1970: Easter Sunday 29th March: Chart announced 24th March

Andy Williams climbs from 6 to 3 with Can't Help Falling In Love, and last weeks number one Lee Marvin Wand'rin' Star, which has a B side by Clint Eastwood, drops to 2, switching places with Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water.

1971: Easter Sunday 11th April: Chart announced 6th April

Clodagh Rodgers Eurovision Song Contest entry Jack In The Box moves from 6 to 4, but the top 3 remains static, with Lynn Anderson's Rose Garden at 3, Ray Stevens (who later topped the chart in 1974 with The Streak) Bridget The Midget at 2 and T Rex keeping the topspot with Hot Love.

1972: Easter Sunday 2nd April: Chart Announced 28th March

Gilbert O'Sullivan was Alone Again (Naturally) at 3, having climbed a place, and the New Seekers wanted to Beg, Steal and Borrow to get to the topspot, but had to be content staying at number 2, because last weeks number 1 also stayed put, Nilsson Without You (otherwise known these days as Ken Lee!).

1973: Easter Sunday 22nd April: Chart announced 17th April

Gilbert O'Sulivan's Get Down got down from last weeks number 1 to 3, and climbing from 5 to 2 was Gary Glitter's Hello! Hello! I'm Back Again. Climbing from 2 to 1 for easter was Dawn with Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree.

1974: Easter Sunday 14th April: Chart announced 9th April

Gary Glitter climbed 1 place to 3 with Remember Me This Way, whilst Paper Lace stayed at 2 with Billy Don't Be A Hero. The previous weeks 1 also stayed put, Terry Jacks, Seasons In The Sun.

1975: Easter Sunday 30th March: Chart announced 25th March

The Moments and Whatnauts climb from 9 to 3 with Girls, and the Guys and Dolls climb 4 to 2 with There's A Lot Of Loving, but neither could dislodge the phenomenon that were the Bay City Rollers and Bye Bye Baby.

1976: Easter Sunday 18th April: Chart announced 13th April

John Miles stayed put at 3 with Music and Abba's Fernando climbed from 4 to 2, whilst the UK's Eurovision winner that year, the Brotherhood Of Man and Save Your Kisses For Me, stayed at number 1.

1977: Easter Sunday 10th April: Chart announced 5th April

Rock revivalists Showaddywaddy climbed one place to 3 with When, and David Soul stayed put at 2 with Going In With My Eyes Open. Also staying put was the number 1, Abba's Knowing Me, Knowing You.

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1978: Easter Sunday 26th March: Chart announced 21st March

Brian and Michael's musical tribute to J.S.Lowry, Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs, flys up from 10 to 3, whilst the top 2 stay put, Blondie's Denis at 2 and at number 1 Kate Bush Wuthering Heights.

1979: Easter Sunday 15th April: Chart announced 10th April

The top 3 were all climbers for easter 1979. Racey shot up from 11 to 3 with Some Girls, whilst the Squeeze went from 6 to 2 with Cool For Cats. Climbing from 3 to the topspot was Art Garfunkel's Bright Eyes.

1980: Easter Sunday April 6th: Chart announced April 1st

The Detroit Spinners climbed from 5 to 3 with a medley of Working My Way Back To You and Forgive Me Girl, and dance outfit Liquid Gold climbed from 4 to 2 with Dance Yourself Dizzy. Staying at number one were The Jam with a double A side, Going Underground and Dreams Of Children.

1981: Easter Sunday 19th April: Chart announced 14th April

Stevie Wonder stayed put at 3 with Lately, and the top 2 switched places. Shakin Stevens' This Ole House dropped to 2, and as a result of winning Eurovision on 4th April, the Saturday night immediately prior to the sales week used for this easter chart, Bucks Fizz reached the summit with the skirt ripping Making Your Mind Up.

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1982: Easter Sunday 11th April: Chart announced 6th April

Imagination drop one place to 3 with Just An Illusion, and Bucks Fizz climb from 5 to 2 with My Camera Never Lies, on route to the topspot the following. Staying put at number one were the Goombay Dance Band with Seven Tears.

1983: Easter Sunday 3rd April: Chart announced 29th March

Bonnie Tyler dropped from 2 to 3 with Total Eclipse Of The Heart, whilst David Bowie climbed from 5 to 2 with Let's Dance. Claiming a second week at the topspot, having managed the then still rare feat of going straight in at 1 the previous week, was Duran Duran Is There Something I Know?

And now a self-indulgent celebration of finally making it to the halfway point of this thread

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1984: Easter Sunday 22nd April: Chart announced 17th April

There were two big climbers just outside the top3, Queen climbed an impressive 13 places to number 5 with I Want To Break Free, and Phil Collins climbed from 10 to 4 with Against All Odds. Inside the top3 not much changed, the previous weeks' 2 and 3 merely switched places, with Shakin' Stevens A Love Worth Waiting For was now at 3 and The Thompson Twins You Take Me Up was taken up to 2. Staying put at number 1, and in the video famously asking a blind girl "Is it me you're looking for?", was Lionel Richie with Hello.

1985: Easter Sunday 7th April: Chart announced 2nd April

Staying put at 3 in easter week this year was, appropriately enough, a song about the central figure in the easter story, Pie Jesu by Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston. The top 2 stayed put, Alison Moyet's That Ole Devil Called Love at 2 and at 1 Philip Bailey and Phil Collins' Easy Lover.

1986: Easter Sunday 30th March: Chart announced 25th March

Sam Cooke's Wonderful World rockets 25 places to number 5 and page three girl of the year 1984,5 and 6, Samantha Fox, sends her debut single Touch Me (I Want Your Body) flying up from 22 to 4. The previous weeks' 1 and 2 drop one place each, with David Bowie's Absolute Beginners at 3 and Diana Ross' Chain Reaction at 2. Climbing from 4 to number one in only it's second chart week was the first Comic Relief single, a new version of Cliff Richard's Living Doll also featuring Hank B. Marvin and the 4 main cast members of the BBC sitcom The Young Ones, Christopher Ryan, Nigel Planer, Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall. Assuming the Guiness choice of charts is used (NME til 1960, RR from 60-69 and the official one thereafter) then this is Cliff's third easter number one, a record not matched by any other act or artist.

1987: Easter Sunday 19th April: Chart announced

Club Noveau's Lean On Me climbed from 6 to 3 and Madonna climbed from 3 to 2 en route to the topspot the following week. Staying put at number one for a third and final week was a new version of the Beatles classic Let It Be, which had been recorded to raise money for the victims of the Zeebrugge disaster on 6th March. The disaster occurred when employees of the Townsend Thoresen roll-on-roll-off ferry failed to ensure the doors to the car deck were closed prior to setting sail out of Zeebrugge port. Within minutes the ferry had sunk resulting in the deaths, many through hypothermia, of 193 people. The video featured the original 1970 Paul McCartney vocals and the talents of many other musicians of the day (if you're of a certain age try identifying them all in the video) both big stars and the down right obscure, and some other fairly random celebs, quite what Simon Bates, Anne Diamond, Gloria Hunniford or Ruth Madoc were able to contribute I don't know, but contribute they did.

NB: From late in 1987 improvements in the technology used to collect record sales data meant that the charts were now being announced on the Sunday immediately after the sales week had ended on Saturday, between 1969 and 1987 it hadn't been possible to announce the new charts until Tuesday lunchtime (or Wednesday if the week had a bank holiday Monday in it), with Radio1 playing it in full the following Sunday. From this point on then I assume that all the easter chart's were announced and played in full on radio 1 on the Easter Sunday itself and therefore I don't list an announcement date from this point on.

1988: Easter Sunday 3rd April

iAswad dropped from the previous week's topspot to number 3 with Don't Turn Around, and boyband Bros stayed put at 2 with Drop The Boy. Climbing to the topspot easter were the same act who had been xmas number one a few months previously with Always On My Mind, and had now therefore achived a sort of 'holy double', The Pet Shop Boys with Heart.