Posted January 16, 201411 yr 4th JAN 1984 A new year and my parents were selling the house I was born in, my mother was born in, my brother was born in (Cliff Street Mansfield) which meant I had to get a flat, stay in declining Mansfield just as the pits were on strike and put up with a dead-end factory job, or else jack it in and move South to Poole and join my parents (they were running a NAAFI) and look for a new job, leave my relatives and friends behind. After 4 years of disappointment, 2 years on the dole, 2 in a factory, and no chance of my degree ever looking remotely useful for anything in Mansfield, I took a chance and opted for Dorset. For now though, it was a wintry hello to the New Year, video-recording classic oldies TV from Channel 4 onto Betamax (oops!), alternative comedy (Comic Strip and Whoops Apocalypse) and not much happening in the charts, save a high new entry from Police (their last-ever single as it happened), newcomer Cyndi Lauper and her fab quirky new toon, and HiNRG camp dance from Be-skirted ample Divine, and a bit of climbing for Lionel Richie and Icicle Works. 1 ( 1 ) MY OH MY Slade 2 ( 2 ) I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS Greg Lake 3 ( 3 ) VICTIMS Culture Club 4 ( 4 ) WHAT IS LOVE Howard Jones 5 ( 5 ) MARGUERITA TIME Status Quo 6 ( 6 ) PIPES OF PEACE Paul McCartney 7 ( 10 ) THRILLER Michael Jackson 8 ( 8 ) HOLD ME NOW The Thompson Twins 9 ( NEW ) KING OF PAIN The Police 10 ( 14 ) READ 'EM AND WEEP Barry Manilow pP8374qSmew 11 ( 9 ) LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Paul Young 12 ( 12 ) 2000 MILES The Pretenders 13 ( 7 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 14 ( 20 ) COLD AS CHRISTMAS Elton John 15 ( 17 ) TELL HER ABOUT IT Billy Joel 16 ( 13 ) MANY RIVERS TO CROSS UB40 17 ( 11 ) PLEASE DON'T FALL IN LOVE Cliff Richard 18 ( NEW ) GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Cyndi Lauper 19 ( 22 ) I CAN HELP Elvis Presley 20 ( 15 ) THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC Abba PIb6AZdTr-A 21 ( 16 ) LET'S STAY TOGETHER Tina Turner 22 ( 28 ) DUCK FOR THE OYSTER Malcolm McLaren 23 ( 19 ) MOVE OVER DARLING Tracey Ullman 24 ( 21 ) HEART AND SOUL Huey Lewis & The News 25 ( 27 ) TIME (aka ARRIVAL) Frida and B.A. Robertson 26 ( 18 ) ISLANDS IN THE STREAM Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton 27 ( 32 ) STRAIGHT AHEAD Kool And The Gang 28 ( 26 ) CRY JUST A LITTLE BIT Shakin' Stevens 29 ( 24 ) CALLING YOUR NAME Marilyn 30 ( 37 ) INSIDE LOVE George Benson 31 ( 31 ) UPTOWN GIRL Billy Joel 32 ( 29 ) CHRISTMAS SPECTRE The Jingle Belles 33 ( 25 ) ONLY YOU The Flying Pickets 34 ( 38 ) WHERE IS MY MAN Eartha Kitt 35 ( 49 ) RUNNING WITH THE NIGHT Lionel Richie 36 ( 36 ) THIS CHARMING MAN The Smiths 37 ( 39 ) THEME FROM TERRAHAWKS Terrahawks 38 ( 35 ) THE LOVE CATS The Cure 39 ( 40 ) THE WAY YOU ARE Tears For Fears 40 ( 23 ) TWIST OF FATE Olivia Newton-John lY3CBCyK49s 41 ( 30 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 42 ( 43 ) OWNER OF A LONELY HEART Yes 43 ( 74 ) LOVE IS A WONDERFUL COLOUR The Icicle Works 44 ( 33 ) I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND The Beatles 45 ( 58 ) SWEET SURRENDER Rod Stewart 46 ( 52 ) BILLIE JEAN Michael Jackson 47 ( 42 ) SAY SAY SAY Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson 48 ( 45 ) THEY DON'T KNOW Tracey Ullman 49 ( 61 ) RAT RAPPING Roland Rat 50 ( 34 ) ON A SUNDAY Nick Heyward 51 ( 41 ) THE RULES OF THE GAME Bucks Fizz 52 ( 55 ) UNION OF THE SNAKE Duran Duran 53 ( 53 ) LET'S DANCE David Bowie 54 ( 56 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 55 ( 48 ) KARMA CHAMELEON Culture Club 56 ( 47 ) THE SUN AND THE RAIN Madness 57 ( 44 ) SYNCHRONICITY II The Police 58 ( 63 ) I AM WHAT I AM Gloria Gaynor 59 ( 54 ) DEAR PRUDENCE Siouxsie & The Banshees 60 ( 59 ) DEAR SANTA The Weather Girls 61 ( 46 ) SAY IT ISN'T SO Daryl Hall & John Oates 62 ( 50 ) LOVE WILL TEAR US APART Joy Division 63 ( 64 ) CLUB FANTASTIC MEGAMIX Wham! 64 ( 72 ) BIRD OF PARADISE Snowy White 65 ( 51 ) UNDERCOVER OF THE NIGHT The Rolling Stones 66 ( 60 ) OBLIVIOUS Aztec Camera 67 ( 65 ) WATERFRONT Simple Minds 68 ( 68 ) STEAMHAMMER SAM Interferon 69 ( 57 ) MAXINE Raf Ravenscroft 70 ( 69 ) MAMA Genesis 71 ( NEW ) SHAKE IT UP Divine 72 ( 62 ) THAT'S LOVE THAT IT IS Blancmange 73 ( 67 ) A SOLID BOND IN YOUR HEART The Style Council 74 ( 71 ) ONLY FOR LOVE Limahl 75 ( 66 ) TRUE LOVE Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly eaxTWj1ti84 TV 1 Cheers 2 Comic Strip Presents: Dirty Movie 3 REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER (film) 4 Whoops Apocolypse! 5 MASH 6 Soap 7 The Twilight Zone 8 Top Of The Pops 9 Bewitched 10 The Goodies 11 The Avengers 12 The Munsters 13 The Dick Van Dyke Show 14 Dallas 15 The Other Side Of The Tracks 16 Reamington Steele 17 A Kick Up The 80's 18 The Prisoner 19 Doctor Who (2 eps) 20 Grange Hill (2 eps) Edited January 16, 201411 yr by popchartfreak
January 19, 201411 yr Author 11th JAN 1984 Straight in at 2 from nowhere a catchy unexpected bonus from the late John Lennon. Tracks he had been working on before his shocking murder by an evil lunatic, as one of my huge heroes he manged to outdo Beatlemate Paul’s latest UK chart-topping single. Bad news for Paul, as in retrospect his single is the better one. Will either one get to Number one? Tune in… Massive leap at last for Relax, of course you know it even though it was banned by the BBC in the 80’s, one of the biggest-selling singles of all time in the UK. The Beeb do enjoy getting it wrong sometimes… Of course John, Paul and Frankie are all Scousers, or Liverpool-born as it’s more polite to say these days. My grandma lived in Liverpool until 1989, and I lived there for a year in 1966/67, so I knew it well. Malcolm McLaren gets another quirky Top 20 hit, Flying Pickets belatedly grab a number 18 place, and two great new entries from Pat Benatar (a year ahead of becoming a hit with her fabulous Battlefield track covered lower down by Smokie’s Chris Norman) and Eurythmics last single off the fab album Touch, the haunting Here Comes The Rain Again. Lower down, ABC‘s S.O.S.(not the Abba track, it‘s a great synthpop ballad) and Shaky & Bonnie (a Welsh 50’s retro-cover doubler) sneak in while the gentle Bird Of Paradise goes Top 40 for Snowy “Thin Lizzy” White. 1 ( 1 ) MY OH MY Slade 2 ( NEW ) NOBODY TOLD ME John Lennon 3 ( 2 ) I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS Greg Lake 4 ( 6 ) PIPES OF PEACE Paul McCartney 5 ( 9 ) KING OF PAIN The Police 6 ( 41 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 7 ( 5 ) MARGUERITA TIME Status Quo 8 ( 3 ) VICTIMS Culture Club 9 ( 7 ) THRILLER Michael Jackson 10 ( 4 ) WHAT IS LOVE Howard Jones 11 ( 12 ) 2000 MILES The Pretenders 12 ( 11 ) LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Paul Young 13 ( 18 ) GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Cyndi Lauper 14 ( 19 ) I CAN HELP Elvis Presley 15 ( 10 ) READ 'EM AND WEEP Barry Manilow 16 ( 8 ) HOLD ME NOW The Thompson Twins 17 ( 22 ) DUCK FOR THE OYSTER Malcolm McLaren 18 ( 33 ) ONLY YOU The Flying Pickets 19 ( 13 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 20 ( 15 ) TELL HER ABOUT IT Billy Joel 21 ( 17 ) PLEASE DON'T FALL IN LOVE Cliff Richard 22 ( 14 ) COLD AS CHRISTMAS Elton John 23 ( 16 ) MANY RIVERS TO CROSS UB40 24 ( 24 ) HEART AND SOUL Huey Lewis & The News 25 ( 51 ) THE RULES OF THE GAME Bucks Fizz 26 ( 20 ) THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC Abba 27 ( 27 ) STRAIGHT AHEAD Kool And The Gang 28 ( 21 ) LET'S STAY TOGETHER Tina Turner 29 ( 35 ) RUNNING WITH THE NIGHT Lionel Richie 30 ( 26 ) ISLANDS IN THE STREAM Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton CjY_uSSncQw 31 ( 25 ) TIME (aka ARRIVAL) Frida and B.A. Robertson 32 ( 28 ) CRY JUST A LITTLE BIT Shakin' Stevens 33 ( 49 ) RAT RAPPING Roland Rat 34 ( 23 ) MOVE OVER DARLING Tracey Ullman 35 ( 57 ) I AM WHAT I AM Gloria Gaynor 36 ( 31 ) UPTOWN GIRL Billy Joel 37 ( NEW ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Pat Benatar 38 ( 45 ) SWEET SURRENDER Rod Stewart 39 ( NEW ) HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN Eurythmics 40 ( 64 ) BIRD OF PARADISE Snowy White TzFnYcIqj6I 41 ( 32 ) CHRISTMAS SPECTRE The Jingle Belles 42 ( 30 ) INSIDE LOVE George Benson 43 ( 43 ) LOVE IS A WONDERFUL COLOUR The Icicle Works 44 ( RE ) BLUE MONDAY New Order 45 ( 29 ) CALLING YOUR NAME Marilyn 46 ( 46 ) BILLIE JEAN Michael Jackson 47 ( 36 ) THIS CHARMING MAN The Smiths 48 ( 38 ) THE LOVE CATS The Cure 49 ( 39 ) THE WAY YOU ARE Tears For Fears 50 ( 34 ) WHERE IS MY MAN Eartha Kitt 51 ( 52 ) LET'S DANCE David Bowie 52 ( 53 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 53 ( 48 ) THEY DON'T KNOW Tracey Ullman 54 ( 47 ) SAY SAY SAY Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson 55 ( NEW ) SIXTEEN Musical Youth 56 ( 44 ) I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND The Beatles 57 ( 37 ) THEME FROM TERRAHAWKS Terrahawks 58 ( 54 ) KARMA CHAMELEON Culture Club 59 ( NEW ) A ROCKIN' GOOD WAY Shaky and Bonnie (Stevens & Tyler) 60 ( 40 ) TWIST OF FATE Olivia Newton-John N3lFoWEKk9U 61 ( NEW ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Chris Norman 62 ( 42 ) OWNER OF A LONELY HEART Yes 63 ( 51 ) UNION OF THE SNAKE Duran Duran 64 ( 63 ) CLUB FANTASTIC MEGAMIX Wham! 65 ( 58 ) DEAR PRUDENCE Siouxsie & The Banshees 66 ( 74 ) ONLY FOR LOVE Limahl 67 ( NEW ) S.O.S. ABC 68 ( 50 ) ON A SUNDAY Nick Heyward 69 ( 55 ) THE SUN AND THE RAIN Madness 70 ( 56 ) SYNCHRONICITY II The Police v-DJOF8W8ZA 71 ( NEW ) BREAK MY STRIDE Matthew Wilder 72 ( 60 ) SAY IT ISN'T SO Daryl Hall & John Oates 73 ( 70 ) MAMA Genesis 74 ( 59 ) DEAR SANTA The Weather Girls 75 ( RE ) ALL NIGHT LONG (ALL NIGHT) Lionel Richie TV 1 Cheers 2 Comic Strip Presents: Susie 3 MASH 4 The Twilight Zone 5 Bewitched 6 Doctor Who (2 eps) 7 Whoops Apocalypse 8 The Phil Silvers Show (Bilko) 9 Top Of The Pops 10 Grange Hill (2 eps) 11 Barney Miller 12 Soap 13 The Living Planet 14 The Avengers 15 The Prisoner Edited January 19, 201411 yr by popchartfreak
January 19, 201411 yr Author 18th JAN 1984 John beats Paul 1 and 2, and both beat Frankie at 3 for an all-Scouse Top 3. Eurythmics rocket up to 4 to keep the Top 10 run going, veteran 50’s diva Eartha “Catwoman” Kitt camps it up to 7, Pat Benatar rocks up to 17, with Shaky & Bonnie both rockin’ up a good 1983 to 18. At this point I’ll ignore Roland Rat, I have NO idea what that’s doing in the Top 20! A moment of madness! Great wistful synthpop new entries from Fiction Factory and China Crisis, a bit of Scot-rock from Big Country, 40’s retro from Kid Creole (as Elbow Bones & The Racketeers) and his gorgeous A Night In New York, and some dirge from a TV show at 75. Better TV was Comic Strip’s A Fistful Of Traveller’s Cheques, some great Spaghetti Western one-liners in it. “John Paul George and Gringo!” “I think I’m getting a suntan” Trust me, it’s funny in context.. 9H2HlD7at00 1 ( 2 ) NOBODY TOLD ME John Lennon 2 ( 4 ) PIPES OF PEACE Paul McCartney 3 ( 6 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 4 ( 39 ) HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN Eurythmics 5 ( 5 ) KING OF PAIN The Police 6 ( 1 ) MY OH MY Slade 7 ( 50 ) WHERE IS MY MAN Eartha Kitt 8 ( 3 ) I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS Greg Lake 9 ( 9 ) THRILLER Michael Jackson 10 ( 10 ) WHAT IS LOVE Howard Jones 11 ( 13 ) GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Cyndi Lauper 12 ( 7 ) MARGUERITA TIME Status Quo 13 ( 29 ) RUNNING WITH THE NIGHT Lionel Richie 14 ( 14 ) I CAN HELP Elvis Presley 15 ( 8 ) VICTIMS Culture Club 16 ( 12 ) LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Paul Young 17 ( 37 ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Pat Benatar 18 ( 59 ) A ROCKIN' GOOD WAY Shaky and Bonnie (Stevens & Tyler) 19 ( 33 ) RAT RAPPING Roland Rat 20 ( 27 ) STRAIGHT AHEAD Kool And The Gang lYXZQ19KNkc 21 ( 15 ) READ 'EM AND WEEP Barry Manilow 22 ( 16 ) HOLD ME NOW The Thompson Twins 23 ( 35 ) I AM WHAT I AM Gloria Gaynor 24 ( NEW ) (FEELS LIKE) HEAVEN Fiction Factory 25 ( 25 ) THE RULES OF THE GAME Bucks Fizz 26 ( 22 ) CRYSTAL/ COLD AS CHRISTMAS Elton John 27 ( 20 ) TELL HER ABOUT IT Billy Joel 28 ( NEW ) WISHFUL THINKING China Crisis 29 ( 11 ) 2000 MILES The Pretenders 30 ( 17 ) DUCK FOR THE OYSTER Malcolm McLaren oj20LKdg8-8 31 ( 26 ) THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC Abba 32 ( 71 ) BREAK MY STRIDE Matthew Wilder 33 ( 40 ) BIRD OF PARADISE Snowy White 34 ( 30 ) ISLANDS IN THE STREAM Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton 35 ( 28 ) LET'S STAY TOGETHER Tina Turner 36 ( 19 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 37 ( 44 ) BLUE MONDAY New Order 38 ( 38 ) SWEET SURRENDER Rod Stewart 39 ( 24 ) HEART AND SOUL Huey Lewis & The News 40 ( 43 ) LOVE IS A WONDERFUL COLOUR The Icicle Works 41 ( 23 ) MANY RIVERS TO CROSS UB40 42 ( 18 ) ONLY YOU The Flying Pickets 43 ( 36 ) UPTOWN GIRL Billy Joel 44 ( 21 ) PLEASE DON'T FALL IN LOVE Cliff Richard 45 ( 32 ) CRY JUST A LITTLE BIT Shakin' Stevens 46 ( 46 ) BILLIE JEAN Michael Jackson 47 ( 67 ) S.O.S. ABC 48 ( 34 ) MOVE OVER DARLING Tracey Ullman 49 ( RE ) NEW SONG Howard Jones 50 ( 55 ) SIXTEEN Musical Youth 51 ( 42 ) INSIDE LOVE George Benson 52 ( 51 ) LET'S DANCE David Bowie 53 ( 52 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 54 ( 47 ) THIS CHARMING MAN The Smiths 55 ( 53 ) THEY DON'T KNOW Tracey Ullman 56 ( 54 ) SAY SAY SAY Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson 57 ( 48 ) THE LOVE CATS The Cure 58 ( 61 ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Chris Norman 59 ( 45 ) CALLING YOUR NAME Marilyn 60 ( 31 ) TIME (aka ARRIVAL) Frida and B.A. Robertson 61 ( 49 ) THE WAY YOU ARE Tears For Fears 62 ( NEW ) WONDERLAND Big Country 63 ( 63 ) UNION OF THE SNAKE Duran Duran 64 ( 58 ) KARMA CHAMELEON Culture Club 65 ( 56 ) I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND The Beatles 66 ( NEW ) A NIGHT IN NEW YORK Elbow Bones and The Racketeers 67 ( 60 ) TWIST OF FATE Olivia Newton-John 68 ( 62 ) OWNER OF A LONELY HEART Yes 69 ( 65 ) DEAR PRUDENCE Siouxsie & The Banshees 70 ( 70 ) SYNCHRONICITY II The Police xpgQRnTulqY 71 ( NEW ) HUMAN TOUCH Rick Springfield 72 ( NEW ) WHERE WERE YOU HIDING WHEN THE STORM BROKE The Alarm 73 ( NEW ) HYPERACTIVE Thomas Dolby 74 ( 57 ) THEME FROM TERRAHAWKS Terrahawks 75 ( NEW ) THAT'S LIVING ALRIGHT Joe Fagin TV 1 Comic Strip Presents: A Fistful Of Traveller's Cheques 2 Cheers 3 Hill Street Blues 4 The Young Ones: Bomb 5 Whoops Apocalypse 6 Twilight Zone 7 MASH 8 Doctor Who (2 eps) 9 Bewitched 10 Avengers 11 Soap 12 Grange Hill ( 2 eps) 13 Top Of The Pops 14 The Phil Silvers Show (Bilko) 15 The Other Side Of The Tracks 16 The Living Planet 17 Chocky 18 A Kick Up The 80's 19 Hollywood Legends 20 The World At War Edited January 19, 201411 yr by popchartfreak
January 19, 201411 yr Author 25th JAN 1984 Relax gets it’s first week at the top. I had to buy it to get to hear it, but it was such a classic pop record, Trevor Horn’s epic production had notched pop music up and set a new standard. Being a bit naughty, and dragging gay culture into the mainstream didn’t hurt either. This wasn’t a pretty media-friendly version of being gay, this was down n dirty and it was making a point that hadn’t been made before. Flash on 30 years and pop music is much about graphic sex acts and swearwords, but mostly it’s about making cash because sex sells (rather than to be shocking or outrageous). When something becomes the norm it becomes a cliché.. Queen were back with a bang! Not the Queen ewe were used to, this was all synth and Fritz Lang, and was terrific. Freddie had hit a creative block as far as singles were concerned for most of the early 80’s, but happily his bandmates took up the slack and came up with some corkers. Into the Top 40 from nowhere a white dance act strutting her stuff on The Tube, brother dancing behind her and dressed in her own style. She was called Madonna and looked like a one-hit-wonder with a great catchy pop single. I wonder what happened to her? Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin follow-up It’s My Party into the Top 40 3 years on with a bonafide flop, Matthew Wilder inexplicably breaks into my Top 5 (actually I’d got the single in a bargain bin and it seemed better than it was), China Crisis glide into the Top 10, and Cyndi bops her way in too, at last, whiler new at the lower end a massive classic from Echo & The Bunny men (later used to brilliant effect in movie Donnie Darko) and future 1985 hit (and much-sampled) Yah Mo Be There. RTishnW8nyc 1 ( 3 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 2 ( 1 ) NOBODY TOLD ME John Lennon 3 ( 2 ) PIPES OF PEACE Paul McCartney 4 ( 4 ) HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN Eurythmics 5 ( 32 ) BREAK MY STRIDE Matthew Wilder 6 ( 5 ) KING OF PAIN The Police 7 ( 7 ) WHERE IS MY MAN Eartha Kitt 8 ( NEW ) RADIO GA GA Queen 9 ( 28 ) WISHFUL THINKING China Crisis 10 ( 11 ) GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Cyndi Lauper 11 ( 13 ) RUNNING WITH THE NIGHT Lionel Richie 12 ( 6 ) MY OH MY Slade 13 ( 24 ) (FEELS LIKE) HEAVEN Fiction Factory 14 ( 9 ) THRILLER Michael Jackson 15 ( 10 ) WHAT IS LOVE Howard Jones 16 ( 18 ) A ROCKIN' GOOD WAY Shaky and Bonnie (Stevens & Tyler) 17 ( 17 ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Pat Benatar 18 ( 12 ) MARGUERITA TIME Status Quo 19 ( 15 ) VICTIMS Culture Club 20 ( 8 ) I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS Greg Lake 0X7RyGBq2E8 21 ( 16 ) LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Paul Young 22 ( 23 ) I AM WHAT I AM Gloria Gaynor 23 ( 62 ) WONDERLAND Big Country 24 ( 21 ) READ 'EM AND WEEP Barry Manilow 25 ( 40 ) LOVE IS A WONDERFUL COLOUR The Icicle Works 26 ( 26 ) CRYSTAL/ COLD AS CHRISTMAS Elton John 27 ( NEW ) HOLIDAY Madonna 28 ( NEW ) LEIPZIG Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin 29 ( 50 ) SIXTEEN Musical Youth 30 ( 19 ) RAT RAPPING Roland Rat 31 ( 14 ) I CAN HELP Elvis Presley 32 ( 22 ) HOLD ME NOW The Thompson Twins 33 ( 33 ) BIRD OF PARADISE Snowy White 34 ( 20 ) STRAIGHT AHEAD Kool And The Gang 35 ( 27 ) TELL HER ABOUT IT Billy Joel 36 ( 47 ) S.O.S. ABC 37 ( 31 ) THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC Abba 38 ( 25 ) THE RULES OF THE GAME Bucks Fizz 39 ( 71 ) HUMAN TOUCH Rick Springfield 40 ( 29 ) 2000 MILES The Pretenders 41 ( 34 ) ISLANDS IN THE STREAM Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton 42 ( 49 ) NEW SONG Howard Jones 43 ( 39 ) HEART AND SOUL Huey Lewis & The News 44 ( 66 ) A NIGHT IN NEW YORK Elbow Bones and The Racketeers 45 ( 36 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 46 ( 46 ) BILLIE JEAN Michael Jackson 47 ( 35 ) LET'S STAY TOGETHER Tina Turner 48 ( 37 ) BLUE MONDAY New Order 49 ( 54 ) THIS CHARMING MAN The Smiths 50 ( 30 ) DUCK FOR THE OYSTER Malcolm McLaren 51 ( 72 ) WHERE WERE YOU HIDING WHEN THE STORM BROKE The Alarm 52 ( 45 ) CRY JUST A LITTLE BIT Shakin' Stevens 53 ( 52 ) LET'S DANCE David Bowie 54 ( 53 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 55 ( 43 ) UPTOWN GIRL Billy Joel 56 ( 41 ) MANY RIVERS TO CROSS UB40 57 ( 73 ) HYPERACTIVE Thomas Dolby 58 ( 38 ) SWEET SURRENDER Rod Stewart 59 ( 56 ) SAY SAY SAY Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson 60 ( 55 ) THEY DON'T KNOW Tracey Ullman 61 ( 44 ) PLEASE DON'T FALL IN LOVE Cliff Richard 62 ( NEW ) THE COLOUR FIELD The Colour Field 63 ( NEW ) GIVE ME MORE TIME Whitesnake 64 ( 48 ) MOVE OVER DARLING Tracey Ullman 65 ( NEW ) CRIME OF PASSION Mike Oldfield 66 ( 51 ) INSIDE LOVE George Benson 67 ( 57 ) THE LOVE CATS The Cure 68 ( 59 ) CALLING YOUR NAME Marilyn 69 ( 42 ) ONLY YOU The Flying Pickets 70 ( 64 ) KARMA CHAMELEON Culture Club rBo2Kn8iBxA 71 ( NEW ) YAH MO BE THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 72 ( 63 ) UNION OF THE SNAKE Duran Duran 73 ( 69 ) DEAR PRUDENCE Siouxsie & The Banshees 74 ( NEW ) THE KILLING MOON Echo And The Bunnymen 75 ( NEW ) SPICE OF LIFE Manhattan Transfer aX1PwkgwsG0 TV 1 Comic Strip Presents: Gino 2 Cheers 3 Hill Street Blues 4 Mary Tyler Moore Show 5 Twilight Zone 6 Phil Silvers Show 7 MASH 8 Top Of The Pops 9 Whoops Apocalypse 10 Soap 11 Bewitched 12 Chocky 13 Grange Hill (2) 14 Tucker's Luck 15 Rockford Files 16 Other Side Of The Tracks 17 Avengers 18 Munsters 19 Doctor Who (2) 20 The Living Planet Edited January 19, 201411 yr by popchartfreak
January 20, 201411 yr Love the 1984 charts the new era of acts were really hitting their peak leaving the 70s long behind. I know its your personal charts but why did Greg Lake do so well in xmas 83? Edited January 20, 201411 yr by steve201
January 21, 201411 yr Author Love the 1984 charts the new era of acts were really hitting their peak leaving the 70s long behind. I know its your personal charts but why did Greg Lake do so well in xmas 83? Hi Steve, thanks for the comment! It was a great year for music. Greg Lake sneaked into the bottom of the UK charts in 82 and 83 xmas so I just used that as an excuse to rechart my 2nd-fave all-time xmas song (after Happy Xmas War Is Over). It's odd that in those days it was one of the regular xmas songs to chart but it's been overtaken by more jolly xmas classics these days, and the more cynical xmas records don't get radio play. I was amazed that few on Buzzjack know it! cheers john B-)
January 21, 201411 yr Ah right was this just from copies available in record stores at the time? I know as you said Wizzard & Slade reguarly made appearences esp when Slade regained 'coolness' to chart in the early 1980s. Im like yourself I believe in Father Christmas is my all time favourite xmas song - reminds me of xmas eve or something with the carol style melody. Beautiful stuff. Im glad to say radio 1 had it on their xmas music playlist this yr and gave it a few spins :)
January 21, 201411 yr Author Ah right was this just from copies available in record stores at the time? I know as you said Wizzard & Slade reguarly made appearences esp when Slade regained 'coolness' to chart in the early 1980s. Im like yourself I believe in Father Christmas is my all time favourite xmas song - reminds me of xmas eve or something with the carol style melody. Beautiful stuff. Im glad to say radio 1 had it on their xmas music playlist this yr and gave it a few spins :) Yes I think it was just re-entries rather than re-issues, but that meant only the specialist music stores stocked it, HMV, Our Price, Virgin, Revolver and other local stores, Smiths, Boots, Woolies, Martins etc tended to just do the chart stuff. RIP half of them....! Great to hear R1 playlisted Greg, warms the cockles of me heart it do :lol: cheers!
February 12, 201411 yr Author 31st JAN 1984 2nd Week at 1 for Frankie, dance act Madonna climbs quickly to 11, leapfrogging rock chick Pat’s Battlefield. I don’t think I’m giving too much away when I say both records return in 1985 and become even bigger hits (in the UK charts and in mine). Meanwhile Icicle Works finally break into the Top 20, and Lionel Ritchie into the 10, and highest new entry is The Pretenders, a single that flopped in the UK but scored with me - I especially loved the whoo-oohs whooping 60’s stylee from something in my childhood that had a haunting effect on me (TV Theme I think) which I’m still struggling to identify! Thomas Dolby gets another Top 40 hit, Manhattan Transfer get their last, and Hot Chocolate also get their last hit (barring remixes and re-entries) underlining that things were coming to an end in my life too, as I prepared to leave the friendlier north for the indifferent south. Happily The Smiths 2nd hit nestles by the still-strong 1st, Shannon pops in with an important dance stomper (influencing not just Pet Shop Boys but dance music in general), a bit of indie from This Mortal Coil (that’s Indie 80’s style, not an alternative name for “rock or synth-based music” a la 2014), bit of Jazz from Matt Bianco, a solo Bee Gee, a solo Carol Kenyon (she of the stunning vocals in Heaven 17’s Temptation), and Simple Minds firmly moving from Indie to Rock with the fab Speed Your Love To Me. 1 ( 1 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 2 ( 2 ) NOBODY TOLD ME John Lennon 3 ( 4 ) HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN Eurythmics 4 ( 8 ) RADIO GA GA Queen 5 ( 5 ) BREAK MY STRIDE Matthew Wilder 6 ( 9 ) WISHFUL THINKING China Crisis 7 ( 3 ) PIPES OF PEACE Paul McCartney 8 ( 13 ) (FEELS LIKE) HEAVEN Fiction Factory 9 ( 11 ) RUNNING WITH THE NIGHT Lionel Richie 10 ( 10 ) GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Cyndi Lauper 11 ( 27 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 12 ( 17 ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Pat Benatar 13 ( 7 ) WHERE IS MY MAN Eartha Kitt 14 ( 25 ) LOVE IS A WONDERFUL COLOUR The Icicle Works 15 ( 6 ) KING OF PAIN The Police 16 ( 23 ) WONDERLAND Big Country 17 ( 14 ) THRILLER Michael Jackson 18 ( 12 ) MY OH MY Slade 19 ( 15 ) WHAT IS LOVE Howard Jones 20 ( 22 ) I AM WHAT I AM Gloria Gaynor 21 ( 36 ) S.O.S. ABC 22 ( 19 ) VICTIMS Culture Club 23 ( 18 ) MARGUERITA TIME Status Quo 24 ( 24 ) READ 'EM AND WEEP Barry Manilow 25 ( 28 ) LEIPZIG Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin 26 ( 16 ) A ROCKIN' GOOD WAY Shaky and Bonnie (Stevens & Tyler) 27 ( 39 ) HUMAN TOUCH Rick Springfield 28 ( 29 ) SIXTEEN Musical Youth 29 ( 21 ) LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Paul Young 30 ( 20 ) I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS Greg Lake 31 ( 26 ) CRYSTAL/ COLD AS CHRISTMAS Elton John 32 ( 44 ) A NIGHT IN NEW YORK Elbow Bones and The Racketeers 33 ( 74 ) THE KILLING MOON Echo And The Bunnymen 34 ( NEW ) MIDDLE OF THE ROAD The Pretenders 35 ( 35 ) TELL HER ABOUT IT Billy Joel 36 ( 57 ) HYPERACTIVE Thomas Dolby 37 ( 75 ) SPICE OF LIFE Manhattan Transfer 38 ( 38 ) THE RULES OF THE GAME Bucks Fizz 39 ( 37 ) THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC Abba 40 ( 51 ) WHERE WERE YOU HIDING WHEN THE STORM BROKE The Alarm hONtmFgh3IQ 41 ( 46 ) BILLIE JEAN Michael Jackson 42 ( 30 ) RAT RAPPING Roland Rat 43 ( 40 ) 2000 MILES The Pretenders 44 ( 31 ) I CAN HELP Elvis Presley 45 ( 34 ) STRAIGHT AHEAD Kool And The Gang 46 ( 32 ) HOLD ME NOW The Thompson Twins 47 ( NEW ) THE POLITICS OF DANCING Re-Flex 48 ( NEW ) JOANNA Kool And The Gang 49 ( 45 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 50 ( NEW ) I GAVE YOU MY HEART (DIDN'T I) Hot Chocolate 51 ( 43 ) HEART AND SOUL Huey Lewis & The News 52 ( 65 ) CRIME OF PASSION Mike Oldfield 53 ( 53 ) LET'S DANCE David Bowie 54 ( 54 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 55 ( 49 ) THIS CHARMING MAN The Smiths 56 ( NEW ) WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE The Smiths 57 ( 41 ) ISLANDS IN THE STREAM Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton 58 ( 33 ) BIRD OF PARADISE Snowy White 59 ( 42 ) NEW SONG Howard Jones 60 ( NEW ) DOCTOR DOCTOR Thompson Twins AZa8jHi1nkk 61 ( 48 ) BLUE MONDAY New Order 62 ( 62 ) THE COLOUR FIELD The Colour Field 63 ( NEW ) LET THE MUSIC PLAY Shannon 64 ( 60 ) THEY DON'T KNOW Tracey Ullman 65 ( 47 ) LET'S STAY TOGETHER Tina Turner 66 ( 71 ) YAH MO BE THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 67 ( 55 ) UPTOWN GIRL Billy Joel 68 ( 68 ) CALLING YOUR NAME Marilyn 69 ( 52 ) CRY JUST A LITTLE BIT Shakin' Stevens 70 ( NEW ) GET OUT OF YOUR LAZY BED Matt Bianco _-0sUuGufmw 71 ( NEW ) SONG TO THE SIREN This Mortal Coil 72 ( 59 ) SAY SAY SAY Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson 73 ( NEW ) ANOTHER LONELY NIGHT IN NEW YORK Robin Gibb 74 ( NEW ) SPEED YOUR LOVE TO ME Simple Minds 75 ( NEW ) WARRIOR WOMAN Carol Kenyon tqIr6WPfgTw Edited February 12, 201411 yr by popchartfreak
February 13, 201411 yr I love Thompson Twins, one of my fave 80's bands, but Hold Me Now was not one of their best. 1984 was a good year for music but radio spoils it as alot of those songs are overplayed on radio today and kill the songs completley for me. I m Thinking Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Radio Ga Ga etc
February 13, 201411 yr Author 7th Feb 1984 MY final Mansfield chart and the music scene goes electric with excitement, video in particular affecting my enjoyment of singles - they were getting creatively arty in their own right, and special effects were getting pretty sophisticated. Witness Queen: Brilliant video, brilliant Roger Taylor song and synth clappy sound, the sentiment is nonsense of course, pop music was fabulous. Queen’s first topper since 1981, and fifth since 1974. My charts, meanwhile go mad with movement, huge climbers, huge drops, and 13 new entries, almost all of which deserve a you tube link. Great stuff, and lookit that awesome Top 7! Madonna! The Killing Moon, brilliance as used in the fab Donnie Darko, from Echo & The Bunnymen, Relax (many times a hit and million seller). Elton’s single flips for Crystal as the main track now, shoulda been a hit and hits 8 here, ABC get a 5th Top 10, and Nik Kershaw gets highest new entry with the fab Wouldn’t It Be Good. Ultravox go rock, just like Simple Minds, and get an instant Top 20 hit (not always something they managed in synth-vibe), Hot Choc go Top 20, Duran enter at 28 with the New Moon, Shannon dances into the 40, just ahead of The Smiths, Slade rockin bagpipes at 38, and solo Robin Gibb 15 years after his first chart hit, and 29 years before his last. Time flies. New lower down? Excellent Rockwell (actually Berry “Motown” Gordy’s shirtless son and Michael Jackson) setting up a 21st Century sampled-hit; Nena’s worldwide German hit, for some reason in English Language in the UK; Van Halen’s well-known Jump, just before they lost the plot when David Lee Roth went solo; Madness’ subtle and gorgeous Michael Caine, one of their best records;; The one-hit wonders Swansway with a retro-groove Soul Train (fab); Stewart “Police” Copeland back almost-solo after 6 years, with Stan(ward) Ridgeway, who Camouflaged himself into the charts in 1986. TV? Like Pixar movies? Well, they use wonderful actors, especially comic actors like Ed Asner (“Up”) from Mary Tyler Moor Show, Billy Crystal (Monsters Inc) here in Soap, John Ratzenberger (every single Pixar film to date) here as Cliff in Cheers. I love US sitcoms, still do. Top of my list this week though, quite rightly back on top after 20 years of love from me, Doctor Who and some Daleks… t63_HRwdAgk 1 ( 4 ) RADIO GA GA Queen 2 ( 1 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 3 ( 33 ) THE KILLING MOON Echo And The Bunnymen 4 ( 3 ) HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN Eurythmics 5 ( 8 ) (FEELS LIKE) HEAVEN Fiction Factory 6 ( 6 ) WISHFUL THINKING China Crisis 7 ( 11 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 8 ( 31 ) CRYSTAL/ COLD AS CHRISTMAS Elton John 9 ( 2 ) NOBODY TOLD ME John Lennon 10 ( 21 ) S.O.S. ABC KoHNlyMH3CA 11 ( 7 ) PIPES OF PEACE Paul McCartney 12 ( 5 ) BREAK MY STRIDE Matthew Wilder 13 ( 16 ) WONDERLAND Big Country 14 ( NEW ) WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD Nik Kershaw 15 ( 10 ) GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Cyndi Lauper 16 ( 37 ) SPICE OF LIFE Manhattan Transfer 17 ( NEW ) ONE SMALL DAY Ultravox 18 ( 17 ) THRILLER Michael Jackson 19 ( 9 ) RUNNING WITH THE NIGHT Lionel Richie 20 ( 50 ) I GAVE YOU MY HEART (DIDN'T I) Hot Chocolate Yo6n75DxQS4 21 ( 12 ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Pat Benatar 22 ( 13 ) WHERE IS MY MAN Eartha Kitt 23 ( 15 ) KING OF PAIN The Police 24 ( 18 ) MY OH MY Slade 25 ( 27 ) HUMAN TOUCH Rick Springfield 26 ( 28 ) SIXTEEN Musical Youth 27 ( 19 ) WHAT IS LOVE Howard Jones 28 ( NEW ) NEW MOON ON MONDAY Duran Duran 29 ( 32 ) A NIGHT IN NEW YORK Elbow Bones and The Racketeers 30 ( 36 ) HYPERACTIVE Thomas Dolby m3a4OTh2Y8w 31 ( 22 ) VICTIMS Culture Club 32 ( 48 ) JOANNA Kool And The Gang 33 ( 14 ) LOVE IS A WONDERFUL COLOUR The Icicle Works 34 ( 34 ) MIDDLE OF THE ROAD The Pretenders 35 ( 63 ) LET THE MUSIC PLAY Shannon 36 ( 74 ) SPEED YOUR LOVE TO ME Simple Minds 37 ( 24 ) READ 'EM AND WEEP Barry Manilow 38 ( NEW ) RUN RUNAWAY Slade 39 ( 73 ) ANOTHER LONELY NIGHT IN NEW YORK Robin Gibb 40 ( 56 ) WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE The Smiths 41 ( 20 ) I AM WHAT I AM Gloria Gaynor 42 ( 70 ) GET OUT OF YOUR LAZY BED Matt Bianco 43 ( 23 ) MARGUERITA TIME Status Quo 44 ( 30 ) I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS Greg Lake 45 ( 39 ) THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC Abba 46 ( 41 ) BILLIE JEAN Michael Jackson 47 ( 47 ) THE POLITICS OF DANCING Re-Flex 48 ( 29 ) LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Paul Young 49 ( 60 ) DOCTOR DOCTOR Thompson Twins 50 ( 40 ) WHERE WERE YOU HIDING WHEN THE STORM BROKE The Alarm 51 ( NEW ) SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME Rockwell 52 ( 26 ) A ROCKIN' GOOD WAY Shaky and Bonnie (Stevens & Tyler) 53 ( NEW ) 99 RED BALLOONS Nena 54 ( 55 ) THIS CHARMING MAN The Smiths 55 ( 66 ) YAH MO BE THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 56 ( 54 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 57 ( 53 ) LET'S DANCE David Bowie 58 ( 25 ) LEIPZIG Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin 59 ( NEW ) CRY AND BE FREE Marilyn 60 ( 38 ) THE RULES OF THE GAME Bucks Fizz 14IRDDnEPR4 61 ( 35 ) TELL HER ABOUT IT Billy Joel 62 ( NEW ) AN INNOCENT MAN Billy Joel 63 ( 43 ) 2000 MILES The Pretenders 64 ( NEW ) JUMP Van Halen 65 ( 46 ) HOLD ME NOW The Thompson Twins 66 ( 49 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 67 ( 71 ) SONG TO THE SIREN This Mortal Coil 68 ( 64 ) THEY DON'T KNOW Tracey Ullman 69 ( NEW ) MICHAEL CAINE Madness 70 ( 42 ) RAT RAPPING Roland Rat j-5yn3v3N8A 71 ( 51 ) HEART AND SOUL Huey Lewis & The News 72 ( NEW ) DANCE HALL DAYS Wang Chung 73 ( 68 ) CALLING YOUR NAME Marilyn 74 ( NEW ) SOUL TRAIN Swans Way 75 ( NEW ) DON'T BOX ME IN Stewart Copeland and Stanard Ridgeway IhoXnSxIH0I TV 1 Doctor Who - Daleks! 2 MASH 3 Hill Street Blues 4 Cheers 5 Comic Strip Presents: Eddie Monsoon 6 Mary Tyler Moore Show 7 Soap 8 Whoops Apocalypse 9 Bewitched 10 The Rockford Files 11 Top Of The Pops 12 Chocky 13 Alas Smith And Jones 14 Grange Hill (2) 15 Life On Earth Edited February 13, 201411 yr by popchartfreak
February 13, 201411 yr Author I love Thompson Twins, one of my fave 80's bands, but Hold Me Now was not one of their best. 1984 was a good year for music but radio spoils it as alot of those songs are overplayed on radio today and kill the songs completley for me. I m Thinking Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Radio Ga Ga etc Hi Fiesta, Cyndi is a regular radio played track yes, Queen sometimes, I'd pick Its Raining Men as the track that seems to be everywhere these days, even back in the charts last week! The funniest Guilty Pleasure for it is Homer Simpson loving-it. Now that's funny :lol: cheers john
February 14, 201411 yr Author 14th Feb 1984 This was the week I waved goodbye to Mansfield, got in my Austin 1800 (dad’s old car) and drove down south to anew life, most precious records onboard, along with a fish tank full of goldfish (hey I kept tropical fish for 14 years and am proud of it!). The rest of the stuff went by lorry, mum and dad already in Poole, wouldn’t you know it, the car developed engine trouble but limped to the newly-built house and then gave up. I was upset when it went to the scrap yard, not just out of sentiment, I was also stuck on a new housing estate, no buses, no job, no friends and no transport. Suddenly I felt very cut off from my old life… Musically, lots of new entries, all of them obscure this week in contrast to last week’s influx. Queen reigned again, just keeping off The Killing Moon (damn!), and Madness really do leap up from 69 to 7! Madonna gets her first top 5 hit and one really, honestly, truly would not have put money on her becoming a phenomenon, never mind having 30 years of hits nearly! You never know, eh? Big Country get another Top 10 track, ditto Ultravox, and Kool & The Gang get one of their irregular Top 20 hits with the pleasant Joanna. Elsewhere Smiths at 22, Nena climbs high, Rockwell was being watched, Van Halen Jump-ed up, and Marillion punched their way to 40 and highest new entry. Poor old Judy, always loathed them actually (the Puppets, not Marillion). Cow-punk newcomers Yip Yip Coyote yee-ha into the charts, the Boomtown Rats chart-hits dwindle in the real charts, but still enter mine, and Bette Midler covers the Rolling Stones and places higher in the charts as both enter. Juan Martin, Spanish flamenco guitarist, sneaks in at the rear with his instrumental (with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)… On TV some Slags! Top my viewing chart, MASH is the first show I watch in Poole, and The Other Side Of The Tracks slips in , perfectly written and presented by the Encyclopedia of Rock and Pop, Paul Gambaccini, a personal hero of mine. By this time he’d already sent me a letter when I’d spotted some typos and missing tracks in the first edition of the Guinness Hit Singles book. I sincerely hope his enforced “garden leave” goes the same way as DLT’s. People’s memories of what may or may not happened 40 years ago is unreliable (according to the jury), especially when there’s the prospect of large sums of cash for the alleged victims (as noted by me)… 1 ( 1 ) RADIO GA GA Queen 2 ( 3 ) THE KILLING MOON Echo And The Bunnymen 3 ( 2 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 4 ( 4 ) HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN Eurythmics 5 ( 7 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 6 ( 14 ) WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD Nik Kershaw 7 ( 69 ) MICHAEL CAINE Madness 8 ( 5 ) (FEELS LIKE) HEAVEN Fiction Factory 9 ( 17 ) ONE SMALL DAY Ultravox 10 ( 13 ) WONDERLAND Big Country 1pszeueXNd0 11 ( 6 ) WISHFUL THINKING China Crisis 12 ( 8 ) CRYSTAL/ COLD AS CHRISTMAS Elton John 13 ( 10 ) S.O.S. ABC 14 ( 16 ) SPICE OF LIFE Manhattan Transfer 15 ( 36 ) SPEED YOUR LOVE TO ME Simple Minds 16 ( 32 ) JOANNA Kool And The Gang 17 ( 29 ) A NIGHT IN NEW YORK Elbow Bones and The Racketeers 18 ( 15 ) GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Cyndi Lauper 19 ( 12 ) BREAK MY STRIDE Matthew Wilder 20 ( 20 ) I GAVE YOU MY HEART (DIDN'T I) Hot Chocolate 21 ( 9 ) NOBODY TOLD ME John Lennon 22 ( 40 ) WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE The Smiths 23 ( 28 ) NEW MOON ON MONDAY Duran Duran 24 ( 53 ) 99 RED BALLOONS Nena 25 ( 11 ) PIPES OF PEACE Paul McCartney 26 ( 51 ) SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME Rockwell 27 ( 64 ) JUMP Van Halen 28 ( 18 ) THRILLER Michael Jackson 29 ( 30 ) HYPERACTIVE Thomas Dolby 30 ( 35 ) LET THE MUSIC PLAY Shannon wlq0lYB3iSM 31 ( 21 ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Pat Benatar 32 ( 38 ) RUN RUNAWAY Slade 33 ( 34 ) MIDDLE OF THE ROAD The Pretenders 34 ( 26 ) SIXTEEN Musical Youth 35 ( 24 ) MY OH MY Slade 36 ( 19 ) RUNNING WITH THE NIGHT Lionel Richie 37 ( 23 ) KING OF PAIN The Police 38 ( 42 ) GET OUT OF YOUR LAZY BED Matt Bianco 39 ( 22 ) WHERE IS MY MAN Eartha Kitt 40 ( NEW ) PUNCH AND JUDY Marillion ikMiQZF-mAY 41 ( 31 ) VICTIMS Culture Club 42 ( 74 ) SOUL TRAIN Swans Way 43 ( 39 ) ANOTHER LONELY NIGHT IN NEW YORK Robin Gibb 44 ( 49 ) DOCTOR DOCTOR Thompson Twins 45 ( 37 ) READ 'EM AND WEEP Barry Manilow 46 ( 27 ) WHAT IS LOVE Howard Jones 47 ( 46 ) BILLIE JEAN Michael Jackson 48 ( NEW ) ADVENTURES IN SUCCESS Will Powers 49 ( 55 ) YAH MO BE THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 50 ( 45 ) THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC Abba rBo2Kn8iBxA 51 ( 25 ) HUMAN TOUCH Rick Springfield 52 ( NEW ) DREAM OF THE WEST Yip Yip Coyote 53 ( 44 ) I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS Greg Lake 54 ( 41 ) I AM WHAT I AM Gloria Gaynor 55 ( 47 ) THE POLITICS OF DANCING Re-Flex 56 ( 33 ) LOVE IS A WONDERFUL COLOUR The Icicle Works 57 ( 56 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 58 ( 57 ) LET'S DANCE David Bowie 59 ( 59 ) CRY AND BE FREE Marilyn 60 ( 54 ) THIS CHARMING MAN The Smiths vudmqdYxN6Y 61 ( NEW ) TONIGHT The Boomtown Rats 62 ( 62 ) AN INNOCENT MAN Billy Joel 63 ( NEW ) MORE MORE MORE Carmel 64 ( 43 ) MARGUERITA TIME Status Quo 65 ( 48 ) LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Paul Young 66 ( NEW ) ORGANISE David Grant 67 ( 52 ) A ROCKIN' GOOD WAY Shaky and Bonnie (Stevens & Tyler) 68 ( NEW ) BEAST OF BURDEN Bette Midler 69 ( 50 ) WHERE WERE YOU HIDING WHEN THE STORM BROKE The Alarm 70 ( 68 ) THEY DON'T KNOW Tracey Ullman 71 ( 60 ) THE RULES OF THE GAME Bucks Fizz 72 ( NEW ) SHE WAS HOT The Rolling Stones 73 ( 63 ) 2000 MILES The Pretenders 74 ( 66 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 75 ( NEW ) LAST FAREWELL Juan Martin TV 1 Comic Strip Presents: Slags 2 Hill Street Blues 3 Mary Tyler Moore Show 4 MASH 5 Soap 6 The Avengers 7 Chocky 8 Doctor Who 9 Top Of The Pops 10 Grange Hill (2) 11 Bewitched 12 The Other Side Of The Tracks 13 The Phil Silvers Show 14 Barney Miller 15 The Living Planet Edited February 14, 201411 yr by popchartfreak
February 15, 201411 yr Author 21st Feb 1984 So, first chart in Poole and astonishingly here I still sit 30 years on. Where did the years go…? 3rd week for Queen on top, highest new entry from Men At Work with an actual UK flop (I’d bought it as a maxi-pack single with previous hits included), it wasn’t bad though. Nena of the Noine noine Luftballons hits 10, and a great newie emotive ballad and fab video for Howard Jones at 19, just ahead of classy Style Council’s mood-changing new one. My number one TV show that week (Cheers) had a great TV theme which became a minor hit cos, we all wanted to be where everybody knows your name (NORM!). Dance music had started to get a bit more street urban, and Street Dance body-popped it’s way into the Top 40, Will Powers popped in for the second time, this time without Carly Simon, but still trying to sound like a computer-generated man (despite being decidedly female), and Hall & Oates had yet another Top 40 in a long run. They only sporadically charted in the UK, but as they were consistently good my charts reflected their US success more… Lower end titbits: UB40 with another reggae cover, The Romantics pop in with a track that Bucks Fizz had a hit with later in the year in the UK (US hit original here though), Mel Brooks Director-actor-comedian-writer of the genius Blazing Saddles & more has an unlikely rap dance novelty hit roughly based on his latest comedy movie, and it’s still fun to listen to! By way of Illustration, and nothing to do with bragging, just note that I’ve seen 25 of this week’s chart acts in concert….in contrast to only 3 of this week’s UK Top 75 (0r 13 of my 75). Booooo! 1 ( 1 ) RADIO GA GA Queen 2 ( 2 ) THE KILLING MOON Echo And The Bunnymen 3 ( 6 ) WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD Nik Kershaw 4 ( 3 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 5 ( 7 ) MICHAEL CAINE Madness 6 ( 5 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 7 ( NEW ) BE GOOD JOHNNY Men At Work 8 ( 26 ) SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME Rockwell 9 ( 9 ) ONE SMALL DAY Ultravox 10 ( 24 ) 99 RED BALLOONS Nena Bpu8k8ht_jw 11 ( 20 ) I GAVE YOU MY HEART (DIDN'T I) Hot Chocolate 12 ( 4 ) HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN Eurythmics 13 ( 16 ) JOANNA Kool And The Gang 14 ( 17 ) A NIGHT IN NEW YORK Elbow Bones and The Racketeers 15 ( 27 ) JUMP Van Halen 16 ( 30 ) LET THE MUSIC PLAY Shannon 17 ( 8 ) (FEELS LIKE) HEAVEN Fiction Factory 18 ( 22 ) WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE The Smiths 19 ( NEW ) HIDE AND SEEK Howard Jones 20 ( NEW ) MY EVER CHANGING MOODS The Style Council I5GG7kKmozY 21 ( 38 ) GET OUT OF YOUR LAZY BED Matt Bianco 22 ( 12 ) CRYSTAL/ COLD AS CHRISTMAS Elton John 23 ( 23 ) NEW MOON ON MONDAY Duran Duran 24 ( 13 ) S.O.S. ABC 25 ( 42 ) SOUL TRAIN Swans Way 26 ( 11 ) WISHFUL THINKING China Crisis 27 ( 32 ) RUN RUNAWAY Slade 28 ( NEW ) THEME FROM CHEERS Gary Portnoy 29 ( 10 ) WONDERLAND Big Country 30 ( NEW ) STREET DANCE Break Machine ysykkZtrne0 31 ( 19 ) BREAK MY STRIDE Matthew Wilder 32 ( 63 ) MORE MORE MORE Carmel 33 ( 29 ) HYPERACTIVE Thomas Dolby 34 ( 18 ) GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Cyndi Lauper 35 ( 14 ) SPICE OF LIFE Manhattan Transfer 36 ( 21 ) NOBODY TOLD ME John Lennon 37 ( 44 ) DOCTOR DOCTOR Thompson Twins 38 ( 28 ) THRILLER Michael Jackson 39 ( 48 ) ADVENTURES IN SUCCESS Will Powers 40 ( NEW ) ADULT EDUCATION Daryl Hall & John Oates s22ufU-67iM 41 ( 15 ) SPEED YOUR LOVE TO ME Simple Minds 42 ( 25 ) PIPES OF PEACE Paul McCartney 43 ( NEW ) IT'S MY LIFE Talk Talk 44 ( 35 ) MY OH MY Slade 45 ( 40 ) PUNCH AND JUDY Marillion 46 ( 52 ) DREAM OF THE WEST Yip Yip Coyote 47 ( 41 ) VICTIMS Culture Club 48 ( 37 ) KING OF PAIN The Police 49 ( 49 ) YAH MO BE THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 50 ( 47 ) BILLIE JEAN Michael Jackson 51 ( 33 ) MIDDLE OF THE ROAD The Pretenders 52 ( 39 ) WHERE IS MY MAN Eartha Kitt 53 ( 50 ) THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC Abba 54 ( 31 ) LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD Pat Benatar 55 ( 34 ) SIXTEEN Musical Youth 56 ( 61 ) TONIGHT The Boomtown Rats 57 ( 57 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 58 ( 36 ) RUNNING WITH THE NIGHT Lionel Richie 59 ( 59 ) CRY AND BE FREE Marilyn 60 ( 58 ) LET'S DANCE David Bowie 61 ( 62 ) AN INNOCENT MAN Billy Joel 62 ( 45 ) READ 'EM AND WEEP Barry Manilow 63 ( 72 ) SHE WAS HOT The Rolling Stones 64 ( 66 ) ORGANISE David Grant 65 ( 53 ) I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS Greg Lake 66 ( NEW ) CHERRY OH BABY UB40 67 ( NEW ) TALKING IN YOUR SLEEP The Romantics 68 ( 46 ) WHAT IS LOVE Howard Jones 69 ( 68 ) BEAST OF BURDEN Bette Midler 70 ( NEW ) TO BE OR NOT TO BE Mel Brooks 4zpYQJkBQp0 71 ( 60 ) THIS CHARMING MAN The Smiths 72 ( RE ) DANCE HALL DAYS Wang Chung 73 ( 43 ) ANOTHER LONELY NIGHT IN NEW YORK Robin Gibb 74 ( NEW ) NAUGHTY MIRANDA Indians In Moscow 75 ( 65 ) LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Paul Young TV 1 Cheers 2 Comic Strip Presents: Bad News 3 MASH 4 Soap 5 Top Of The Pops 6 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 7 Reamington Steele 8 Play For Today: Billy 9 Bewitched 10 Doctor Who (2 eps) Edited February 15, 201411 yr by popchartfreak
February 15, 201411 yr Author 28th Feb 1984 All change at the top, Rockwell (and Michael Jackson) on top. As he gets no billing, MJ doesn’t get any credit for this (but it’s his 8th to date). In those days superstars were happy to lend more than a hand as a favour, without getting label credit, and generally without needing songwriting armies too. There are two videos, both a bit spooky, one very 80's clothes! Howard Jones jumps high to 2, in contrast stylistically, and ditto Break Machine at 5. Hot choc get their final Top 10 single after a long run of 15 consecutive years, more or less. Very few punk or New Wave bands around by this time, but the Rats go up to 31, Tracey Ullman covers Madness for the highest new entry, Scritti Politti enter with a classic, Green Gartside’s vocals very other-worldly and sweet, the record unusual, and the same could be said of Was (Not Was) a cool American act, almost retro-soul in an 80’s stylee. Tina Turner covers the Beatles, The Beat split and half-reappear as General Public, George McRae’s back after 9 years away, and Roger Daltrey pops in with one of his occasional solo hits (Who?!) A lot of records drop, most criminally Talk Talk’s classic It’s My Life. Of course it eventually became a hit in the 90’s, but it wasn’t getting a lot of airplay in the UK, I think, as I don’t recall hearing it much… TV-chart increases as I allow video recordings in now. Yes, I owned a (persistently faulty) Betamax machine, and the rubbish Channel 4 reception in Dorset got on my nerves when I wanted to record stuff, and I eventually had to buy loads of VHS tapes to copy over as Betamax was killed off. Booo! To date, I have yet to find time to copy over to DVD all those fab 80’s TV shows and videos. Boooooo! 7YvAYIJSSZY&feature=kp C7-2vcIoPRw 1 ( 8 ) SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME Rockwell 2 ( 19 ) HIDE AND SEEK Howard Jones 3 ( 4 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 4 ( 1 ) RADIO GA GA Queen 5 ( 30 ) STREET DANCE Break Machine 6 ( 3 ) WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD Nik Kershaw 7 ( 7 ) BE GOOD JOHNNY Men At Work 8 ( 20 ) MY EVER CHANGING MOODS The Style Council 9 ( 11 ) I GAVE YOU MY HEART (DIDN'T I) Hot Chocolate 10 ( 5 ) MICHAEL CAINE Madness rDhzZ7jAUKA 11 ( 2 ) THE KILLING MOON Echo And The Bunnymen 12 ( 6 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 13 ( 15 ) JUMP Van Halen 14 ( 10 ) 99 RED BALLOONS Nena 15 ( 25 ) SOUL TRAIN Swans Way 16 ( 16 ) LET THE MUSIC PLAY Shannon 17 ( 13 ) JOANNA Kool And The Gang 18 ( 28 ) THEME FROM CHEERS Gary Portnoy 19 ( 21 ) GET OUT OF YOUR LAZY BED Matt Bianco 20 ( 9 ) ONE SMALL DAY Ultravox kFHvXlvfveU 21 ( 32 ) MORE MORE MORE Carmel 22 ( 12 ) HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN Eurythmics 23 ( 14 ) A NIGHT IN NEW YORK Elbow Bones and The Racketeers 24 ( 40 ) ADULT EDUCATION Daryl Hall & John Oates 25 ( 27 ) RUN RUNAWAY Slade 26 ( 23 ) NEW MOON ON MONDAY Duran Duran 27 ( 17 ) (FEELS LIKE) HEAVEN Fiction Factory 28 ( 39 ) ADVENTURES IN SUCCESS Will Powers 29 ( 18 ) WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE The Smiths 30 ( 37 ) DOCTOR DOCTOR Thompson Twins 31 ( 56 ) TONIGHT The Boomtown Rats 32 ( 24 ) S.O.S. ABC 33 ( 31 ) BREAK MY STRIDE Matthew Wilder 34 ( 34 ) GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Cyndi Lauper 35 ( 22 ) CRYSTAL/ COLD AS CHRISTMAS Elton John 36 ( 61 ) AN INNOCENT MAN Billy Joel 37 ( 33 ) HYPERACTIVE Thomas Dolby 38 ( 66 ) CHERRY OH BABY UB40 39 ( 26 ) WISHFUL THINKING China Crisis 40 ( 64 ) ORGANISE David Grant 41 ( 38 ) THRILLER Michael Jackson 42 ( 36 ) NOBODY TOLD ME John Lennon 43 ( 41 ) SPEED YOUR LOVE TO ME Simple Minds 44 ( 29 ) WONDERLAND Big Country 45 ( 70 ) TO BE OR NOT TO BE Mel Brooks 46 ( 35 ) SPICE OF LIFE Manhattan Transfer 47 ( NEW ) MY GUY'S MAD AT ME Tracey Ullman 48 ( 49 ) YAH MO BE THERE James Ingram and Michael McDonald 49 ( NEW ) WOOD BEEZ (PRAY LIKE ARETHA FRANKLIN) Scritti Politti 50 ( 50 ) BILLIE JEAN Michael Jackson 51 ( 42 ) PIPES OF PEACE Paul McCartney 52 ( NEW ) OUT COME THE FREAKS Was (Not Was) 53 ( 44 ) MY OH MY Slade 54 ( 47 ) VICTIMS Culture Club 55 ( 53 ) THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC Abba 56 ( 59 ) CRY AND BE FREE Marilyn 57 ( 67 ) TALKING IN YOUR SLEEP The Romantics 58 ( 57 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 59 ( NEW ) HELP Tina Turner 60 ( 60 ) LET'S DANCE David Bowie JmGMzyajA2U 61 ( 52 ) WHERE IS MY MAN Eartha Kitt 62 ( 48 ) KING OF PAIN The Police 63 ( 43 ) IT'S MY LIFE Talk Talk 64 ( NEW ) THE LION'S MOUTH Kajagoogoo 65 ( 62 ) READ 'EM AND WEEP Barry Manilow 66 ( NEW ) THINK OF LAURA Christopher Cross 67 ( 51 ) MIDDLE OF THE ROAD The Pretenders 68 ( 63 ) SHE WAS HOT The Rolling Stones 69 ( 72 ) DANCE HALL DAYS Wang Chung 70 ( NEW ) GENERAL PUBLIC General Public 71 ( NEW ) DIN DAA DAA (TROMMERHANZ) George Kranz 72 ( 45 ) PUNCH AND JUDY Marillion 73 ( NEW ) WALKING IN MY SLEEP Roger Daltrey 74 ( 71 ) THIS CHARMING MAN The Smiths 75 ( NEW ) ONE STEP CLOSER (TO LOVE) George McRae TV 1 Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (film) 2 Star Trek: Mirror Mirror 3 Cheers 4 Comic Strip Presents: 5 Go Mad On Mescalin 5 MASH 6 The Twilight Zone: Roddy McDowell 7 Soap 8 Mary Tyler Moore Show 9 Bewitched 10 Reamington Steele 11 Top Of The Pops 12 The Other Side Of The Tracks: The Pretenders 13 Here's Lucy 14 The Avengers 15 The Phil Silvers Show (Bilko) 16 Grange Hill 17 Dallas 18 The Beverley Hillbillies 19 Doctor Who (2 eps) 20 The Munsters Edited February 15, 201411 yr by popchartfreak
February 17, 201411 yr A load of quick fallers there by Slade, Cyndi Lauper & Paul McCartney - and were those songs ABBAs last hits leaving the chart?
February 17, 201411 yr Author A load of quick fallers there by Slade, Cyndi Lauper & Paul McCartney - and were those songs ABBAs last hits leaving the chart? Hi Steve, yes the Abba songs were their last hits until 1992 when Dancing Queen was re-issued to promote Abba Gold. I think that proved to be a good decision :lol: Then they had other re-issues and lots of unreleased stuff chart, and eventually album tracks that would have charted had I allowed them at the time B-) cheers! john
March 17, 201411 yr Author 5th March 1984 2 weeks at 1 for Rockwell, while Van Halen Jump to 4 (ho ho) and Nena floats back up to 7. Cheers theme is at 11 in the singles chart, and 4th in my TV chart. I’ve set myself a task to spot music links to the TV list. OK here goes, Comic Strip: French & Saunders had a few hits, as did neil, and The Young Ones. MASH was a number one record. Norm in Cheers was in a Michael Jackson video. Billy Crystal from Soap had a US hit with You Look Marvellous, and another cast member was a Pink Lady in Grease. The Rockford Files theme was a US hit, Patrick MacNee & Honor Blackman had a hit with Kinky Boots (Avengers), The Twilight Zone theme has been featured in many hits, Kylie starred in Aussie soap The Sullivans, Howard Keel (musical star) was in Dallas, and the Doctor Who theme has been a hit and pop stars featured, such as Leee John and others. Show-off. I had a lot of unemployed TV time on my hands in those days. Back in chartland, Highest new entries from three former chart-toppers, Culture Club going for the wrong single (the USA went for the right one off the album, Miss Me Blind, never a UK single), but it was still good enough to beat late hero John Lennon’s posthumous and sad Borrowed Time and Soft Cell’s slap-clappy synth Subway song, a bit of a change in sound for them. The Nana’s were back with one of their best self-written songs, all about Robert de Niro. You talking to me?! A bit of Ravel pops in, courtesy of a bit of fancy ice-skating. OK a bit of perfect ice-skating. Fleetwood Mac’s Christine gets a solo hit of sorts, she’s fab and rejoining them in 2014, yay! Let’s not mention the Fraggle Rock theme, I was, after all, 26 years old and should have known better! 1 ( 1 ) SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME Rockwell 2 ( 2 ) HIDE AND SEEK Howard Jones 3 ( 6 ) WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD Nik Kershaw 4 ( 13 ) JUMP Van Halen 5 ( 5 ) STREET DANCE Break Machine 6 ( 3 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 7 ( 14 ) 99 RED BALLOONS Nena 8 ( 4 ) RADIO GA GA Queen 9 ( 9 ) I GAVE YOU MY HEART (DIDN'T I) Hot Chocolate 10 ( 10 ) MICHAEL CAINE Madness 11 ( 18 ) THEME FROM CHEERS Gary Portnoy 12 ( 15 ) SOUL TRAIN Swans Way 13 ( 8 ) MY EVER CHANGING MOODS The Style Council 14 ( 17 ) JOANNA Kool And The Gang 15 ( 12 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 16 ( 24 ) ADULT EDUCATION Daryl Hall & John Oates 17 ( 21 ) MORE MORE MORE Carmel 18 ( 25 ) RUN RUNAWAY Slade 19 ( 11 ) THE KILLING MOON Echo And The Bunnymen 20 ( 7 ) BE GOOD JOHNNY Men At Work YewVugPHon4&feature=kp 21 ( NEW ) IT'S A MIRACLE Culture Club 22 ( 19 ) GET OUT OF YOUR LAZY BED Matt Bianco 23 ( 52 ) OUT COME THE FREAKS Was (Not Was) 24 ( 16 ) LET THE MUSIC PLAY Shannon 25 ( NEW ) BORROWED TIME John Lennon 26 ( 28 ) ADVENTURES IN SUCCESS Will Powers 27 ( NEW ) DOWN IN THE SUBWAY Soft Cell 28 ( 38 ) CHERRY OH BABY UB40 29 ( 20 ) ONE SMALL DAY Ultravox 30 ( 40 ) ORGANISE David Grant HfWPkLvM7kc 31 ( 47 ) MY GUY'S MAD AT ME Tracey Ullman 32 ( 45 ) TO BE OR NOT TO BE Mel Brooks 33 ( 36 ) AN INNOCENT MAN Billy Joel 34 ( 22 ) HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN Eurythmics 35 ( NEW ) BREAKIN' DOWN Julia & Co. 36 ( 23 ) A NIGHT IN NEW YORK Elbow Bones and The Racketeers 37 ( NEW ) ROBERT DE NIRO'S WAITING Bananarama 38 ( 33 ) BREAK MY STRIDE Matthew Wilder 39 ( 26 ) NEW MOON ON MONDAY Duran Duran 40 ( 56 ) CRY AND BE FREE Marilyn Prqn0idS_YM 41 ( 32 ) S.O.S. ABC 42 ( 41 ) THRILLER Michael Jackson 43 ( 43 ) SPEED YOUR LOVE TO ME Simple Minds 44 ( 35 ) CRYSTAL/ COLD AS CHRISTMAS Elton John 45 ( RE ) THE POLITICS OF DANCING Re-Flex 46 ( 34 ) GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Cyndi Lauper 47 ( 49 ) WOOD BEEZ (PRAY LIKE ARETHA FRANKLIN) Scritti Politti 48 ( 29 ) WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE The Smiths 49 ( NEW ) BOLERO (MUSIC OF TORVILL AND DEAN) Richard Hartley/ Michael Reed Orchestra 50 ( 50 ) BILLIE JEAN Michael Jackson 51 ( 27 ) (FEELS LIKE) HEAVEN Fiction Factory 52 ( 39 ) WISHFUL THINKING China Crisis 53 ( 42 ) NOBODY TOLD ME John Lennon 54 ( RE ) BEAST OF BURDEN Bette Midler 55 ( 55 ) THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC Abba 56 ( 30 ) DOCTOR DOCTOR Thompson Twins 57 ( 73 ) WALKING IN YOUR SLEEP Roger Daltrey 58 ( 69 ) DANCE HALL DAYS Wang Chung 59 ( 58 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 60 ( 60 ) LET'S DANCE David Bowie 61 ( 53 ) MY OH MY Slade 62 ( 54 ) VICTIMS Culture Club 63 ( 31 ) TONIGHT The Boomtown Rats 64 ( 64 ) THE LION'S MOUTH Kajagoogoo 65 ( 51 ) PIPES OF PEACE Paul McCartney 66 ( 44 ) WONDERLAND Big Country 67 ( 57 ) TALKING IN YOUR SLEEP The Romantics 68 ( 59 ) HELP Tina Turner 69 ( 65 ) READ 'EM AND WEEP Barry Manilow 70 ( 46 ) SPICE OF LIFE Manhattan Transfer 71 ( NEW ) GOT A HOLD ON ME Christine McVie 72 ( 37 ) HYPERACTIVE Thomas Dolby 73 ( 61 ) WHERE IS MY MAN Eartha Kitt 74 ( 62 ) KING OF PAIN The Police 75 ( NEW ) FRAGGLE ROCK THEME The Fraggles TV 1 Star Trek: Turnabout Intruder 2 MASH 3 Comic Strip Presents: War 4 Cheers 5 Star Trek: Alternative Factor 6 Mary Tyler Moore Show 7 Soap 8 Reamington Steele 9 Rockford Files 10 Bewitched 11 Top Of The Pops 12 The Avengers 13 The Twilight Zone 14 The Thin Man: film 15 The Sullivans 16 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In 17 Dallas 18 The Munsters 19 Here's Lucy 20 Doctor Who (2 eps) Edited March 17, 201411 yr by popchartfreak
March 19, 201411 yr Author 12th March 1984 3 Weeks for Jacko & Gordy Jnr at 1, and Jonesy at 2, poor Howard never did get that number one. Joining such unlucky acts in my charts (of those that have deserved number ones) such as Pink, The Sex Pistols and others. Van Halen hit 3, Nena hits funf, Kool and The Gang get the second of only 2 top 10’s they ever had (Celebration, of course, being the first) and Slade extend their run of top 10 hits to 13 years. A big climber for Robert De Niro, waiting, and Julia & Co, while 1983 entry It’s Raining Men pops back bigger at 28. Hallelujah! Highest new entry is the cool jazzy sounds of Sade heralding cocktail album music huge sales for many-an 80’s act. Phil Fearon keeps British dance music going, head-flipping during singing and dancing. He was quite fit, you know. Bottom end (shock!) entries for future anthem and protest song Nelson Mandela, influential Afrika Bambaata Funking Renegades and the sound of the next decade, Lionel Richie’s hilarious Hello (video), and err The Alan Parsons Project, punchline of many an Austin Powers gag set-up. 1 ( 1 ) SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME Rockwell 2 ( 2 ) HIDE AND SEEK Howard Jones 3 ( 4 ) JUMP Van Halen 4 ( 5 ) STREET DANCE Break Machine 5 ( 7 ) 99 RED BALLOONS Nena 6 ( 9 ) I GAVE YOU MY HEART (DIDN'T I) Hot Chocolate 7 ( 3 ) WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD Nik Kershaw 8 ( 14 ) JOANNA Kool And The Gang 9 ( 6 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 10 ( 18 ) RUN RUNAWAY Slade 11 ( 8 ) RADIO GA GA Queen 12 ( 10 ) MICHAEL CAINE Madness 13 ( 16 ) ADULT EDUCATION Daryl Hall & John Oates 14 ( 21 ) IT'S A MIRACLE Culture Club 15 ( 25 ) BORROWED TIME John Lennon 16 ( 32 ) TO BE OR NOT TO BE Mel Brooks 17 ( 37 ) ROBERT DE NIRO'S WAITING Bananarama 18 ( 13 ) MY EVER CHANGING MOODS The Style Council 19 ( 35 ) BREAKIN' DOWN Julia & Co. 20 ( 31 ) MY GUY Tracey Ullman 21 ( 11 ) THEME FROM CHEERS Gary Portnoy 22 ( 15 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 23 ( 23 ) OUT COME THE FREAKS Was (Not Was) 24 ( 28 ) CHERRY OH BABY UB40 25 ( 12 ) SOUL TRAIN Swans Way 26 ( 19 ) THE KILLING MOON Echo And The Bunnymen 27 ( 27 ) DOWN IN THE SUBWAY Soft Cell 28 ( RE ) IT'S RAINING MEN The Weather Girls 29 ( 26 ) ADVENTURES IN SUCCESS Will Powers 30 ( 17 ) MORE MORE MORE Carmel 31 ( 33 ) AN INNOCENT MAN Billy Joel 32 ( 22 ) GET OUT OF YOUR LAZY BED Matt Bianco 33 ( 24 ) LET THE MUSIC PLAY Shannon 34 ( 45 ) THE POLITICS OF DANCING Re-Flex 35 ( 49 ) BOLERO (MUSIC OF TORVILL AND DEAN) Richard Hartley/ Michael Reed Orchestra 36 ( NEW ) YOUR LOVE IS KING Sade 37 ( 20 ) BE GOOD JOHNNY Men At Work 38 ( 47 ) WOOD BEEZ (PRAY LIKE ARETHA FRANKLIN) Scritti Politti 39 ( NEW ) WHAT DO I DO Phil Fearon & Galaxy 40 ( 34 ) HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN Eurythmics k1ljpLQ1V6Y 41 ( 64 ) THE LION'S MOUTH Kajagoogoo 42 ( 42 ) THRILLER Michael Jackson 43 ( 43 ) SPEED YOUR LOVE TO ME Simple Minds 44 ( 29 ) ONE SMALL DAY Ultravox 45 ( 38 ) BREAK MY STRIDE Matthew Wilder 46 ( 58 ) DANCE HALL DAYS Wang Chung 47 ( 39 ) NEW MOON ON MONDAY Duran Duran 48 ( 36 ) A NIGHT IN NEW YORK Elbow Bones and The Racketeers 49 ( 46 ) GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Cyndi Lauper 50 ( 50 ) BILLIE JEAN Michael Jackson 51 ( 41 ) S.O.S. ABC 52 ( 30 ) ORGANISE David Grant 53 ( 68 ) HELP Tina Turner 54 ( 40 ) CRY AND BE FREE Marilyn 55 ( 44 ) CRYSTAL/ COLD AS CHRISTMAS Elton John 56 ( 54 ) BEAST OF BURDEN Bette Midler 57 ( 57 ) WALKING IN YOUR SLEEP Roger Daltrey 58 ( 59 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 59 ( 55 ) THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC Abba 60 ( 60 ) LET'S DANCE David Bowie 61 ( 53 ) NOBODY TOLD ME John Lennon 62 ( 48 ) WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE The Smiths 63 ( 51 ) (FEELS LIKE) HEAVEN Fiction Factory 64 ( 52 ) WISHFUL THINKING China Crisis 65 ( NEW ) NELSON MANDELA The Special A.K.A. 66 ( 61 ) MY OH MY Slade 67 ( NEW ) DON'T ANSWER ME The Alan Parsons Project 68 ( 62 ) VICTIMS Culture Club 69 ( 69 ) READ 'EM AND WEEP Barry Manilow 70 ( 56 ) DOCTOR DOCTOR Thompson Twins o3NJwyzFlTE&feature=kp 71 ( NEW ) RENEGADES OF FUNK Afrika Bambaata & The Soul Sonic Force 72 ( NEW ) HANNA HANNA China Crisis 73 ( NEW ) SHATTERPROOF Billy Bremner 74 ( 65 ) PIPES OF PEACE Paul McCartney 75 ( NEW ) HELLO Lionel Richie yYzakWz3JxU TV 1 Soap 2 Cheers 3 MASH 4 It'll Be Alright On The Night 4 5 Mary Tyler Moore Show 6 Reamington Steele 7 Rockford Files 8 Bewitched 9 The Professionals 10 The Sullivans 11 Dr Who: Caves Of Androzani 12 The Other Side Of The Tracks 13 Film: 9 To 5 14 Top Of The Pops 15 Munsters Edited March 19, 201411 yr by popchartfreak
March 24, 201411 yr Author 19th March 1984 A big leap to the top for Culture Club’s catchy Miracle, it looked like there was no stopping Boy George at this stage, 4 number ones in and all very different. John Lennon’s last big posthumous release hits 3, and Jacko goes further than anyone in history - in drawing yet another hit single off one mega-album, the 6th. With it the birth of the “flogging it to death, bonus tracks (also Jackson to blame for that) and special editions (ditto) it’s all about milking it rather than doing new stuff” syndrome. It WAS good, of course, and in at 5. Was (Not Was) get a top 10 hit debut, Hall & Oates get yet another of many, and Mel Brooks gets a rare novelty Top 10 hit. Scritti Politti leap up, the Weather Girls storm (geddit?) the 20, and Lionel Richie greets us all at 30. To be honest it wasn’t him I was looking for, but he could see it my eyes, and it sounded OK for a few weeks. New in: yes, it’s Yes, Trevor Horn acapella fab, Icicle Works tell us Birds Fly, as I found out yesterday when I was on the M27 doing 70 and a pigeon flapped down onto my windscreen. Sadly, he only briefly held the world record for the fastest bird somersault. Siouxsie swims with horses, Lulu has one of her periodic comebacks in my charts, and Chris Rea has the latest in a very long list of minor chart entries. On TV Joan Rivers was hot and her material still fresh, and TV sitcoms and soaps loomed large in my world as the long days of job applications was too tedious to stand for more than a few hours. It’s soul destroying and anyone doing it now has my sympathy! 1 ( 14 ) IT'S A MIRACLE Culture Club 2 ( 1 ) SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME Rockwell 3 ( 15 ) BORROWED TIME John Lennon 4 ( 4 ) STREET DANCE Break Machine 5 ( NEW ) PYT (PRETTY YOUNG THING) Michael Jackson 6 ( 3 ) JUMP Van Halen 7 ( 7 ) WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD Nik Kershaw 8 ( 23 ) OUT COME THE FREAKS Was (Not Was) 9 ( 13 ) ADULT EDUCATION Daryl Hall & John Oates 10 ( 16 ) TO BE OR NOT TO BE Mel Brooks s22ufU-67iM 11 ( 2 ) HIDE AND SEEK Howard Jones 12 ( 17 ) ROBERT DE NIRO'S WAITING Bananarama 13 ( 38 ) WOOD BEEZ (PRAY LIKE ARETHA FRANKLIN) Scritti Politti 14 ( 8 ) JOANNA Kool And The Gang 15 ( 5 ) 99 RED BALLOONS Nena 16 ( 9 ) RELAX Frankie Goes To Hollywood 17 ( 24 ) CHERRY OH BABY UB40 18 ( 11 ) RADIO GA GA Queen 19 ( 28 ) IT'S RAINING MEN The Weather Girls 20 ( 6 ) I GAVE YOU MY HEART (DIDN'T I) Hot Chocolate YhWE0we4FaQ 21 ( 12 ) MICHAEL CAINE Madness 22 ( 39 ) WHAT DO I DO Phil Fearon & Galaxy 23 ( 19 ) BREAKIN' DOWN (SUGAR SAMBA) Julia & Co. 24 ( 10 ) RUN RUNAWAY Slade 25 ( 18 ) MY EVER CHANGING MOODS The Style Council 26 ( 41 ) THE LION'S MOUTH Kajagoogoo 27 ( 35 ) BOLERO (MUSIC OF TORVILL AND DEAN) Richard Hartley/ Michael Reed Orchestra 28 ( 20 ) MY GUY Tracey Ullman 29 ( 36 ) YOUR LOVE IS KING Sade 30 ( 75 ) HELLO Lionel Richie 31 ( 22 ) HOLIDAY Madonna 32 ( 26 ) THE KILLING MOON Echo And The Bunnymen 33 ( 46 ) DANCE HALL DAYS Wang Chung 34 ( 34 ) THE POLITICS OF DANCING Re-Flex 35 ( 21 ) THEME FROM CHEERS Gary Portnoy 36 ( 27 ) DOWN IN THE SUBWAY Soft Cell 37 ( 31 ) AN INNOCENT MAN Billy Joel 38 ( 25 ) SOUL TRAIN Swans Way 39 ( NEW ) JESSIE'S GIRL Rick Springfield 40 ( 57 ) WALKING IN YOUR SLEEP Roger Daltrey 41 ( 33 ) LET THE MUSIC PLAY Shannon 42 ( 32 ) GET OUT OF YOUR LAZY BED Matt Bianco 43 ( 43 ) SPEED YOUR LOVE TO ME Simple Minds 44 ( 42 ) THRILLER Michael Jackson 45 ( 40 ) HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN Eurythmics 46 ( 56 ) BEAST OF BURDEN Bette Midler 47 ( 29 ) ADVENTURES IN SUCCESS Will Powers 48 ( 65 ) NELSON MANDELA The Special A.K.A. 49 ( 30 ) MORE MORE MORE Carmel 50 ( 50 ) BILLIE JEAN Michael Jackson 51 ( 53 ) HELP Tina Turner 52 ( 72 ) HANNA HANNA China Crisis 53 ( 37 ) BE GOOD JOHNNY Men At Work 54 ( NEW ) BIRDS FLY (WHISPER TO A SCREAM) Icicle Works 55 ( 45 ) BREAK MY STRIDE Matthew Wilder 56 ( NEW ) LEAVE IT Yes 57 ( 58 ) THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME Abba 58 ( 49 ) GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Cyndi Lauper 59 ( 60 ) LET'S DANCE David Bowie 60 ( 59 ) THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC Abba -M9JE9R9ld4 61 ( 51 ) S.O.S. ABC 62 ( 44 ) ONE SMALL DAY Ultravox 63 ( 71 ) RENEGADES OF FUNK Afrika Bambaata & The Soul Sonic Force 64 ( 48 ) A NIGHT IN NEW YORK Elbow Bones and The Racketeers 65 ( 55 ) CRYSTAL/ COLD AS CHRISTMAS Elton John 66 ( NEW ) SWIMMING HORSES Siouxsie & The Banshees 67 ( 73 ) SHATTERPROOF Billy Bremner 68 ( 47 ) NEW MOON ON MONDAY Duran Duran 69 ( NEW ) IS THAT SO Lulu 70 ( NEW ) DO YOU WANNA DANCE Toni Basil 71 ( NEW ) THE KID'S AMERICAN Matthew Wilder 72 ( 69 ) READ 'EM AND WEEP Barry Manilow 73 ( NEW ) I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS Chris Rea 74 ( NEW ) GHOST OF LOVE Fiction Factory 75 ( 66 ) MY OH MY Slade TV 1 Blade Runner: film 2 An Audience With Joan Rivers 3 Hill Street Blues 4 Doctor Who: The Five Doctors 5 Soap 6 Cheers 7 MASH 8 Doctor Who: 2 eps 9 The Twilight Zone 10 Mary Tyler Moore Show 11 Top Of The Pops 12 Outlands: film 13 Comic Strip Presents: Beat Generation 14 Bewitched 15 Phil Silvers Show (Bilko) 16 The Professionals 17 The Sullivans 18 The Beverley Hillbillies 19 The Munsters 20 It Ain't Half Hot Mum Edited March 24, 201411 yr by popchartfreak
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