16.07.1983 : Sarah Brightman - Him (2 weeks # 1)

 

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Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter, dancer. She has sung in many languages, including English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Occitan.

 

Brightman began her career as a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer. In 1981, she made her West End musical theatre debut in Cats and met composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whom she married. She went on to star in several Broadway musicals, including The Phantom of the Opera, where she originated the role of Christine Daaé. The Original London Cast Album of the musical was released in CD format in 1987 and sold 40 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest-selling cast album of all time.

 

Her 1996 duet with the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, "Time To Say Goodbye", topped charts all over Europe and became the highest and fastest selling single of all time in Germany, where it stayed at the top of the charts for fourteen consecutive weeks and sold over 3 million copies. It subsequently became an international success selling 12 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time. She has now collected over 180 gold and platinum sales awards in 38 different countries. In 2010 she was named by Billboard the 5th most influential and best-selling classical artist of the 2000s decade in the U.S and according to Nielsen SoundScan, she has sold 6.5 million albums in the country.

 

Brightman is the first artist to have been invited twice to perform at the Olympic Games, first at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games where she sang "Amigos Para Siempre" with the Spanish tenor Jose Carreras with an estimated global audience of a billion people, and sixteen years later in Beijing, this time with Chinese singer Liu Huan, performing the song "You and Me" to an estimated 4 billion people worldwide.

 

"Him" is her early pop single from 1983, which peaked at #55 in the UK singles charts.

Edited May 16, 201312 yr by AlexRange

 

30.07.1983 : Kim Wilde - Love Blonde (1 week # 1)

 

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"Love Blonde" is the first single from the Kim Wilde album "Catch as Catch Can", released in 1983.

 

The song sold moderately, restoring some of the ground lost from her previous release "Child Come Away" and is reputedly about Wilde herself.

 

Top 10 hit in Sweden and Netherlands, # 23 in United Kingdom.

 

06.08.1983 : Agnetha Faltskog - Wrap Your Arms Around Me (2 weeks # 1)

 

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"Wrap Your Arms Around Me" is the first English-language solo album by former ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog. It was released on 31 May 1983 through Polar Music. The album was produced by Mike Chapman. The first track from the album, "The Heat Is On", is commonly regarded as Fältskog's best-known 1980s solo hit, while "Can't Shake Loose" became the first of only two solo singles from Fältskog to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, peaking at number 29. The single "The Heat Is On", was a hit all over Europe and Scandinavia. It reached number one in Sweden and Norway and number two in Netherlands and Belgium. In Europe, the single "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" was another successful hit, topping the charts in Belgium and Denmark, reaching Top 5 in Sweden, Netherlands and South Africa, and Top 20 in Germany and France. The track "Man" was the only song on the album written by Fältskog herself in contrast to her pre-ABBA 1960s recordings in Swedish, which were mostly self-written. The album was a hit in Europe, selling over 2 million copies.

 

20.08.1983 : Star Sisters - Stars on 45 (5 weeks # 1)

 

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Finally I can put the Dutch pop group on the top of this chart, because this medley of 50s hits was # 80 in official UK charts.

 

Star Sisters were a female Dance/Pop trio from The Netherlands that were very popular during the 1980s, most notably as the ladies who performed the chorus as members of Jaap Eggermont's studio act Stars on 45 and in a spinoff in which they performed as The Andrews Sisters in a medley that charted internationally in 1984.

 

The members were Sylvana van Veen, Patricia Paay and Yvonne Keeley. Paay and Keeley are sisters in real life. In 1984, they performed a song (during the film's end credits) on the Japanese film The Return of Godzilla.

 

Between 1983 and 1987 the group released only six hits in Europe, including their best known hits "Are You Ready For My Love" in 1986 and "He's The 1 (I Love)" in 1985.

Edited May 17, 201312 yr by AlexRange

 

17.09.1983 : Sheena Easton - Telephone (4 weeks # 1)

 

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"Telephone (Long Distance Love Affair)" is a dance/pop single recorded by Scottish singer Sheena Easton, the first single released from her fourth album, 1983's "Best Kept Secre"t.

 

The song was most successful in the US, where it became Easton's fourth top 10 hit, peaking at number nine in late 1983. The music video, shot in black & white, featured Easton in a haunted house and a cemetery, being pursued by Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame before being rescued by King Kong.

 

# 84 in UK Singles Chart.

Edited May 17, 201312 yr by AlexRange

 

22.10.1983 : Carpenters - Make Believe It's Your First Time (3 weeks # 1)

 

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"Make Believe It's Your First Time" is a song written by Bob Morrison and Johnny Wilson, and recorded by Bobby Vinton and later by the popular group The Carpenters.

 

Vinton's version entered the Billboard charts in late 1979 (b/w "I Remember Loving You") and reached #78 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #17 on the Adult Contemporary chart. It is Vinton's last Billboard Hot 100 entry to date.

 

The Carpenters' version was also recorded in 1979 by Karen Carpenter as a track intended for her debut solo album, which was ultimately shelved until 1996, with the release of her eponymous album, Karen Carpenter. After Karen's death in 1983, the song and its B-side, "Look to Your Dreams", were included on the duo's first posthumous album, Voice of the Heart. The single was also their first posthumous single.

 

# 60 in UK Singles Chart.

Edited May 17, 201312 yr by AlexRange

 

12.11.1983 : ABBA - Thank You For The Music (3 weeks # 1)

 

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"Thank You for the Music" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was originally featured on the group's fifth studio album ABBA: The Album (1977), and was released as a single on 6 November 1983, to promote the Epic Records compilation album of the same name (similar compilations were released in other countries). The song "Our Last Summer", which was originally featured on the group's seventh studio album Super Trouper (1980), was the B-side. The song was simultaneously released in Ireland (as Epic were the licensees for both UK and Ireland), and later released in France (by Disques Vogue), with the same B-side but different artwork, and Netherlands (by Polydor Records), with "Medley" as the B-side (and again, different artwork).

 

Agnetha Fältskog performed the lead vocals, with Anni-Frid Lyngstad joining in on the chorus. "Thank You for the Music" was intended to form part of a "mini-musical" called "The Girl with the Golden Hair" (a phrase which is featured in the song) that songwriters Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson included in ABBA's 1977 tour. It was the opening track in the four-song musical, which also included "I Wonder (Departure)", "I'm a Marionette" and "Get on the Carousel". The first three songs from the musical were featured on ABBA: The Album; the latter remains unreleased. "Thank You for the Music" is more well known in its own right today as it features in the musical Mamma Mia!.

 

"Thank You for the Music" was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland at the time, peaking at number 33 and number 17 respectively, despite being released in both a poster sleeve and a picture disc in addition to the regular version. The low chart placings could be attributed to ABBA's declining popularity since their last Top 10 hit in 1981. Because of the song's inclusion on ABBA: The Album and Greatest Hits Vol.2 (both of which topped the UK charts), as well as being performed by the band during their world tours, it can be said that "Thank You for the Music" had been heard by fans and the like many times up to this point. The title itself is often also taken to signal the end of ABBA, leading it to be considered a farewell song. In the Netherlands, the song peaked at number 38, but in France it could only manage number 58.

Edited May 17, 201312 yr by AlexRange

 

03.12.1983 : Bucks Fizz - Rules Of The Game (4 weeks # 1)

 

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The song was written by Warren Harry (under the name Warren Bacall), who had written their top 10 hit "When We Were Young" a few months earlier. It was produced by Brian Tench with co-production by Andy Hill.

 

Released in November 1983, the single proved to be one of the group's least successful singles, peaking at No.57. Despite this, it remained on the Top 100 Chart for 10 weeks. The record's chart failure was commented on by the group some months later, with member Jay Aston stating; "It didn't get played. It came out a bit too soon after 'London Town' and got a bit lost among the Christmas stuff". Bobby G agreed that the record company was putting out too many singles at the time, "We gave them a lot of material and record companies, being what they are, released it." Following this they decided simply to not give any of their finished material over. As a result, the next single was released some nine months later.

 

The single was released in tandem with their first Greatest Hits album. The B-Side, "When We Were at War", a ballad, was written by the group themselves. At 6 minutes running length, it remains the longest song recorded by the group. "Rules of the Game" features lead vocals by member Cheryl Baker. The song's lyrics centre on a woman who becomes famous and turns her back on her old friends, but when the fame ends, she finds herself desperately lonely. Baker has since said of her dislike for this song, stating that she finds the lyrics depressing and was unhappy with the affected way she was asked to sing, although it remains a fan-favourite. The Promotional Video shows the group performing the song as moderators of a game featuring two martial arts players.

Edited May 17, 201312 yr by AlexRange

 

31.12.1983 : Kirsty MacColl - Terry (2 weeks # 1)

 

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"Terry" is a song by Kirsty MacColl, released as a single in October 1983, and charting at #82 in the UK the following month. It was her first release after returning to Stiff Records, and was the last in a run of poorly-selling singles released between "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" and "A New England".

Edited May 18, 201312 yr by AlexRange

It's really intresting year with some very unpredictable and low-known # 1 singles. Many artists got their first # 1 hits.

Most impressive fight for Song Of the Year after 1975 between ABBA, Bucks Fizz and Sweet Dreams.

 

All my personal # 1 singles (1983) :

01. Annie Haslam & Nevada - In The Bleak Midwinter (2 weeks # 1)

02. Bucks Fizz - If You Can't Stand The Heat (2 weeks # 1)

03. Crystal Gayle - Everything I Own (3 weeks # 1)

04. Renee and Renato - Just One More Kiss (2 weeks # 1)

05. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (2 weeks # 1)

06. Rocky Sharpe & The Replays - If You Wanna Be Happy (1 week # 1)

07. Sweet Dreams - I'm Never Giving Up (5 weeks # 1)

08. Ann Breen - Pal of My Cradle Days (3 weeks # 1)

09. Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly - Moonlight Shadow (5 weeks # 1)

10. Mari Wilson - Wonderful (2 weeks # 1)

11. Sarah Brightman - Him (2 weeks # 1)

12. Kim Wilde - Love Blonde (1 week # 1)

13. Agnetha Faltskog - Wrap Your Arms Around Me (2 weeks # 1)

14. Star Sisters - Stars on 45 (5 weeks # 1)

15. Sheena Easton - Telephone (4 weeks # 1)

16. Carpenters - Make Believe It's Your First Time (3 weeks # 1)

17. ABBA - Thank You For The Music (3 weeks # 1)

18. Bucks Fizz - Rules Of The Game (4 weeks # 1)

19. Kirsty MacColl - Terry (2 weeks # 1)

 

Personal Awards:

Best single, which was not my personal # 1 : Olivia Newton-John - Twist Of Fate

Most # 1 singles : Bucks Fizz (2)

Most # 1 weeks : Bucks Fizz (6)

Singer of the Year : Bonnie Tyler

Group of the Year : Bucks Fizz

Favourite Eurovision song : Sweet Dreams - I'm Never Giving Up (United Kingdom)

Favourite official UK # 1 single : Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

Song of the Year : Sweet Dreams - I'm Never Giving Up

Edited May 18, 201312 yr by AlexRange

It's really intresting year with some very unpredictable and low-known # 1 singles. Many artists got their first # 1 hits.

Most impressive fight for Song Of the Year after 1975 between ABBA, Bucks Fizz and Sweet Dreams.

 

All my personal # 1 singles (1983) :

01. Annie Haslam & Nevada - In The Bleak Midwinter (2 weeks # 1)

02. Bucks Fizz - If You Can't Stand The Heat (2 weeks # 1)

03. Crystal Gayle - Everything I Own (3 weeks # 1)

04. Renee and Renato - Just One More Kiss (2 weeks # 1)

05. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (2 weeks # 1)

06. Rocky Sharpe & The Replays - If You Wanna Be Happy (1 week # 1)

07. Sweet Dreams - I'm Never Giving Up (5 weeks # 1)

08. Ann Breen - Pal of My Cradle Days (3 weeks # 1)

09. Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly - Moonlight Shadow (5 weeks # 1)

10. Mari Wilson - Wonderful (2 weeks # 1)

11. Sarah Brightman - Him (2 weeks # 1)

12. Kim Wilde - Love Blonde (1 week # 1)

13. Agnetha Faltskog - Wrap Your Arms Around Me (2 weeks # 1)

14. Star Sisters - Stars on 45 (5 weeks # 1)

15. Sheena Easton - Telephone (4 weeks # 1)

16. Carpenters - Make Believe It's Your First Time (3 weeks # 1)

17. ABBA - Thank You For The Music (3 weeks # 1)

18. Bucks Fizz - Rules Of The Game (4 weeks # 1)

19. Kirsty MacColl - Terry

 

Personal Awards:

Best single, which was not my personal # 1 : Olivia Newton-John - Twist Of Fate

Most # 1 singles : Bucks Fizz (2)

Most # 1 weeks : Bucks Fizz (6)

Singer of the Year : Bonnie Tyler

Group of the Year : Bucks Fizz

Favourite Eurovision song : Sweet Dreams - I'm Never Giving Up (United Kingdom)

Favourite official UK # 1 single : Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

Song of the Year : Sweet Dreams - I'm Never Giving Up

 

Hi Alex,

 

one of your most interesting lists I think, 3 were number ones in my chart, but many of the non-hits and minor hits also did OK in my charts execpt some I will check out like Annie Haslam. I like the sound of it....

 

cheers

john

 

14.01.1984 : Madonna - Holiday (4 weeks # 1)

 

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"Holiday" is a song by American singer Madonna from her self-titled debut album.

 

"Holiday" was released on September 7, 1983, and became Madonna's first hit single and remained on the charts from the timespan of Thanksgiving to Christmas in 1983. It was Madonna's first song to enter the Billboard Hot 100, at 88 on the issue dated October 29, 1983 and reached a peak of 16 on January 28, 1984 and was on the chart for 21 weeks. It was released with "Lucky Star" as a double-A side single.

 

In Canada, the song debuted at number 48 position of the RPM singles chart on January 21, 1984 and peaked at 39. The song again entered the chart at 45 in March 1984, and peaked at 32 on April 1984. It was on the chart for 12 weeks. In the United Kingdom, "Holiday" was released in 1984 whence it charted and reached a peak of six on the chart. However, a re-release in 1985 with "Think of Me" on the B-side, saw the song enter the charts at number 32 and reached a new peak of two on the chart, being held off the number one spot by Madonna's own "Into the Groove", while being present for ten weeks. Another re-release in 1991 saw the song reach a peak of five on the chart. The song was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in August 1985. According to The Official Charts Company, the song has sold 770,000 copies there. Across Europe, the song reached the top ten of Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Ireland while reaching the top 40 in France, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland. It also made the top five in Australia. The song debuted at number 37 on the New Zealand Singles Chart, making it Madonna's debut single in the country. It peaked at number seven.

Edited May 20, 201312 yr by AlexRange

 

11.02.1984 : Katrina & The Waves - Que Te Quiero (2 weeks # 1)

 

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Katrina and the Waves were an English rock band best known for the 1985 hit "Walking on Sunshine." They also won the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Love Shine a Light."

 

The band's earliest incarnation was as The Waves, a group that played in and around Cambridge, England, from 1975 to 1977 and featured guitarist Kimberley Rew and drummer Alex Cooper. This incarnation of the Waves never issued any recordings, and broke up when Rew left to join the Soft Boys. A more direct ancestor of Katrina and the Waves was the band Mama's Cookin', a pop cover band hailing from Feltwell, England. This band, founded in 1978, featured American Katrina Leskanich on vocals and keyboards, and her then-boyfriend Vince de la Cruz on vocals and lead guitar. By late 1980, Alex Cooper had joined the band on drums, with Bob Jakins on bass. Mama's Cookin' proceeded to gig steadily in England over the next two years, specialising in covers of songs by American acts such as Heart, Foreigner, Linda Ronstadt, and ZZ Top.

The Waves made their initial recorded appearances on a 1982 single ("Nightmare"/"Hey, War Pig!"); both tracks were included on the 1982 Rew solo album called The Bible of Bop. The Waves then issued their debut EP Shock Horror later in 1982. Around this time, bassist Jakins left the band. Jakins was not replaced, as de la Cruz took over on bass and the band was rechristened Katrina and the Waves.

 

In 1984, the group released a follow-up album in Canada (Katrina and the Waves 2), with Leskanich now handling all the lead vocals. Rew was still the primary songwriter, but de la Cruz was also responsible for a few songs, including the Canadian airplay hit "Mexico (Que Te Queiro)", but UK peak position was only # 84 in the singles chart.

 

Also in 1984, their song “Going Down to Liverpool” was covered by the Bangles, which added to their profile. With the group building a fan base with their recordings and extensive touring, major label interest began to build, and Katrina and the Waves eventually signed an international deal with Capitol Records in 1985.

 

 

25.02.1984 : Debbie Harry - Rush Rush (3 weeks # 1)

 

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"Rush Rush" is a song by the American vocalist Debbie Harry. Released as a single in 1983, it is taken from the soundtrack album of the film Scarface (1983).

 

"Rush Rush" was released as a single on Chrysalis Records in the US, UK, Germany and most other parts of the world and was Harry's second collaboration with producer Giorgio Moroder, the first being the charttopping "Call Me" from the 1980 Richard Gere movie American Gigolo. "Rush Rush" was released both as a 7" single and an extended 12", the A-side of which would later be included on the 1988 Blondie/Debbie Harry remix compilation "Once More into the Bleach" as well as Harry's 1999 greatest hits compilation "Most of All - The Best of Deborah Harry".

 

"Rush Rush" peaked at No. 105 on the US Billboard chart, but became a moderate US dance hit[citation needed]. The single also peaked at No. 87 in UK. "Rush Rush" was the first single Harry released after Blondie broke up in 1982. It was one of the several side projects Harry worked on in between her solo debut album Koo Koo and her second solo album Rockbird and a music video clip was serviced to video stations, but it was primarily a montage of clips from Harry's past videos including ones from Blondie.

 

 

17.03.1984 : Madonna - Lucky Star (4 weeks # 1)

 

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"Lucky Star" is a song by American pop singer Madonna from her debut studio album of the same name. Originally released in the United Kingdom on September 8, 1983, by Sire Records, it was the fourth single from the album. The song also appears on her hits compilations The Immaculate Collection (1990) and Celebration (2009). "Lucky Star" was written by Madonna and produced by Reggie Lucas. However, during recording, Madonna was not impressed by Lucas' version. She called her then boyfriend John "Jellybean" Benitez to remix the track according to her ideas. "Lucky Star" is a medium-paced dance track and combines the heavy beats of a drum with the sounds of a guitar played in a high riff. The lyrics juxtapose the male body with the heavenly stars in the sky.

 

Both contemporary and modern critics praised the song, heralding it as the introduction to upbeat dance music. "Lucky Star" became Madonna's first top-five hit on the Billboard Hot 100, when it reached the peak position of four, becoming the first single in her record-breaking string of 16 consecutive top-ten hits. It had already become Madonna's first number-one song on the Billboard dance charts, when it peaked the chart alongside the previously released single "Holiday".

 

In the United Kingdom, "Lucky Star" was originally released as the album's second single in September 1983, simultaneously with "Holiday" in the United States. In March 1984, it was re-issued and then debuted on the UK Singles Chart at 47, and reached a peak of 14 after three weeks. The song was present on the chart for nine weeks. According to The Official Charts Company, "Lucky Star" has sold 117,470 copies in the United Kingdom, as of August 2008. In Ireland, the song was able to reach 19 on the Irish official charts. In Australia, the song made the top 40 of the Kent Music Report chart and peaked at 36.

Edited May 21, 201312 yr by AlexRange

 

14.04.1984 : Elaine Paige - Sometimes (2 weeks # 1)

 

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"Sometimes" was the single from 4th solo Elaine Paige album "Cinema". The album was released in 1984 on Warner Music, peaking at #12 in the UK album charts. This album has been re-issued on CD. It was the second of Paige's recordings to be produced by Tony Visconti. To follow the theme of Stages, Paige chose tracks that had been previously recorded for soundtracks. Like Stages, the recording was primarily conducted at Visconti's Good Earth Studios, other than for "Sometimes" (Theme from Champions) which had been previously recorded at CTS Studios, London featuring the New World Philharmonia.

 

# 72 in UK Singles Chart.

Edited May 21, 201312 yr by AlexRange

 

21.04.1984 : Kerrie Biddell & Mick Leyton - Sons And Daughters (3 weeks # 1)

 

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Kerrie Biddell is Australian singer. Her first live gig was as a backing singer for Dusty Springfield at Chequers in the mid 60's. She is third generation professional musician and it was inevitable that after the experience with Dusty she started singing full time - it was in her blood. She briefly joined a group called The Echoes and later joined the well known band The Affair, which had James Kelly, guitar and Tony Bolton, drums and Phillip Rigg on bass. Phillip Rigg left and was replaced by Mike Howlett (Gong) and this line up of the band worked at Whisky au Go Go, Hawaiian Eye and generally toured the Australian rock scene with bands like The Strangers, The Executives, The La Di Das and others for about 3 years before winning the 1969 Battle of the Sounds and going to England.

 

She returned to pursue a solo career and also joined the Daly-Wilson Big Band. During this time she toured with Dudley Moore, Cilla Black and Buddy Rich. She was a regular on TV variety shows and had her own radio show, Kerrie Biddell and Friends on ABC radio.

 

In 1982 she sang the theme tune for the successful Network 7 soap opera "Sons And Daughters". In the 1980's she sang with the Con big band working and studying with such greats as Howie Smith, Rufus Reed, Dave Liebman (her improvisation teacher), Ray Brown, John Hoffman and many others.

 

# 68 in UK Singles Chart.

Edited May 21, 201312 yr by AlexRange

 

19.05.1984 : Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero (3 weeks # 1)

 

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"Holding Out for a Hero" is a song written by Jim Steinman and Dean Pitchford, originally recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. It was released in 1984 on the soundtrack to the film Footloose. It later appeared on Tyler's album "Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire". It hit #96 for the first time in the United Kingdom in 1984, #2 in 1985, #69 in 1991. The opening couplet – "Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?/ Where's the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds?" – could be seen as an example of the ubi sunt motif in literature.

 

At the beginning of the music video, Bonnie Tyler escapes from a burning house; the video is set primarily in the vicinity of the burning house and on the edge of the Grand Canyon – interspersed with shots of angelic background singers dressed all in white. Evil cowboys dressed in black, carrying neon whips appear before Tyler, threatening her; a cowboy hero dressed in white, brandishing a pistol, appears on horseback and the evil cowboys flee on horseback, with the hero in pursuit. As the song fades out, the hero cowboy appears in front of Bonnie Tyler.

Edited May 23, 201312 yr by AlexRange

 

02.06.1984 : Madonna - Borderline (5 weeks # 1)

 

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"Borderline" is a song by American recording artist Madonna from her self-titled debut album. It was released on February 15, 1984 as the fifth single from the album, by Sire Records. Written and composed by producer Reggie Lucas, the song received remix treatment from Madonna's then boyfriend John "Jellybean" Benitez. She used a refined and expressive voice for the song. Its lyrics dealt with the subject of a love that is never fulfilled and was written as a rebellion against male chauvinism.

 

Contemporary critics and authors applauded the song, calling it harmonically the most complex song from the Madonna album and complimenting the dance-pop nature of the song. "Borderline" became Madonna's first top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at ten. Elsewhere, the song reached the top 20 of a number of European nations while peaking the singles chart of Ireland. The song was placed at 84 on Blender magazine's "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born", while Time included it on the critic list "All-Time 100 Songs".

 

In the United Kingdom, with the original release of the song on June 2, 1984, it was able to reach a peak of only 56. However, upon re-releasing the song on January 1, 1986, it reached a new peak of two on the chart and was present for a total of nine weeks. The song was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on February 1986. According to The Official Charts Company, the song has sold 310,000 copies there. Across Europe the song topped the chart in Ireland and entered the top ten of Belgium and Netherlands. It also peaked at 23 in Switzerland and 12 in Australia. In New Zealand, the song debuted at number 47, until falling then re-entering for a sole week at number 49. In New Zealand, "Borderline" is Madonna's most unsuccessful single to date.

Edited May 23, 201312 yr by AlexRange

 

14.07.1984 : Tracie Young - (I Love You) When You Sleep (4 weeks # 1)

 

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Tracie Young (often just billed as Tracie) was a pop singer in the 1980s. She achieved success after becoming a protegee of Paul Weller.

 

Before recording solo work for Respond, Weller sought to increase exposure for Young. He promptly utilized her for backing vocals on The Jam's final single, "Beat Surrender", which was released on 26 November 1982 and became the band's fourth #1 single. Weller also had Young join the group for their appearance on Top Of The Pops to promote the song. In January 1983, Young contributed vocals for The Style Council's first single, "Speak Like a Child", and also appeared in the promotional video for the song. As an unofficial member of the group, Young toured with The Style Council for part of 1983, while also performing as a solo artist as part of a Respond package tour.

 

Young was featured on the cover of the April 9, 1983 issue of New Musical Express with the banner "Tracie: The girl star Paul Weller would build". She was also voted "Most Fanciable Female" in Smash Hits 1983 readers' poll.

 

Signed to Respond, she had UK hit singles in March 1983 with "The House That Jack Built" and in July with "Give it Some Emotion" (both credited simply to 'Tracie') Her debut album, Far from the Hurting Kind, was released in 1984 under the name Tracie. It featured production, backing, and songwriting from Weller, as well as an Elvis Costello song written especially for her, "(I Love You) When You Sleep" (# 59 in United Kingdom Singles Chart). The album was reissued in Japan in 1996.

 

Young recorded with The Style Council again in 1985, contributing backing vocals to the song "Boy Who Cried Wolf", a single taken from the album "Our Favourite Shop". Respond ceased operations in 1986 and Young was briefly signed by Polydor. The second album she recorded whilst signed to Polydor, titled "No Smoke Without Fire", remains unreleased.

 

In 2010, with the cooperation of Young, Cherry Red Records reissued her 1984 debut "Far from the Hurting Kind", marking the first time the album has been available in the UK on CD. The 20 track CD features the 10 tracks from the original album release plus 10 bonus tracks.

Edited May 23, 201312 yr by AlexRange