to later bombastic Led Zep. Touch Too Much is fantastic. 1 ( 1 ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 2 ( 2 ) TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG The Special AKA 3 ( 3 ) MY GIRL Madness 4 ( 7 ) SOMEONE’S LOOKING AT YOU The Boomtown Rats 5 ( 17 ) ROCK WITH YOU Michael Jackson 6 ( 11 ) BUZZ BUZZ A DIDDLE IT Matchbox 7 ( 14 ) THE PLASTIC AGE The Buggles 8 ( 9 ) LIVING BY NUMBERS New Musik 9 ( 24 ) CARRIE Cliff Richard 10 ( 15 ) UNDERPASS John Foxx 11 ( 4 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 12 ( 6 ) 7 TEEN The Regents 13 ( 8 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 14 ( 21 ) SAVE ME Queen 15 ( 5 ) GREEN ONIONS Booker T. and The MG’s 16 ( 20 ) AND THE BEAT GOES ON The Whispers 17 ( 23 ) JANE Jefferson Starship 18 ( 10 ) BABE Styx 19 ( 13 ) IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS Joe Jackson 20 ( 12 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 21 ( NEW ) TAKE THAT LOOK OFF YOUR FACE Marti Webb 22 ( NEW ) ATOMIC Blondie 23 ( 27 ) RIDERS IN THE SKY The Shadows 24 ( 16 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 25 ( 54 ) SO GOOD TO BE BACK HOME AGAIN The Tourists 26 ( 31 ) CAPTAIN BEAKY Keith Michell 27 ( 18 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 28 ( 40 ) THREE MINUTE HERO The Selecter 29 ( 25 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 30 ( 33 ) TOO HOT Kool And The Gang 31 ( 19 ) MAMA’S BOY Suzi Quatro 32 ( 29 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 33 ( 22 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 34 ( NEW ) CUBA The Gibson Brothers 35 ( NEW ) I CAN’T STAND UP FOR FALLING DOWN Elvis Costello 36 ( 59 ) TOGETHER WE ARE BEAUTIFUL Fern Kinney 37 ( 32 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 38 ( 60 ) MARTIAN HOP Rocky Sharpe and the Replays 39 ( 28 ) ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG) Rupert Holmes 40 ( 48 ) BABY I LOVE YOU The Ramones 41 ( 26 ) SPACER Sheila and B. Devotion 42 ( 44 ) COWARD OF THE COUNTY Kenny Rogers 43 ( 30 ) JAZZ CARNIVAL Azymuth 44 ( 37 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 45 ( 41 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 46 ( 36 ) SARA Fleetwood Mac 47 ( 34 ) STRANGE LITTLE GIRL Sad Cafe 48 ( 39 ) ARE YOU READY Billy Ocean 49 ( NEW ) DANCE STANCE Dexy’s Midnight Runners 50 ( 45 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 51 ( 46 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 52 ( 49 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 53 ( 50 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 54 ( 69 ) SINGING THE BLUES Dave Edmunds 55 ( 56 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 56 ( 43 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 57 ( 35 ) WITH YOU I’M BORN AGAIN Billy Preston and Syreeta 58 ( NEW ) GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS Peter Gabriel 59 ( 38 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN The Beat 60 ( NEW ) TV The Flying Lizards 61 ( 61 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 62 ( 62 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 63 ( 58 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 64 ( 47 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER Rose Royce 65 ( 52 ) WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR The Skids 66 ( NEW ) MUSIC MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE DANCING Brass Construction 67 ( RE ) DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME Captain and Tennille 68 ( NEW ) SO LONELY The Police 69 ( 68 ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 70 ( NEW ) FAN MAIL The Dickies 71 ( 57 ) MY FEET KEEP DANCING Chic 72 ( 70 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 73 ( NEW ) KOOL IN THE KAFTAN B.A. Robertson 74 ( 63 ) WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Dr. Hook 75 ( NEW ) TOUCH TOO MUCH AC/DC Feb 9 - 15 TV charts 1 Soap 2 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 3 MASH: film 4 Blake’s 7 5 MASH 6 Airport: film 7 Logan’s Run 8 Mork And Mindy 9 Barney Miller 10 Film 80 11 The Goodies 12 The Rockford Files 13 Hawaii 5-0 14 Top Of The Pops 15 Hollywood In College days, poetry raised it’s head (sigh), a long list of friends dropping by chez John, outside the inner group too, and Hollywood featured Rudolf Valentino and Gloria Swanson - I was fascinated by then-ancient movie stars from long before I was born, it was like looking back in distant history: well, silent movies looked ancient, even if they were only 50 years or so earlier! A bit like a college student looking back to the 60’s now. I’m suddenly old! The Winter Olympics started this week, but it was overshadowed by the sudden death of David Janssen, an actor hero of mine, star of The Fugitive and Harry O, and the narrator of the epic-scaled Centennial mini-series. Only 49, he was just SO cool with that perfectly-phrased gravelly-voice. I was shocked. Had an American geography exam, sat through a great John Davis lecture afterwards, and Max in Art was encouraging me to frame my latest prints and try and sell some. I had forgotten what a gem of encouragement Max was, given I spent years on the dole anyway I might as well have gone in for art rather than entirely waste my time applying for crap, soul-destroying tedious jobs. If only I knew then what I know now... The weekend I was glum in Mansfield, babysat for my little cousins, rachel letting it out that all of my budgies were dead (donated to Clipstone school) which didn’t make me happier as I was leaned on to get rid of them in the first place. Really, I think it was the realisation that my little glorious bubble-world of College was drawing to a close and I really didn’t like that thought at all. |
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5th March 2015, 07:50 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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26th February 1980
Blondie, boom, Atomic! 4th number one, after Denis, Heart Of Glass and Sunday Girl. One of those instances, like Baker Street, where the single edit is the classic version, the album version meanders in the middle and loses the sheer power and urgency of the track, proving conclusively that sometimes less is more. Debbie Harry was never better than on Atomic, and as the world got very nervous about nuclear war just having Atomic as the title (it wasn’t really the hook, it was the only part of the track that wasn’t a hook!) gave it that extra topical zing. At 3 rockabilly rules, buzz buzz a diddle it, parp! Such fun! At the other end of the chart rockabilly future arrives as Shakin’ Stevens brings a Hot Dog into the chart. I would have preferred the much better song with that title by the Archies, mind you. The Buggles peak at 4 for the second time, John Foxx hits 7, The Whispers 8, and showtune time at 10 with Marti Webb - no, take that look off your face, it’s fab! Peter Gabriel shows no frontiers can hold him back, chanting Jeux Sans Frontiers and beating the competition up to 16 from 58. Little bit of politics nod’s as good as a wink, eh, squire? Call the police! So Lonely? 40 places up to 28 and leapfrogging the Ramones quietly climbing to 30. The late Bon Scott leads AC/DC to 34, Touch Too Much, and The Flying Lizards get a second top 40, TV. Highest new entry, Rainbow are back with another pop metal singalong All Night Long, not quite as good as Since You’ve Been Gone, but Blackmore and Glover equals good enough for Deep Purple. Hands off - she’s mine, exclaim The Beat at 48. OK, if you say so lads, the prettier face of ska and now not doing covers. Donna Summer’s back on the radio with a sprawling ballad/disco track at 60, Liquid Gold dance themselves dizzy (do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-dizzy!) with a bit of cheesy fun at 66, Joan Armatrading gets Rosie at 73 4 years after her classic Love And Affection, and Iron Maiden announce themselves while Running Free. At 75, part of the New Wave of British Heavy Music, sort of, and I certainly wouldn’t have put money on them churning out much the same stuff for the next 3 decades to a loyal fanbase. Hey ho. 1 ( 22 ) ATOMIC Blondie 2 ( 1 ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 3 ( 6 ) BUZZ BUZZ A DIDDLE IT Matchbox 4 ( 7 ) THE PLASTIC AGE The Buggles 5 ( 5 ) ROCK WITH YOU Michael Jackson 6 ( 9 ) CARRIE Cliff Richard 7 ( 10 ) UNDERPASS John Foxx 8 ( 16 ) AND THE BEAT GOES ON The Whispers 9 ( 2 ) TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG The Special AKA 10 ( 21 ) TAKE THAT LOOK OFF YOUR FACE Marti Webb 11 ( 4 ) SOMEONE’S LOOKING AT YOU The Boomtown Rats 12 ( 3 ) MY GIRL Madness 13 ( 8 ) LIVING BY NUMBERS New Musik 14 ( 14 ) SAVE ME Queen 15 ( 25 ) SO GOOD TO BE BACK HOME AGAIN The Tourists 16 ( 58 ) GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS Peter Gabriel 17 ( 17 ) JANE Jefferson Starship 18 ( 13 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 19 ( 11 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 20 ( 23 ) RIDERS IN THE SKY The Shadows 21 ( 28 ) THREE MINUTE HERO The Selecter 22 ( 35 ) I CAN’T STAND UP FOR FALLING DOWN Elvis Costello 23 ( 12 ) 7 TEEN The Regents 24 ( 36 ) TOGETHER WE ARE BEAUTIFUL Fern Kinney 25 ( 15 ) GREEN ONIONS Booker T. and The MG’s 26 ( 20 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 27 ( 18 ) BABE Styx 28 ( 68 ) SO LONELY The Police 29 ( 24 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 30 ( 40 ) BABY I LOVE YOU The Ramones 31 ( 19 ) IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS Joe Jackson 32 ( 34 ) CUBA The Gibson Brothers 33 ( 29 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 34 ( 75 ) TOUCH TOO MUCH AC/DC 35 ( 49 ) DANCE STANCE Dexy’s Midnight Runners 36 ( 32 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 37 ( 60 ) TV The Flying Lizards 38 ( 26 ) CAPTAIN BEAKY Keith Michell 39 ( 67 ) DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME Captain and Tennille 40 ( NEW ) ALL NIGHT LONG Rainbow 41 ( 27 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 42 ( 30 ) TOO HOT Kool And The Gang 43 ( 44 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 44 ( 33 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 45 ( 37 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 46 ( 42 ) COWARD OF THE COUNTY Kenny Rogers 47 ( 38 ) MARTIAN HOP Rocky Sharpe and the Replays 48 ( NEW ) HANDS OFF - SHE’S MINE The Beat 49 ( 54 ) SINGING THE BLUES Dave Edmunds 50 ( 45 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 51 ( 52 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 52 ( 51 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 53 ( 53 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 54 ( 50 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 55 ( 31 ) MAMA’S BOY Suzi Quatro 56 ( 39 ) ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG) Rupert Holmes 57 ( 55 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 58 ( 41 ) SPACER Sheila and B. Devotion 59 ( 46 ) SARA Fleetwood Mac 60 ( NEW ) ON THE RADIO Donna Summer 61 ( 61 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 62 ( 62 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 63 ( NEW ) TONIGHT Zane Griff 64 ( 56 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 65 ( 73 ) KOOL IN THE KAFTAN B.A. Robertson 66 ( NEW ) DANCE YOURSELF DIZZY Liquid Gold 67 ( 63 ) VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR The Buggles 68 ( 72 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 69 ( NEW ) MAYBE TOMORROW The Chords 70 ( 43 ) JAZZ CARNIVAL Azymuth 71 ( NEW ) HOT DOG Shakin’ Stevens 72 ( 69 ) COMPLEX Gary Numan 73 ( NEW ) ROSIE Joan Armatrading 74 ( 57 ) WITH YOU I’M BORN AGAIN Billy Preston and Syreeta 75 ( NEW ) RUNNING FREE Iron Maiden TV feb 16-22 1 Thoroughly Modern Millie: film 2 The Kenny Everett Video Show 3 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 4 Soap 5 MASH 6 Top Of The Pops 7 Blake’s 7 8 The Rockford Files 9 Film 80 10 Wonder Woman 11 Barney Miller 12 World’s Apart 13 Parkinson (sat) 14 Police Story 15 The Blue Knight In lectures, it was Great Expectations, outside lectures it was Blondie in at 3 on the UK charts (hooray!), lotsa socialising and laughs, and good TV (Blake’s 7, Rockford Files etc). I finally got around to developing the Paris art trip negatives, and printing my b&w USA prints in the darkroom. Some snooker, some Winter Olympics, some laughs and then Pete, Julie, Bev & I went to see The Exorcist in the Uni lounge. Some parts were sickening and disturbing, and I didn’t enjoy it anywhere near as much as Alien, but the others were more impressed. The ending was quite shocking, though, and it left a disturbing after-memory... Got my Geog exam results, which were good, and John Davies hinted my grades for American Studies were good for my degree. My expectations were optmistic based on what lecturers were telling me, for a Grade 1. If I’ve learnt anything in life, though, it’s to not bother being optimistic, it just leads to disappointment! The main problem being my tutors all liked me, and outside examiners didn’t know me from Adam. Drama in snooker: Bev wanted to join in on a game Pete, Sue Julie & I were already playing, but she didn’t want to start on the lowest score, which caused conflict and ill feeling, which I don’t deal well with, so I sent all the balls flying forcing a new game. Cue sulks from some parts. Top Of The Pops, I noted, was very good. Saturday evening Paul and Dave drove the gang in two cars to Nottingham for Pauline’s 21st birthday party, much laughter and dancing, I even did the hokey cokey, not something I ever planned to do! I was quite extrovert, for me, had a great time, and we drove back to Lincoln at midnight. On Sunday sci-fi drama with David Janssen in, Marooned, gave me an opportunity to repeat more than once the old gag about a ship carrying blue paint colliding with one carrying red paint, the crew were Marooned....ouch! |
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9th April 2015, 08:39 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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4th March 1980
2 weeks Atomic blasting for Blondie on top, with Peter Gabriel (plus Kate) climbing big-ly to 3 with a bit of political commentary, and Cliff managing another top 5 to add to his list - actually only his 6th in 12 years! The Gibson brothers get another top 10 (Cuba) and The Police make it 5 in a row as So Lonely hits 10. Highest new entry is Sammy Hagar at 18, who has done, it seems, everything for you, and presides over a mini-metal invasion as AC/DC hit 19 and Rainbow return to the 20 a second time with All Night Long. The Beat return to the 40 with a second single, and Bowie’s back with a bizarre cover of Kurt Weil’s 1927 Alabama Song and a stark cover of his own Space Oddity tucked away on the B side. 36 is quite generous for what you might call Bowie’s least-commercial single outside of Tin Machine. At 43, The Vapors re-enter a bit higher this time, and at 46, the very pleasant Take A Little Rhythm, very US-radio-friendly pop from Ali Thompson. Squeeze have another nail for my heart new at 59, uptempo, clever pop as always, even if they tended not to have big hits from here on. At 64, a fondly-recalled Canadian new-wave classic for Martha And The Muffins, Echo Beach just seems to have struck a chord with that generation including me. The Detroit Spinners enter at 66 with a cover of a little-known Four Seasons single (at that time) Working My Way Back To You, and they do it justice, on it’s way to the UK number one 7 years after debuting with the fab Could It Be I’m Falling In Love. At 70 it’s Kenny Loggins, and it’s not Footloose (still 4 years in the future), at 71 the absolutely gorgeous Longer, from Dan Fogelberg, gentle, classy, imacculate balladry. The Lambrettas mod-ify 50’s classic Poison Ivy at 72, The Eagles go out on a minor hit, but one of their best singles, I Can’t Tell You Why, a lovely country-rock ballad at 73, and M grab a 3rd chart entry at 75 - that’s the way the money goes! 1 ( 1 ) ATOMIC Blondie 2 ( 2 ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 3 ( 16 ) GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS Peter Gabriel 4 ( 5 ) ROCK WITH YOU Michael Jackson 5 ( 6 ) CARRIE Cliff Richard 6 ( 10 ) TAKE THAT LOOK OFF YOUR FACE Marti Webb 7 ( 3 ) BUZZ BUZZ A DIDDLE IT Matchbox 8 ( 4 ) THE PLASTIC AGE The Buggles 9 ( 32 ) CUBA The Gibson Brothers 10 ( 28 ) SO LONELY The Police 11 ( 7 ) UNDERPASS John Foxx 12 ( 8 ) AND THE BEAT GOES ON The Whispers 13 ( 24 ) TOGETHER WE ARE BEAUTIFUL Fern Kinney 14 ( 15 ) SO GOOD TO BE BACK HOME AGAIN The Tourists 15 ( 9 ) TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG The Special AKA 16 ( 22 ) I CAN’T STAND UP FOR FALLING DOWN Elvis Costello 17 ( 11 ) SOMEONE’S LOOKING AT YOU The Boomtown Rats 18 ( NEW ) I’VE DONE EVERYTHING FOR YOU Sammy Hagar 19 ( 34 ) TOUCH TOO MUCH AC/DC 20 ( 40 ) ALL NIGHT LONG Rainbow 21 ( 12 ) MY GIRL Madness 22 ( 17 ) JANE Jefferson Starship 23 ( 18 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 24 ( 19 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 25 ( 13 ) LIVING BY NUMBERS New Musik 26 ( 14 ) SAVE ME Queen 27 ( 30 ) BABY I LOVE YOU The Ramones 28 ( 39 ) DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME Captain and Tennille 29 ( 21 ) THREE MINUTE HERO The Selecter 30 ( 48 ) HANDS OFF - SHE’S MINE The Beat 31 ( 26 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 32 ( 29 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 33 ( 33 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 34 ( 66 ) DANCE YOURSELF DIZZY Liquid Gold 35 ( 20 ) RIDERS IN THE SKY The Shadows 36 ( NEW ) ALABAMA SONG/ SPACE ODDITY David Bowie 37 ( 27 ) BABE Styx 38 ( 25 ) GREEN ONIONS Booker T. and The MG’s 39 ( 23 ) 7 TEEN The Regents 40 ( 36 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 41 ( 35 ) DANCE STANCE Dexy’s Midnight Runners 42 ( 43 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 43 ( RE ) TURNING JAPANESE The Vapors 44 ( 31 ) IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS Joe Jackson 45 ( 65 ) KOOL IN THE KAFTAN B.A. Robertson 46 ( NEW ) TAKE A LITTLE RHYTHM Ali Thompson 47 ( 41 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 48 ( 45 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 49 ( 60 ) ON THE RADIO Donna Summer 50 ( 53 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 51 ( 51 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 52 ( 52 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 53 ( 54 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 54 ( 50 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 55 ( NEW ) AT THE EDGE Stiff Little Fingers 56 ( 38 ) CAPTAIN BEAKY Keith Michell 57 ( 44 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 58 ( 57 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 59 ( NEW ) ANOTHER NAIL FOR MY HEART Squeeze 60 ( 75 ) RUNNING FREE Iron Maiden 61 ( 61 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 62 ( 62 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 63 ( 49 ) SINGING THE BLUES Dave Edmunds 64 ( NEW ) ECHO BEACH Martha And The Muffins 65 ( 42 ) TOO HOT Kool And The Gang 66 ( NEW ) WORKING MY WAY BACK TO YOU The Detroit Spinners 67 ( 64 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 68 ( 68 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 69 ( 37 ) TV The Flying Lizards 70 ( NEW ) THIS IS IT Kenny Loggins 71 ( NEW ) LONGER Dan Fogelberg 72 ( NEW ) POISON IVY The Lambrettas 73 ( NEW ) I CAN’T TELL YOU WHY The Eagles 74 ( 46 ) COWARD OF THE COUNTY Kenny Rogers 75 ( NEW ) THAT’S THE WAY THE MONEY GOES M TV Feb 22-29 1 The Kenny Everett Video Show 2 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 3 British Rock and Pop Awards 4 Top Of The Pops 5 Blake’s 7 6 MASH 7 The Rockford Files 8 Film 80 9 Marooned 10 The Two Ronnies College days, and the usual crowd for chats, quizzes, snooker and lectures. Fab! Had to read out a poem, called Pastoral, which went down rather well in English Lit, surprisingly. I didn’t even get embarrassed once. The new UK charts, I noted, were “excellent”: I stand by that opinion! Kenny Everett & Rockford Files were good on TV. The BRITS (aka British Rock & Pop Awards) were fab: The Police, Boomtown rats, Cliff, Macca, Specials, Gary Numan, Kate Bush. On Thursday I slaughtered all-comers at lunchtime snooker and crowed about it, I must have been giddy at it all as that’s just not me! In art I was working on supasized photos cut up and glued together on raised blocks for a 3D effect. Seemed like a good idea at the time.... The weekend was a hired car, and a group off for another 21st birthday bash (Jane Deacey), with a band playing, and with a group of college girl friends of hers, which would have been in Wolverhampton. Apparently. I actually have no memory of it, which is very sad to contemplate, I seem to have lost a day, even with photos I took - I must have them somewhere, but that might take a bit of researching! We stopped off for Nottingham shopping on the way back to Lincoln, which was eventful: I finally got hold of a copy of Zager & Evans’ In The Year 2525 after 11 years of trying, and also found a copy of a long-lost Legion of Super heroes comic I’d stupidly sold in 1972 - Adventure Comics 375. Hooray! The ten-pin bowling alley was closed, though, so doh! Back in my dorm room, my tape recorder and my record player turntable were on the joint failure, double disaster for me - at least I now had a cassette recorder player as back-up, I do believe in spares as a motto in life.... |
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14th April 2015, 08:55 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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11th March 1980
3 weeks for Blondie bombing the competition, and Rock With You hits 2 for Michael Jackson. They both have returned to the singles charts in the years since, so I feel justified, yay! I look at the top 10 and I see a complete range of genres and styles that would be inconceivable in the current UK charts - New Wave, disco soul, showtune, carribbean, progrock, metal, reggaerock, synthballad, band pop, MOR pop. Awesome. The Tourists get a second top 10 hit, and AC/DC their first, the fabulous Touch Too Much. Captain & Tennille return to the 20 for the first time in 4 years, their third trip to date, while the Beat get a second visit, and Liquid Gold a first. The Vapours finally start making moves, to 21, and Echo Beach crashes upwards in waves to 25, just ahead of Scotland’s Ali Thomson, Squeeze, B.A. Robertson and The Detroit Spinners. Few new entries this week, just Secret Affair’s best single at 48, the storming My World (play loud!), Rupert Holmes classy MOR Him at 58 (his 3rd hit) and another ska band debuting at 67 - the ever-fun and loveable Bad Manners, fronted by the unforgettable Buster Bloodvessel, and the tongue-twistingly funtastic Ne-Ne-Na-Na-Na-Na-Nu-Nu. The final new entry is a return for the Brothers Johnson, 3 or 4 years on from the fantastic Strawberry Letter 23, the almost-as-good Stomp. Fab. 1 ( 1 ) ATOMIC Blondie 2 ( 4 ) ROCK WITH YOU Michael Jackson 3 ( 6 ) TAKE THAT LOOK OFF YOUR FACE Marti Webb 4 ( 9 ) CUBA The Gibson Brothers 5 ( 3 ) GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS Peter Gabriel 6 ( 10 ) SO LONELY The Police 7 ( 2 ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 8 ( 13 ) TOGETHER WE ARE BEAUTIFUL Fern Kinney 9 ( 14 ) SO GOOD TO BE BACK HOME AGAIN The Tourists 10 ( 19 ) TOUCH TOO MUCH AC/DC 11 ( 20 ) ALL NIGHT LONG Rainbow 12 ( 28 ) DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME Captain and Tennille 13 ( 5 ) CARRIE Cliff Richard 14 ( 30 ) HANDS OFF - SHE’S MINE The Beat 15 ( 18 ) I’VE DONE EVERYTHING FOR YOU Sammy Hagar 16 ( 16 ) I CAN’T STAND UP FOR FALLING DOWN Elvis Costello 17 ( 7 ) BUZZ BUZZ A DIDDLE IT Matchbox 18 ( 34 ) DANCE YOURSELF DIZZY Liquid Gold 19 ( 8 ) THE PLASTIC AGE The Buggles 20 ( 11 ) UNDERPASS John Foxx 21 ( 43 ) TURNING JAPANESE The Vapors 22 ( 15 ) TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG The Special AKA 23 ( 17 ) SOMEONE’S LOOKING AT YOU The Boomtown Rats 24 ( 12 ) AND THE BEAT GOES ON The Whispers 25 ( 64 ) ECHO BEACH Martha And The Muffins 26 ( 46 ) TAKE A LITTLE RHYTHM Ali Thomson 27 ( 23 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 28 ( 21 ) MY GIRL Madness 29 ( 59 ) ANOTHER NAIL FOR MY HEART Squeeze 30 ( 24 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 31 ( 66 ) WORKING MY WAY BACK TO YOU The Detroit Spinners 32 ( 22 ) JANE Jefferson Starship 33 ( 36 ) ALABAMA SONG/ SPACE ODDITY David Bowie 34 ( 32 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 35 ( 31 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 36 ( 33 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 37 ( 25 ) LIVING BY NUMBERS New Musik 38 ( 27 ) BABY I LOVE YOU The Ramones 39 ( 29 ) THREE MINUTE HERO The Selecter 40 ( 45 ) KOOL IN THE KAFTAN B.A. Robertson 41 ( 55 ) AT THE EDGE Stiff Little Fingers 42 ( 40 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 43 ( 42 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 44 ( 35 ) RIDERS IN THE SKY The Shadows 45 ( 37 ) BABE Styx 46 ( 26 ) SAVE ME Queen 47 ( 38 ) GREEN ONIONS Booker T. and The MG’s 48 ( NEW ) MY WORLD Secret Affair 49 ( 50 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 50 ( 51 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 51 ( 39 ) 7 TEEN The Regents 52 ( 52 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 53 ( 53 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 54 ( 54 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 55 ( 75 ) THAT’S THE WAY THE MONEY GOES M 56 ( 60 ) RUNNING FREE Iron Maiden 57 ( 72 ) POISON IVY The Lambrettas 58 ( NEW ) HIM Rupert Holmes 59 ( 61 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 60 ( 58 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 61 ( 62 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 62 ( 47 ) PLEASE DON’T GO KC and The Sunshine Band 63 ( 48 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU The Tourists 64 ( 71 ) LONGER Dan Fogelberg 65 ( 49 ) ON THE RADIO Donna Summer 66 ( 44 ) IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS Joe Jackson 67 ( NEW ) NE-NE-NA-NA-NA-NA-NU-NU Bad Manners 68 ( 70 ) THIS IS IT Kenny Loggins 69 ( 41 ) DANCE STANCE Dexy’s Midnight Runners 70 ( 73 ) I CAN’T TELL YOU WHY The Eagles 71 ( 57 ) I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar 72 ( 68 ) VOULEZ VOUS/ ANGEL EYES Abba 73 ( NEW ) STOMP The Brothers Johnson 74 ( 67 ) ONE STEP BEYOND Madness 75 ( 56 ) CAPTAIN BEAKY Keith Michell 1st-7th march 1980 TV 1 The Kenny Everett Video Show 2 Soap 3 Blake’s 7 4 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 5 Butterflies 6 Holocaust (part 4) 7 Top Of The Pops 8 The Phil Silvers Show 9 Chopper Squad 10 Film 80 11 Tomorrow’s World 12 Barney Miller 13 New Maverick 14 Hanging By A Thread 15 Dallas On TV Kenny Everett was still ruling the comedy world (with a fab assist from Cliff Richard being game for a laugh), followed by ground-breaking madcap sitcom Soap, Blake’s 7 was topping British drama for me, Dallas was building and building towards it’s classic year, and a remake of classic 50’s western Maverick, which made the brilliant James Garner a star, debuts with him returning along with the next generation of Maverick’s. At college, lectures, snooker, various gang member combo chats as everyone still came, went, stayed, returned from teaching practice, while my world remained static and they revolved around me (from my point of view!) Pete, Ian, Sue, Julie, Paul, Jane, Bev, Alan and lesser peripheral friends. Jane, one night late, stayed to chat, and she’s such a good listener I admitted all my freaky obsessive pop-chart-compiling and other hobbies. Which I now post here! This was also the week I hypochondriac’d myself to the college matron in the middle of the night with chronic stomache pains, panicking it was appendicitis, when it was most likely stress from running to get a deposit back to the garage we hired the weekend car from, and other stuff, like being faced with talking about looking for gainful employment before long. Wuss! The doctor called it a mild attack of gastro-enteritis. Didn’t feel mild! |
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16th April 2015, 08:38 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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18th March 1980 Lots of connections in the new chart, starting off with Daydream Believer entering twice, in at 1 as part of the Monkees EP of 4 big 60’s hits, I’m A Believer (already topped my chart in 1974 reissued), Last Train To Clarksville and A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You, and also in at 74 as covered by Anne Murray. Both acts are long-time faves, Anne for 10 years since I went mad on Snowbird, and The Monkees since 1967, when their groundbreaking pop group madcap sitcom was a huge fave of mine. I loved all of their records, almost all of them would have hit the top spot in charts I hypothetically might have compiled while passing happy days at RAF Valley on the glorious Isle Of Anglesey, through to RAF Swinderby near Lincoln. By 1974 when I bought their hits albums, there were many many album tracks which would have done the same. So it was only right this should have jumped in at 1, being a UK hit all over again. As John Peel commented on Roundtable at the time, in the late 60’s like most of the hippie rock fraternity and British media, The Monkees were regarded as manufactured and dismissed. By 1980, he admitted they’d dated way better than his beloved hippie records, and to boot had been influential on the next gen of rock stars. They also played their own instruments and wrote their own songs, admittedly after the initial batch of success. All four tracks are 10/10 brilliant, two of them Neil Diamond songs. Captain And Tennille get a 3rd Top 10, Brothers Johnson stomp their way into it, and The Vapors even turn Japanese to break into the Top 10. Squeeze go up to 19, which lets me mention a future temporary member of Squeeze, Paul Carrack (Tempted), who was to later become a part of Mike + The Mechanics along with Sad Cafe lead singer Paul Young. Sad cafe get a 3rd hit in at 63, my oh my! Just to round it off, Mike himself is in at 70 with a solo entry just one spot of ahead of his band Genesis and their fabulous Turn It On Again. Former member of Genesis Peter gabriel is at 13, and Phil Collins was only months away from a solo classic. That concludes the Genesis Family Tree. Some good disco at 23, Narada Michael Walden’s Tonight I’m Alright, Earth Wind & Fire at 50 are written in the stone, Suzi Quatro grabs another quick chart entry and Rush debut with classic metal anthem Spirit Of Radio at 56. Babs Dickson is back after a gap, for 4 years of hits with the sweet January February at 60, there’s Bodysnatchers girlgroup ska going Rocksteady at 61, and Jimmy Buffet debuts his Carribbean rock stylee at 62, as the Volcano blows, though it would be Maragaritaville that would become the karaoke classic, and he’s still going strong in Florida, having had a recent US hit with It’s 5 O’clock Somewhere. Pat Benatar also debuts with Heartbreaker, UB40 debut with the first of a very very long run of hits (see this weeks chart as I write March 2015) the double A King and the fantastic Food For Thought. Finally The Dooleys are back with a decent pop track, and Siouxsie has a happy house, and proves it by sounding distinctly unhappy at 75, but always good. 1 ( NEW ) MONKEES EP (LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE/ I’M A BELIEVER/ A LITTLE BIT ME A LITTLE BIT YOU/ DAYDREAM BELIEVER) The Monkees 2 ( 1 ) ATOMIC Blondie 3 ( 4 ) CUBA The Gibson Brothers 4 ( 6 ) SO LONELY The Police 5 ( 12 ) DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME Captain and Tennille 6 ( 11 ) ALL NIGHT LONG Rainbow 7 ( 3 ) TAKE THAT LOOK OFF YOUR FACE Marti Webb 8 ( 8 ) TOGETHER WE ARE BEAUTIFUL Fern Kinney 9 ( 73 ) STOMP The Brothers Johnson 10 ( 21 ) TURNING JAPANESE The Vapors 11 ( 2 ) ROCK WITH YOU Michael Jackson 12 ( 18 ) DANCE YOURSELF DIZZY Liquid Gold 13 ( 5 ) GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS Peter Gabriel 14 ( 14 ) HANDS OFF - SHE’S MINE The Beat 15 ( 7 ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 16 ( 31 ) WORKING MY WAY BACK TO YOU The Detroit Spinners 17 ( 13 ) CARRIE Cliff Richard 18 ( 25 ) ECHO BEACH Martha And The Muffins 19 ( 29 ) ANOTHER NAIL FOR MY HEART Squeeze 20 ( 9 ) SO GOOD TO BE BACK HOME AGAIN The Tourists 21 ( 16 ) I CAN’T STAND UP FOR FALLING DOWN Elvis Costello 22 ( 10 ) TOUCH TOO MUCH AC/DC 23 ( NEW ) TONIGHT I’M ALRIGHT Narada Michael Walden 24 ( 33 ) ALABAMA SONG/ SPACE ODDITY David Bowie 25 ( 17 ) BUZZ BUZZ A DIDDLE IT Matchbox 26 ( 48 ) MY WORLD Secret Affair 27 ( 22 ) TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG The Special AKA 28 ( 64 ) LONGER Dan Fogelberg 29 ( 15 ) I’VE DONE EVERYTHING FOR YOU Sammy Hagar 30 ( 58 ) HIM Rupert Holmes 31 ( 19 ) THE PLASTIC AGE The Buggles 32 ( 20 ) UNDERPASS John Foxx 33 ( 23 ) SOMEONE’S LOOKING AT YOU The Boomtown Rats 34 ( 26 ) TAKE A LITTLE RHYTHM Ali Thomson 35 ( 27 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 36 ( 24 ) AND THE BEAT GOES ON The Whispers 37 ( 57 ) POISON IVY The Lambrettas 38 ( NEW ) HOLDIN’ ON Tony Rallo 39 ( 41 ) AT THE EDGE Stiff Little Fingers 40 ( 36 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 41 ( 35 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 42 ( 28 ) MY GIRL Madness 43 ( 30 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 44 ( 34 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 45 ( 32 ) JANE Jefferson Starship 46 ( NEW ) I’VE NEVER BEEN IN LOVE Suzi Quatro 47 ( 67 ) NE-NE-NA-NA-NA-NA-NU-NU Bad Manners 48 ( 42 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 49 ( 43 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 50 ( NEW ) IN THE STONE Earth Wind And Fire 51 ( 55 ) THAT’S THE WAY THE MONEY GOES M 52 ( 39 ) THREE MINUTE HERO The Selecter 53 ( 49 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 54 ( 50 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 55 ( 37 ) LIVING BY NUMBERS New Musik 56 ( NEW ) SPIRIT OF RADIO Rush 57 ( 52 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 58 ( 53 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 59 ( 54 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 60 ( NEW ) JANUARY FEBRUARY Barbara Dickson 61 ( NEW ) LET’S DO ROCK STEADY The Bodysnatchers 62 ( NEW ) VOLCANO Jimmy Buffet 63 ( NEW ) MY OH MY Sad Cafe 64 ( 60 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 65 ( 45 ) BABE Styx 66 ( NEW ) HEARTBREAKER Pat Benatar 67 ( 59 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 68 ( 61 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 69 ( NEW ) WARHEAD The UK Subs 70 ( NEW ) WORKING IN LINE Mike Rutherford 71 ( NEW ) TURN IT ON AGAIN Genesis 72 ( NEW ) LOVE PATROL The Dooleys 73 ( NEW ) FOOD FOR THOUGHT/ KING UB40 74 ( NEW ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER Anne Murray 75 ( NEW ) HAPPY HOUSE Siouxsie And The Banshees TV 8th Mar - 14th Mar 1 The Kenny Everett Video Show 2 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 3 MASH 4 Blake’s 7 5 Butterflies 6 Top Of The Pops 7 Film 80 8 Barney Miller 9 The Phil Silvers Show 10 Happy Days 11 Life On Earth 12 Fuzz: film 13 Parkinson: Robert Redford 14 Hollywood 15 Harry O: Such Dust As Dreams Are Made Of On TV a brilliant Kenny Everett episode, Panorama on the very topical nuclear issues, a growing concern for all sane people, had a discussion with Pete & Ian over whether films can be called good or bad, or whether it’s just a personal response. I say a crap film is crap by any assessment! Jane round to watch Life On Earth, David Attenborough’s ground-breaking series on life, the planet and everything. Fantastic. Had to fight to watch MASH during an evening of Ice Skating finals that everyone had come round to watch, on my TV - funny! Bumped into old schoolmate Pete Lambert in town, chat to catch up on stuff and others from school - one was in a band, some had failed their degree, some were working. I’d missed their company actually, I decided. |
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17th April 2015, 06:11 PM
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PTTP
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John, will I see Sue Wilkinson's classic hit in your chart ?
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17th April 2015, 07:13 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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17th April 2015, 07:18 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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25th March 1980 2 weeks on top for the Monkees, track featured this time being Neil Diamond’s under-rated A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You, and Davy’s terrific vocals atop a classy pop production. Fab. Highest new entry, though, is The Jam, Going Underground at 10 and already outdoing all previous Jam singles bar Down In The Tube Station At Midnight, cos it was fab and they were on fire. The Detroit Spinners get their first top 10 since the reissue of Could It Be I’m Fallin’ In Love in 1977, also their first top 10 in 1973. Rush, literally, rush to 7, from 56 as Spirit Of Radio strikes a chord with me, a metal chord. From one Canadian act to another: Martha & The Muffins also pop in at 8, Echo Beach still fab. The Bodysnatchers rocket-steady up pronto to 14, ah-hah, ah-hah, as the gorgeous Longer by Dan Fogelberg falls in just behind, and Barbara Dickson also belatedly for March, sings about January february at 25. BA Robertson is back in his Kaftan at 30, after inexplicably dis-robing for a week, and UB40’s sultry stylish reggae is fresh at 32. Bad Manners ne ne na na new new in the top 40 at 35, Genesis Turn it On Again at 39, and Suzi Quatro is at 37, I’ve Never Been In Love she says, I don’t believe you, says I as The Dooleys patrol a bit around about 40. Leaving few new entries, but Gerry Rafferty scrapes in at 75, bringing it home again and his 3rd in the chart, and The Motors return 2 years after Airport topping, Love And Loneliness not quite as classic, but decent enough. 1 ( 1 ) MONKEES EP (LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE/ I’M A BELIEVER/ A LITTLE BIT ME A LITTLE BIT YOU/ DAYDREAM BELIEVER) The Monkees 2 ( 2 ) ATOMIC Blondie 3 ( 10 ) TURNING JAPANESE The Vapors 4 ( 5 ) DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME Captain and Tennille 5 ( 16 ) WORKING MY WAY BACK TO YOU The Detroit Spinners 6 ( 9 ) STOMP The Brothers Johnson 7 ( 56 ) SPIRIT OF RADIO Rush 8 ( 18 ) ECHO BEACH Martha And The Muffins 9 ( 12 ) DANCE YOURSELF DIZZY Liquid Gold 10 ( NEW ) GOING UNDERGROUND The Jam 11 ( 3 ) CUBA The Gibson Brothers 12 ( 6 ) ALL NIGHT LONG Rainbow 13 ( 4 ) SO LONELY The Police 14 ( 61 ) LET’S DO ROCK STEADY The Bodysnatchers 15 ( 28 ) LONGER Dan Fogelberg 16 ( 19 ) ANOTHER NAIL FOR MY HEART Squeeze 17 ( 7 ) TAKE THAT LOOK OFF YOUR FACE Marti Webb 18 ( 14 ) HANDS OFF - SHE’S MINE The Beat 19 ( 8 ) TOGETHER WE ARE BEAUTIFUL Fern Kinney 20 ( 13 ) GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS Peter Gabriel 21 ( 23 ) TONIGHT I’M ALRIGHT Narada Michael Walden 22 ( 11 ) ROCK WITH YOU Michael Jackson 23 ( 26 ) MY WORLD Secret Affair 24 ( 15 ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 25 ( 60 ) JANUARY FEBRUARY Barbara Dickson 26 ( 17 ) CARRIE Cliff Richard 27 ( 30 ) HIM Rupert Holmes 28 ( 50 ) IN THE STONE Earth Wind And Fire 29 ( 37 ) POISON IVY The Lambrettas 30 ( RE ) KOOL IN THE KAFTAN B.A. Robertson 31 ( 24 ) ALABAMA SONG/ SPACE ODDITY David Bowie 32 ( 73 ) FOOD FOR THOUGHT/ KING UB40 33 ( 38 ) HOLDIN’ ON Tony Rallo 34 ( 39 ) AT THE EDGE Stiff Little Fingers 35 ( 47 ) NE-NE-NA-NA-NA-NA-NU-NU Bad Manners 36 ( 27 ) TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG The Special AKA 37 ( 46 ) I’VE NEVER BEEN IN LOVE Suzi Quatro 38 ( 20 ) SO GOOD TO BE BACK HOME AGAIN The Tourists 39 ( 71 ) TURN IT ON AGAIN Genesis 40 ( 72 ) LOVE PATROL The Dooleys 41 ( 21 ) I CAN’T STAND UP FOR FALLING DOWN Elvis Costello 42 ( 35 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 43 ( 40 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 44 ( 41 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 45 ( 25 ) BUZZ BUZZ A DIDDLE IT Matchbox 46 ( 63 ) MY OH MY Sad Cafe 47 ( 44 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 48 ( 36 ) AND THE BEAT GOES ON The Whispers 49 ( 33 ) SOMEONE’S LOOKING AT YOU The Boomtown Rats 50 ( 69 ) WARHEAD The UK Subs 51 ( 22 ) TOUCH TOO MUCH AC/DC 52 ( 49 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 53 ( 48 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 54 ( 43 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 55 ( 32 ) UNDERPASS John Foxx 56 ( 31 ) THE PLASTIC AGE The Buggles 57 ( 66 ) HEARTBREAKER Pat Benatar 58 ( 53 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 59 ( 54 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 60 ( 42 ) MY GIRL Madness 61 ( 62 ) VOLCANO Jimmy Buffet 62 ( 59 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 63 ( 58 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 64 ( 57 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 65 ( 29 ) I’VE DONE EVERYTHING FOR YOU Sammy Hagar 66 ( 75 ) HAPPY HOUSE Siouxsie And The Banshees 67 ( 70 ) WORKING IN LINE Mike Rutherford 68 ( NEW ) DON’T PUSH IT DON’T FORCE IT Leon Haywood 69 ( 68 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 70 ( 67 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 71 ( NEW ) LOVE AND LONELINESS The Motors 72 ( 64 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 73 ( 34 ) TAKE A LITTLE RHYTHM Ali Thomson 74 ( 74 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER Anne Murray 75 ( NEW ) BRING IT ALL HOME Gerry Rafferty TV 15th - 22nd Mar 1 Soap 2 The Kenny Everett Video Show 3 Monte Carlo Or Bust: film 4 Barney Miller 5 Not The Least Of The 9 o’clock News 6 TISWAS 7 Top Of The Pops 8 The Phil Silvers Show 9 Blake’s 7 10 Friday Night Saturday Morning 11 Wonder Woman 12 Mork And Mindy 13 Film 80 14 Life On Earth 15 Butterflies 16 Chopper Squad 17 Private Eye 18 British Academy Awards 19 Tomorrow’s World 20 The World About Us In the real world, it snowed all day on Monday, as I received careers advice on how to get into radio - to be honest it’s still the only job I want to do, and still waiting (but not presenting)! In college, we had a gang snow-ball fight, soon-to-be teachers and me, and it was fun. Oh yes it was! In art I was cutting up my mega Eiffel Tower print, in the UK chart world The Jam entered at 1, first time anyone had done that for 7 years, so that was news. Denise, one of the mature art students gave a talk on her friend Carla Lane - of The Liver Birds and Butterflies sitcom writer fame. Wish I’d tried to get sitcom writing advice through her now, another ambition never realised! At the Uni movie night it was One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, a powerful drama, and I got to get to know better Paul’s new first-year friend Jane, not a shy girl, but likeable. She died within a very few years, which was so tragic and unexpected. I have a photo of her smiling sat on my bed from around this time, my lasting image of her. For some sadistic reason the college decided to hold a 6.45 am fire drill, the gits, so it was an early breakfast on friday. Chatted a lot with Ian who was missing his school days, athletics featuring big for him. He was kinda left out a lot as he was a day student, even though he only lived round the corner that was enough to miss out on a lot of socialising and I think he regretted that for the whole 3 years. Then it was home for easter break, mum and dad fetching me in the car, me reverting back into stroppy morose ungrateful teenager for a weekend in Mansfield with mum, dad, Mark, Sue and my tropical fish and budgies, and babysitting for lil’ cousins Rachel & Lisa saturday night. On Sunday the topic of Christening came up (ie for me), not sure why but maybe related to brothers forthcoming wedding, but in any case I put a firm, and short “No!” boot in the idea of that. Never had been, and it would have been hypocritical to do it now when I had no religious convictions one way or another. Happy to respect others convictions, but my views of the universe are more large-scale and generalised. |
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18th May 2015, 07:59 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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1st April 1980 3 weeks for The Monkees at 1 as The Jam get their biggest hit at 2 and Martha has some beach muffins at 3, both climbing, but not in the climbing league of Genesis who rocket up to 4, Turn It On Again being their second top 5 hit, after Follow You Follow Me peaked at 3. One of those 3 climbers will knock off the Monkees next week! Meanwhile the lovely Longer lingers longingly at 8 for Dan Fogelberg, it deserved higher, and UB40 make the top 20 for the first time with their double A fabbie King and Food For Thought. If anyone had said this new band would have a worldwide career for 2 decades, and beyond, it would have sounded a good bet to take on against it being accurate, they just didn’t seem to have mass appeal in the early days with their laid-back social and political reggae. Siouxsie And The Banshees have a happy house inside the top 40 for the fourth time, and Stevie Wonder is the highest new entry in a quiet week, at 36 with Outside My Window - presumably not Siouxsie’s Happy House though. Leon Haywood doesn’t push his way into the 40, and I didn’t force that sentence. Honest. Back at 42, 11-year-oldie The Liquidator, the instrumental reggae track is back thanks to the ska revival which referred back to early reggae classics like this one. The Buggles get a 3rd entry with Clean Clean, another forgotten minor goodie at 47, while at 55 Madness are still on a roll with 4th hit Night Boat To Cairo - it’s part of an EP technically, one I bought, but this was the track I loved so I exclude the others and focus on the nutty boys saxtastic ska romp, just brilliant. John Foxx is back again, but No-One’s Driving, another EP, and ditto the main track was the best track. That leaves Dr. Hook still heading downwards in quality and upward in sales, and Bette Bright new at 68 with Hello I Am Your Heart and another on the ska pop train. 1 ( 1 ) MONKEES EP (LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE/ I’M A BELIEVER/ A LITTLE BIT ME A LITTLE BIT YOU/ DAYDREAM BELIEVER) The Monkees 2 ( 10 ) GOING UNDERGROUND The Jam 3 ( 8 ) ECHO BEACH Martha And The Muffins 4 ( 39 ) TURN IT ON AGAIN Genesis 5 ( 2 ) ATOMIC Blondie 6 ( 5 ) WORKING MY WAY BACK TO YOU The Detroit Spinners 7 ( 7 ) SPIRIT OF RADIO Rush 8 ( 15 ) LONGER Dan Fogelberg 9 ( 3 ) TURNING JAPANESE The Vapors 10 ( 6 ) STOMP The Brothers Johnson 11 ( 11 ) CUBA The Gibson Brothers 12 ( 14 ) LET’S DO ROCK STEADY The Bodysnatchers 13 ( 32 ) FOOD FOR THOUGHT/ KING UB40 14 ( 12 ) ALL NIGHT LONG Rainbow 15 ( 4 ) DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME Captain and Tennille 16 ( 16 ) ANOTHER NAIL FOR MY HEART Squeeze 17 ( 23 ) MY WORLD Secret Affair 18 ( 25 ) JANUARY FEBRUARY Barbara Dickson 19 ( 29 ) POISON IVY The Lambrettas 20 ( 13 ) SO LONELY The Police 21 ( 30 ) KOOL IN THE KAFTAN B.A. Robertson 22 ( 9 ) DANCE YOURSELF DIZZY Liquid Gold 23 ( 17 ) TAKE THAT LOOK OFF YOUR FACE Marti Webb 24 ( 35 ) NE-NE-NA-NA-NA-NA-NU-NU Bad Manners 25 ( 18 ) HANDS OFF - SHE’S MINE The Beat 26 ( 27 ) HIM Rupert Holmes 27 ( 19 ) TOGETHER WE ARE BEAUTIFUL Fern Kinney 28 ( 66 ) HAPPY HOUSE Siouxsie And The Banshees 29 ( 40 ) LOVE PATROL The Dooleys 30 ( 24 ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 31 ( 20 ) GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS Peter Gabriel 32 ( 21 ) TONIGHT I’M ALRIGHT Narada Michael Walden 33 ( 22 ) ROCK WITH YOU Michael Jackson 34 ( 46 ) MY OH MY Sad Cafe 35 ( 26 ) CARRIE Cliff Richard 36 ( NEW ) OUTSIDE MY WINDOW Stevie Wonder 37 ( 37 ) I’VE NEVER BEEN IN LOVE Suzi Quatro 38 ( 36 ) TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG The Special AKA 39 ( 68 ) DON’T PUSH IT DON’T FORCE IT Leon Haywood 40 ( 28 ) IN THE STONE Earth Wind And Fire 41 ( 31 ) ALABAMA SONG/ SPACE ODDITY David Bowie 42 ( NEW ) THE LIQUIDATOR Harry J and The All Stars 43 ( 43 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 44 ( 42 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 45 ( 44 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 46 ( 47 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 47 ( NEW ) CLEAN CLEAN The Buggles 48 ( 38 ) SO GOOD TO BE BACK HOME AGAIN The Tourists 49 ( 41 ) I CAN’T STAND UP FOR FALLING DOWN Elvis Costello 50 ( 71 ) LOVE AND LONELINESS The Motors 51 ( 52 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 52 ( 53 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 53 ( 57 ) HEARTBREAKER Pat Benatar 54 ( 48 ) AND THE BEAT GOES ON The Whispers 55 ( NEW ) NIGHT BOAT TO CAIRO Madness 56 ( NEW ) SEXY EYES Dr. Hook 57 ( 45 ) BUZZ BUZZ A DIDDLE IT Matchbox 58 ( 58 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 59 ( 59 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 60 ( 54 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 61 ( 34 ) AT THE EDGE Stiff Little Fingers 62 ( 49 ) SOMEONE’S LOOKING AT YOU The Boomtown Rats 63 ( 63 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 64 ( 62 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 65 ( 64 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 66 ( 67 ) WORKING IN LINE Mike Rutherford 67 ( 60 ) MY GIRL Madness 68 ( NEW ) HELLO I AM YOUR HEART Bette Bright 69 ( 69 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 70 ( 70 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 71 ( 55 ) UNDERPASS John Foxx 72 ( 75 ) BRING IT ALL HOME Gerry Rafferty 73 ( 56 ) THE PLASTIC AGE The Buggles 74 ( 72 ) JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (1972)/JOHN I’M ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1975) David Bowie 75 ( NEW ) NO-ONE DRIVING John Foxx TV 22-28th Mar 1 Parkinson 2 The Outer Limits 3 Blake’s 7 4 Soap 5 The Kenny Everett Video Show 6 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 7 Top Of The Pops 8 Barney Miller 9 Tiswas 10 The Phil Silvers Show 11 Life On Earth 12 The Muppet Show 13 The British Eurovision Song Contest 14 Film 80 15 Happy Days 16 Mork And Mindy 17 Dallas 18 Private Eye 19 Hawaii 5-0 20 Wonder Woman March 25th was a big day for me - at home in Mansfield for holidays, and it was dad’s last day in the RAF, and the end of the main part of my life, really - 22 years of constant moving, always new places, or returning to old places, never anywhere longer than 2 years in one go. Life was never quite the same again for me, and certainly much-less interesting being in civvie street. On TV Kenny Everett and Blake’s 7 were fab. Uncle Tony bought his mate Tony round, sports coach I think for Notts Forest FC or something, I’d not seen him in 5 years (an old RAF mate of dad’s both round to celebrate his joining them in the real world - or offer condolences, depends how you see it). UK Eurovision song contest was on, I liked one which lost in a tie with the eventual Stephanie De Sykes Guys & Dolls clone winner, and another one I liked did badly (Midnite). Clive James was terrific on Parkinson, sadly Clive is currently terminally ill but battling on, and even better was a new American nutter comic who was “totally HILARIOUS”. His name was Steve Martin, and it was the funniest show I’d seen in ages. I became an instant fan. The wacky Carol Channing was on the Muppets, I always liked her. Did a cartoon of John Foxx to celebrate 2 tracks in my charts, and mum’s cousin Pauline rang with medical problems news, and I hoped it wasn’t serious as it sounded (she got through it all, thankfully). As I was in full 1970 Singapore nostalgia mode, I rescued some table coasters for drinks we bought there which were now tatty and old and in the bin. I still have them. On saturday, Pete, Helen and Alan, college friends arrived to pick me up to travel to Julie’s for her 21st birthday bash in Camberbach, near Northwich. Her parents house was lovely and large, we took the micke out of poor JUlie sweating from rushing about, how cruel! Sue and Joe, Jane and Dave arrived, the disco started, and a fun evening had by all. Shared a room with the lads overnight, and back to Mansfield on Sunday by bus - at least that was the plan, so much dithering about by others meant it pulled out as we arrived. So I caught one to Derby, then to Mansfield. I arrived mid-chart-show right in the middle of new entry Ne Ne Na Na Na Na Nu Nu, so only got half on tape. Pah! |
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20th May 2015, 06:52 PM
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8th April 1980
The Jam get their first chart-topper as the unstoppable Going Underground shoves off The Monkees, and stops Genesis getting a first number one. Chuck in Madness rocketing up the Cairo aboard a Nightboat to 4, and a third consecutive top 5, and you have a pretty exciting top 4. Not to mention the smooth fab UB40 (soon to be my unemployment signing on UB40-form stylee signature tune) at 5, B.A. Robertson getting a hat-trick of top 10’s in his Kaftan, and the highest new entry at 7 from The Selecter, outdoing even debut On My Radio for a touch of sad melodic ska. New at 26, Dexy’s second top 40, the classic sax riffs of the brilliant Geno, and their tribute to 60’s soul star Geno Washington. Just behind at 27, The Pretenders are the talk of the town, following up a chart-topper, and grabbing a 4th top 40, as John Foxx drives up to 32 for his 2nd top 40, and David Essex drives in from nowhere at 38 in his silver dream machine, looking like he’s going to overtake John Foxx on a bend. David had the advantage of starring in the movie about car racing, and he tots up a non-stop run of largely fab hits for 7 years. At 54, it’s Blondie in Giorgio Moroder stomping disco film theme mode as Call Me follows Atomic into the charts and Rose Royce are back with Ooh Boy - excuse the grammar when I refer to bands as “they” rather than “it”, I know they are viewed as an entity, but I see them as a group of individuals under a single name, in much the same way as 4 people not in band would be a “they”. So at 57, they are back for 3 years of hits! Boys Cry, meanwhile, as Liverpool band Original Mirrors are at 61, and Manchester-based 10CC are back 8 years on with 125 at 72 - lotsa numbers, it’s really about one hundred and twenty five beats per minute and dancing. The Undertones keep their run of great chart entries coming as they reminisce about their perfect cousin at 74 and reference the soon-to-be-big Human League, as Judas Priest sneak in at 75 Living After Midnight, though I don’t know how as it wasn’t one I liked much to start with, then grew to hate with airplay. Hey ho! 1 ( 2 ) GOING UNDERGROUND The Jam 2 ( 4 ) TURN IT ON AGAIN Genesis 3 ( 1 ) MONKEES EP (LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE/ I’M A BELIEVER/ A LITTLE BIT ME A LITTLE BIT YOU/ DAYDREAM BELIEVER) The Monkees 4 ( 55 ) NIGHT BOAT TO CAIRO Madness 5 ( 13 ) FOOD FOR THOUGHT/ KING UB40 6 ( 21 ) KOOL IN THE KAFTAN B.A. Robertson 7 ( NEW ) MISSING WORDS The Selecter 8 ( 17 ) MY WORLD Secret Affair 9 ( 3 ) ECHO BEACH Martha And The Muffins 10 ( 5 ) ATOMIC Blondie 11 ( 12 ) LET’S DO ROCK STEADY The Bodysnatchers 12 ( 19 ) POISON IVY The Lambrettas 13 ( 24 ) NE-NE-NA-NA-NA-NA-NU-NU Bad Manners 14 ( 6 ) WORKING MY WAY BACK TO YOU The Detroit Spinners 15 ( 10 ) STOMP The Brothers Johnson 16 ( 18 ) JANUARY FEBRUARY Barbara Dickson 17 ( 7 ) SPIRIT OF RADIO Rush 18 ( 8 ) LONGER Dan Fogelberg 19 ( 9 ) TURNING JAPANESE The Vapors 20 ( 11 ) CUBA The Gibson Brothers 21 ( 16 ) ANOTHER NAIL FOR MY HEART Squeeze 22 ( 22 ) DANCE YOURSELF DIZZY Liquid Gold 23 ( 14 ) ALL NIGHT LONG Rainbow 24 ( 15 ) DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME Captain and Tennille 25 ( 26 ) HIM Rupert Holmes 26 ( NEW ) GENO Dexy’s Midnight Runners 27 ( NEW ) TALK OF THE TOWN The Pretenders 28 ( 28 ) HAPPY HOUSE Siouxsie And The Banshees 29 ( 20 ) SO LONELY The Police 30 ( 34 ) MY OH MY Sad Cafe 31 ( 23 ) TAKE THAT LOOK OFF YOUR FACE Marti Webb 32 ( 75 ) NO-ONE DRIVING John Foxx 33 ( 37 ) I’VE NEVER BEEN IN LOVE Suzi Quatro 34 ( 56 ) SEXY EYES Dr. Hook 35 ( 36 ) OUTSIDE MY WINDOW Stevie Wonder 36 ( 39 ) DON’T PUSH IT DON’T FORCE IT Leon Haywood 37 ( 30 ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 38 ( NEW ) SILVER DREAM MACHINE David Essex 39 ( 31 ) GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS Peter Gabriel 40 ( 29 ) LOVE PATROL The Dooleys 41 ( 27 ) TOGETHER WE ARE BEAUTIFUL Fern Kinney 42 ( 42 ) THE LIQUIDATOR Harry J and The All Stars 43 ( 47 ) CLEAN CLEAN The Buggles 44 ( 33 ) ROCK WITH YOU Michael Jackson 45 ( 35 ) CARRIE Cliff Richard 46 ( 53 ) HEARTBREAKER Pat Benatar 47 ( 38 ) TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG The Special AKA 48 ( 44 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 49 ( 45 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 50 ( 46 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 51 ( 43 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 52 ( 50 ) LOVE AND LONELINESS The Motors 53 ( 25 ) HANDS OFF - SHE’S MINE The Beat 54 ( NEW ) CALL ME Blondie 55 ( 51 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 56 ( 52 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 57 ( NEW ) OOH BOY Rose Royce 58 ( 58 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 59 ( 59 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 60 ( 32 ) TONIGHT I’M ALRIGHT Narada Michael Walden 61 ( NEW ) BOYS CRY Original Mirrors 62 ( 60 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 63 ( 63 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 64 ( 64 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 65 ( 65 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 66 ( 54 ) AND THE BEAT GOES ON The Whispers 67 ( 72 ) BRING IT ALL HOME Gerry Rafferty 68 ( 69 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 69 ( 70 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 70 ( 57 ) BUZZ BUZZ A DIDDLE IT Matchbox 71 ( 48 ) SO GOOD TO BE BACK HOME AGAIN The Tourists 72 ( NEW ) 125 10CC 73 ( 49 ) I CAN’T STAND UP FOR FALLING DOWN Elvis Costello 74 ( NEW ) MY PERFECT COUSIN The Undertones 75 ( NEW ) LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT Judas Priest TV 29th mar - 5th apr 1 Blake’s 7 2 The Kenny Everett Video Show 3 Butterflies 4 The Outer Limits 5 Top Of The Pops 6 Jan And Dean: TV film 7 Question Time 8 Tiswas 9 Film 80 10 Not The 9 O’Clock News 11 Police Story 12 The Muppet Show: Diana Ross 13 Private Eye 14 Life On Earth 15 S.P.Y. On TV: little bit of politics with Question Time and I raved about one guest, the young black NUS president Trevor Phillips (and future Peter Mandelson mate and controversial policy critic); some kiddie slapstick with Tiswas, a biopic on 60‘s surfer pop duo Jan And Dean, and a classic sci-fi season end Blake’s 7 episode on top. Fab! I had a day in Nottingham, with Aunty Eileen, Uncle Tony, and mum and dad, and bought some DC comics, and got some back issues from the comic shop, and was amazed at how familiar Wonder Woman issue 93 was, considering I’d not read it for 10 years (in Singapore). Got a Leif Garrett picture disc single, I Got You Babe and Telegram Sam, and a pair of jeans that were far too tight to wear when I got them home (I felt obliged to take them after the assistant went up and down ladders about 10 times trying to find a pair that fit me. Idiot!). Watched a Eurovision TV preview of the contest and rated Austria and Luxembourg as bing bang bong oldstyle winners. 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21st May 2015, 09:40 PM
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15th April 1980
Madness get their first chart-topper, as Night Boat To Cairo sails away ahead of the rest for a terrific bit of nutty-boy ska, which is bad news for UB40 stuck at 2. UB40 have never managed to beat this peak position, despite coming close many times, quite probably the most successful act never to top my charts, though lead singer Ali Campbell did at least manage it solo in 1995. Dexy’s Geno leaps into the top 10, outdoing Dance Stance, as another ska track from The Bodysnatchers joins the reggae top 10 party. Blondie rocket to 11, overtaking Atomic, as American Gigolo dance theme races to the top of the UK and US charts. Into the 20: Siouxsie, The Pretenders, David Essex, not a bad list. At 36, highest new entry is a bit of Bach - better late than never - as Sky do a pumped-up version of Toccata and Fugue, John Williams of the band following-up his 1979 version of The Deer Hunter. Meanwhile, The Undertones go top 40 with their Cuz, ahead of a bunch of new entries: Smokie at 54 doing a reasonable version of the much better Bobby Vee original Take Good Care Of My Baby, as their 5-year-run of singles was about to run out of steam. At 58, Pete Townsend finally gets a solo hit 7 years after Roger Daltrey managed it with Townsend’s own I’m Free and Leo Sayer’s Giving It All away: Rough Boys is his best solo single, still. Tom Petty has Refugee enter at 61, which extends his run to 3 years, and Graham Gouldman from 10CC has a solo entry from movie Animalympics, and some 14 years since he started his teenage hit-songwriting career for The Hollies and The Yardbirds. Lene Lovich entries seem to be getting smaller, but Billy Joel says it’s for Lene. I mean Leyna. Elvis Costello is in Hi-Fidelity, years before he was in Austin Powers, and Saxon debut with some metal wheels of steel. Sounds like a bumpy ride. 1 ( 4 ) NIGHT BOAT TO CAIRO Madness 2 ( 5 ) FOOD FOR THOUGHT/ KING UB40 3 ( 2 ) TURN IT ON AGAIN Genesis 4 ( 3 ) MONKEES EP (LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE/ I’M A BELIEVER/ A LITTLE BIT ME A LITTLE BIT YOU/ DAYDREAM BELIEVER) The Monkees 5 ( 6 ) KOOL IN THE KAFTAN B.A. Robertson 6 ( 7 ) MISSING WORDS The Selecter 7 ( 1 ) GOING UNDERGROUND The Jam 8 ( 26 ) GENO Dexy’s Midnight Runners 9 ( 11 ) LET’S DO ROCK STEADY The Bodysnatchers 10 ( 8 ) MY WORLD Secret Affair 11 ( 54 ) CALL ME Blondie 12 ( 9 ) ECHO BEACH Martha And The Muffins 13 ( 27 ) TALK OF THE TOWN The Pretenders 14 ( 16 ) JANUARY FEBRUARY Barbara Dickson 15 ( 10 ) ATOMIC Blondie 16 ( 12 ) POISON IVY The Lambrettas 17 ( 28 ) HAPPY HOUSE Siouxsie And The Banshees 18 ( 14 ) WORKING MY WAY BACK TO YOU The Detroit Spinners 19 ( 13 ) NE-NE-NA-NA-NA-NA-NU-NU Bad Manners 20 ( 38 ) SILVER DREAM MACHINE David Essex 21 ( 17 ) SPIRIT OF RADIO Rush 22 ( 25 ) HIM Rupert Holmes 23 ( 15 ) STOMP The Brothers Johnson 24 ( 30 ) MY OH MY Sad Cafe 25 ( 34 ) SEXY EYES Dr. Hook 26 ( 19 ) TURNING JAPANESE The Vapors 27 ( 20 ) CUBA The Gibson Brothers 28 ( 43 ) CLEAN CLEAN The Buggles 29 ( 32 ) NO-ONE DRIVING John Foxx 30 ( 22 ) DANCE YOURSELF DIZZY Liquid Gold 31 ( 18 ) LONGER Dan Fogelberg 32 ( 21 ) ANOTHER NAIL FOR MY HEART Squeeze 33 ( 35 ) OUTSIDE MY WINDOW Stevie Wonder 34 ( 42 ) THE LIQUIDATOR Harry J and The All Stars 35 ( 46 ) HEARTBREAKER Pat Benatar 36 ( NEW ) TOCCATA Sky 37 ( 23 ) ALL NIGHT LONG Rainbow 38 ( 29 ) SO LONELY The Police 39 ( 74 ) MY PERFECT COUSIN The Undertones 40 ( 24 ) DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME Captain and Tennille 41 ( 31 ) TAKE THAT LOOK OFF YOUR FACE Marti Webb 42 ( 36 ) DON’T PUSH IT DON’T FORCE IT Leon Haywood 43 ( 37 ) I HEAR YOU NOW Jon And Vangelis 44 ( 39 ) GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS Peter Gabriel 45 ( 40 ) LOVE PATROL The Dooleys 46 ( 41 ) TOGETHER WE ARE BEAUTIFUL Fern Kinney 47 ( 49 ) I HAVE A DREAM Abba 48 ( 48 ) BRASS IN POCKET The Pretenders 49 ( 47 ) TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG The Special AKA 50 ( 51 ) WALKING ON THE MOON The Police 51 ( 50 ) ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) Pink Floyd 52 ( 44 ) ROCK WITH YOU Michael Jackson 53 ( 45 ) CARRIE Cliff Richard 54 ( NEW ) TAKE GOOD CARE OF MY BABY Smokie 55 ( 55 ) CONFUSION/ LAST TRAIN TO LONDON E.L.O. 56 ( 33 ) I’VE NEVER BEEN IN LOVE Suzi Quatro 57 ( 56 ) NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN The Moody Blues 58 ( NEW ) ROUGH BOYS Pete Townsend 59 ( 58 ) GET IT RIGHT NEXT TIME Gerry Rafferty 60 ( 59 ) DON'T BRING ME DOWN E.L.O. 61 ( NEW ) REFUGEE Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 62 ( NEW ) LOVE’S NOT FOR ME (from ANIMALYMPICS) Graham Gouldman 63 ( 52 ) LOVE AND LONELINESS The Motors 64 ( 63 ) TUSK Fleetwood Mac 65 ( 64 ) GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) Abba 66 ( 65 ) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE The Police 67 ( 62 ) SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN The Bee Gees 68 ( NEW ) WHAT WILL I DO WITHOUT YOU Lene Lovich 69 ( NEW ) ALL FOR LEYNA Billy Joel 70 ( 68 ) BAKER STREET Gerry Rafferty 71 ( 69 ) DREADLOCK HOLIDAY 10CC 72 ( 57 ) OOH BOY Rose Royce 73 ( 75 ) LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT Judas Priest 74 ( NEW ) HIGH-FIDELITY Elvis Costello 75 ( NEW ) WHEELS OF STEEL Saxon 5-11th April TV 1 Support Your Local Sheriff: film 1 Some Like It Hot: film 1 Soap 4 Where Angels Go Trouble Follows: film 5 Tiswas 6 The Sound Of Music: film 7 Top Of The Pops 8 Parkinson: Bette Midler 9 The Outer Limits 10 Not The 9 O’Clock News 11 Omnibus: Chuck Jones (Road Runner & co) 12 Barney Miller 13 Butterflies 14 Plaza Suite: film 15 The Risk Business 16 They Shoot Horses Don’t They: film 17 James Burke 18 Dallas 19 Mork And Mindy 20 Bee Gees Special On TV lots of holiday movie faves, one of them not been on since I think (Where Angels Go Trouble Follows, a comedy nun movie and sort of early Sister Act with the fab Stella Stevens, Susan Saint James and Rosalind Russell, and also Dolores Sutton who actually WAS in Sister Act as well as a nun). Bette Midler was manic and hilarious on Parkinson, while Omnibus gave Road Runner & Wile E Coyote creator Chuck Jones the in-depth appreciation (and well-deserved). On the radio, Ian Dury was on Rosko’s Roundtable reviewing the latest single releases. On classic sitcom Soap, there were flying saucers, possessed babies, an insulting puppet, and more. What’s not to love!?! On saturday kiddies show TISWAS there was John Peel, The Bodysnatchers, The Specials and Cozy Powell. Meanwhile on Dallas, the villainous JR Ewing, as played by the fab Larry Hagman, had me smirking throughout. Dallas always knew it was part-comedy, rival Dynasty mistakingly thought it was a sitcom. Went to see LIfe OF Brian again at the cinema, convinced it was an all-time classic. Malcolm Muggeridge was on TV blasting the movie, calling it inconsequential and that it would be forgotten fairly quickly. “I think it’ll last and outlive him for sure” I ventured correctly, if bitterly. Finally, the second Eurovision preview was on TV, and I tipped Greece and Austria, Italy, Ireland and Switzerland. Ireland won, of course, Switzerland 4th. |
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