Posted April 29, 201015 yr UK Top 40 Singles - week ending 3 May 1986 1. George Michael - A Different Corner 2. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus 3. Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately 4. Madonna - Live To Tell 5. Grange Hill Cast - Just Say No 6. Queen - A Kind Of Magic 7. Five Star - Can't Wait Another Minute 8. Big Country - Look Away 9. Level 42 - Lessons In Love 10. Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All 11. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine 12. Aurra - You & Me Tonight 13. Cliff Richard & The Young Ones - Living Doll 14. Samantha Fox - Touch Me (I Want Your Body) 15. Simple Minds - All The Things She Said 16. Atlantic Star - Secret Lovers 17. S.O.S Band - The Finest 18. Sam Cooke - Wonderful World 19. Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald - On My Own 20. Real Thing - You To Me Are Everything (Decade Remix) 21. A-ha - Train Of Thought 22. It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home (Jim's Tune) 23. Suzanne Vega - Marlene On The Wall 24. Princess - I'll Keep On Loving You 25. Joyce Sims - All And All 26. Hear 'N' Aid - Stars 27. Big Audio Dynamite - E=Mc2 28. Depeche Mode - A Question Of Lust 29. Billy Ocean - There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) 30. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer 31. Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love 32. Maxi Priest - Strollin' On 33. Belouis Some - Some People 34. Art Of Noise ft Duane Eddy - Peter Gunn 35. Cure - Boys Don't Cry 36. Bronski Beat - C'mon C'mon 37. Force M.D'S - Tender Love 38. Style Council - Have You Ever Had It Blue 39. Dire Straits - Your Latest Trick 40. St John's College School Choir & The Band Of The Grenadier Guards - The Queen's Birthday Song
April 30, 201015 yr i liked 1986, twas the last good year for over a decade imho 1. George Michael - A Different Corner .......... imho one of the best ever love story/ballads. a fantstic track! 2. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus ...... ok 3. Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately.... hate her but this was ok 4. Madonna - Live To Tell ......... absolute classic, a far superior/mature track then the pop garbage she releases now. 5. Grange Hill Cast - Just Say No ... thought this had a great melody! 7. Five Star - Can't Wait Another Minute ..... surprisingly perhaps, i like 5 star, they have aged well andi dont mind hearing them. 9. Level 42 - Lessons In Love .... ok 13. Cliff Richard & The Young Ones - Living Doll....:rofl: 17. S.O.S Band - The Finest ....... a great underrated band, this is damn good. 21. A-ha - Train Of Thought ...... good pop 22. It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home (Jim's Tune)... absolute classic, love the 60's stylr production and 'traveling' beat.. 27. Big Audio Dynamite - E=Mc2 .... uplifting pop, a very pleasant song. 30. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer .... more class pop.
April 30, 201015 yr 1986 was the year I began to lose a lot of interest in following the charts. I'd already stopped buying Record Mirror on a regular basis the previous November and by now I wasn't even listening to the top 40 on a Sunday, though in part that was because I was working in a pub on a Sunday doing both the lunchtime shift (12pm to 2pm back then!) and then doing another shift on the evening (7pm to 10.30pm) so my chances to listen in were more limited as I spent a large part of when the top 40 was broadcasting travelling to the pub for the evening shift. That said, I did have one last spell of buying singles around April 1986 before more or less giving up for a while (until mid to late 1989) so I owned quite a few of the singles in this chart: 1. George Michael - A Different Corner 3. Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately 4. Madonna - Live To Tell 9. Level 42 - Lessons In Love 17. S.O.S Band - The Finest 19. Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald - On My Own 21. A-ha - Train Of Thought 22. It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home (Jim's Tune) 23. Suzanne Vega - Marlene On The Wall 25. Joyce Sims - All And All 27. Big Audio Dynamite - E=Mc2 31. Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love 34. Art Of Noise ft Duane Eddy - Peter Gunn That is probably the most top 40 singles I'd owned for quite some time but once these songs had dropped out of the chart I don't think I owned another top 40 single until With Or Without You by U2 almost a year later... I'd bought the Janet Jackson single off the back of hearing it on Channel 4's then new Friday early evening music show, The Chart Show. However I made the mistake of buying the 12" version which plodded on and on and on...
April 30, 201015 yr I had quite a lot of this on on Now 7. 6. Queen - A Kind Of Magic 8. Big Country - Look Away 9. Level 42 - Lessons In Love - brilliant pop song 11. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine 13. Cliff Richard & The Young Ones - Living Doll - I loved this when it came out, still a very funny video. 18. Sam Cooke - Wonderful World 28. Depeche Mode - A Question Of Lust 30. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer 35. Cure - Boys Don't Cry I really want to hear this - how bloody bizarre is this? 60 years young Liz, you didn't look it.... 40. St John's College School Choir & The Band Of The Grenadier Guards - The Queen's Birthday Song
April 30, 201015 yr Author 1. George Michael - A Different Corner really not a fan of this song 2. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus 3. Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately one of her better records, I actually prefer her to Michael 4. Madonna - Live To Tell class, one of her best ever songs 5. Grange Hill Cast - Just Say No embarrassing 6. Queen - A Kind Of Magic 7. Five Star - Can't Wait Another Minute 8. Big Country - Look Away 9. Level 42 - Lessons In Love 10. Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All 11. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine 13. Cliff Richard & The Young Ones - Living Doll 14. Samantha Fox - Touch Me (I Want Your Body) 16. Atlantic Star - Secret Lovers 17. S.O.S Band - The Finest 18. Sam Cooke - Wonderful World 19. Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald - On My Own 20. Real Thing - You To Me Are Everything (Decade Remix) 21. A-ha - Train Of Thought 24. Princess - I'll Keep On Loving You my favourite track in the chart, a great SAW track before they turned to Smash Hits fodder 25. Joyce Sims - All And All 27. Big Audio Dynamite - E=Mc2 28. Depeche Mode - A Question Of Lust 30. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer 32. Maxi Priest - Strollin' On 34. Art Of Noise ft Duane Eddy - Peter Gunn
May 1, 201015 yr The top 10 is twaddle only being saved by Big Country and that was far from their best tune. These are the ones I like: 11. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine This is class 15. Simple Minds - All The Things She Said 18. Sam Cooke - Wonderful World 22. It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home (Jim's Tune) 23. Suzanne Vega - Marlene On The Wall 27. Big Audio Dynamite - E=Mc2 28. Depeche Mode - A Question Of Lust 30. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer 31. Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love 35. Cure - Boys Don't Cry Best tunes were It's Immaterial and B.A.D.
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