March 28, 20196 yr Author 'You're the Voice' is great, perhaps influenced by fellow rock ballad Foreigner's I Want To Know What Love Is two years earlier with the epic sound and the choir coming in at the end and everything, but I think I prefer 'You're The Voice'. Such an anthem! Hi Snakey, of the two I'd plump for Foreigner, but I was pretty big on John farnham at the time too - though I cant recall how high it got, I'd be shocked if it was outside the top 10. (Checks) Yes, 8. :lol:
March 28, 20196 yr though shockingly Wet Wet Wet drop out after one week - though they'll be back, I must have been early on it before it started charting :lol: 'Wishing I Was Lucky' is easily the best song I have heard from them...such a unique sounding pop song. If only they had kept making such interesting styled songs...... I only discovered it recently, it isn't really played much these days and is rather forgotten sadly.
March 28, 20196 yr Author 24th March 2019 It's 2 weeks on top for Jackie Wilson as he also tops my playlist of the week with his next single and future chart-topper. Oops gave it away! Madonna hits 2, Bruce Willis gets his only top 10 single, Alison Moyet adds to her list of top 10's about 8 or 9 to date, and obscure band Secession leap up to 9, hoho that's Magic! Herb Alpert is top 20, Billy Idol shoots his gun straight into the 20 from outside the 40, his 4th or 5th, Club Nouveau do even better, from doing a 69 they make Lean On Me a third-time top 20 song. Labi Siffre gets his first top 20 in 15 years, hooray! Highest new entry starts a theme of cover versions, this time charity record Let It Be, The Beatles former twice-chart-topper, from Ferry Aid, while Siouxsie does another cover, Iggy Pop this time (The Passenger), and Fine Young cannibals radically rework Buzzcocks, not so much punk as funk. Dead Or Aliove get the highest new song, keeping the run of success going at 47 with Hooked On Love (at least here if not the UK charts). Janet Jackson gets a huge leap into the top 40, not content to wait awhile at all, Peter Gabriel does a funked up Big Time clone follow-up to his classic Sledgehammer, David Grant keeps his 7-year run going on diminishing returns, ditto The Thompson Twins 4-year-run, Jaki Graham's 2-year-run, and Smokey Robinson has a come-back after being away a few years, to extend his run to 18 years. Most significant debut, though, is Terence Trent D'Arby one of the key egos, I mean key acts, sorry, of 1987. If You Let Me Stay was a goodie and set him up to be an albums success to boot. 1 ( 1 ) I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING Jackie Wilson 2 ( 4 ) LA ISLA BONITA Madonna 3 ( 3 ) PENNY LANE/STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER The Beatles 4 ( 7 ) RESPECTABLE Mel & Kim 5 ( 8 ) SIGN O’ THE TIMES Prince 6 ( 5 ) STAND BY ME Ben E. King 7 ( 15 ) RESPECT YOURSELF Bruce Willis 8 ( 17 ) WEAK IN THE PRESENCE OF BEAUTY Alison Moyet 9 ( 34 ) THE MAGICIAN Secession 10 ( 2 ) WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN Percy Sledge 11 ( 6 ) WHAT’S GOING ON Cyndi Lauper 12 ( 24 ) KEEP YOUR EYE ON ME Herb Alpert 13 ( 13 ) FORGOTTEN TOWN The Christians 14 ( 10 ) (YOU GOTTA) FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY The Beastie Boys 15 ( 9 ) I KNEW YOU WERE WAITING (FOR ME) Aretha Franklin & George Michael 16 ( 43 ) DON’T NEED A GUN Billy Idol 17 ( 22 ) LET MY PEOPLE GOGO The Rainmakers 18 ( 69 ) LEAN ON ME Club Nouveau 19 ( 30 ) (SOMETHING INSIDE) SO STRONG Labi Siffre 20 ( 11 ) LIVE IT UP Mental As Anything 21 ( 14 ) EVERYTHING I OWN Boy George 22 ( 16 ) MANHATTAN SKYLINE a-ha 23 ( 19 ) PLEASE YOURSELF The Big Supreme 24 ( NEW ) LET IT BE Ferry Aid 25 ( 18 ) CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION ’87 T.Rex 26 ( 37 ) IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE Erasure 27 ( 12 ) SONIC BOOM BOY Westworld 28 ( 27 ) COMING AROUND AGAIN Carly Simon 29 ( 44 ) JIMMY LEE Aretha Franklin 30 ( 42 ) SEVERINA The Mission 31 ( 21 ) MALE STRIPPER Man 2 Man Meet Parrish 32 ( 74 ) LET’S WAIT AWHILE Janet Jackson 33 ( 23 ) MISSIONARY MAN Eurythmics 34 ( 40 ) THE GREAT PRETENDER Freddie Mercury 35 ( 38 ) LOVING YOU IS SWEETER THAN EVER Nick Kamen 36 ( 20 ) SHIP OF FOOLS World Party 37 ( 45 ) LIKE FLAMES Berlin 38 ( 46 ) I’D RATHER GO BLIND Ruby Turner 39 ( 26 ) CRUSH ON YOU The Jets 40 ( 49 ) WATCHING THE WILDLIFE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 41 ( 36 ) RUNNING IN THE FAMILY Level 42 42 ( 65 ) WITH OR WITHOUT YOU U2 43 ( 64 ) YOU’RE THE VOICE John Farnham 44 ( 39 ) YOU SEXY THING (BEN LIEBRAND REMIX) Hot Chocolate 45 ( 35 ) MOONLIGHTING Al Jarreau 46 ( 50 ) WHAT YOU GET IS WHAT YOU SEE Tina Turner 47 ( NEW ) HOOKED ON LOVE Dead Or Alive 48 ( 33 ) YOU ARE MY WORLD ’87 The Communards 49 ( 29 ) IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY The Blow Monkeys 50 ( NEW ) THE PASSENGER Siouxsie & The Banshees 51 ( 31 ) THE RIGHT THING Simply Red 52 ( 57 ) TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT Genesis 53 ( 41 ) SOMEBODY’S COMING Little Richard 54 ( 51 ) BEST KEPT SECRET China Crisis 55 ( 55 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 56 ( 52 ) OPEN YOUR HEART Madonna 57 ( 28 ) SKIN TRADE Duran Duran 58 ( 53 ) THE EP (HOW CAN I BE SURE/ I’M A CLOWN/ COULD IT BE FOREVER) David Cassidy 59 ( 56 ) HUMAN Human League 60 ( NEW ) EVER FALLEN IN LOVE Fine Young Cannibals 61 ( 25 ) DIAMONDS ON THE SOLES OF HER SHOES Paul Simon 62 ( NEW ) BIG TIME Peter Gabriel 63 ( 60 ) AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Diana Ross 64 ( 71 ) MY BABY The Pretenders 65 ( NEW ) TAKE US BACK David Grant 66 ( 72 ) SELA Lionel Richie 67 ( 47 ) ALMAZ Randy Crawford 68 ( 68 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 69 ( NEW ) IF YOU LET ME STAY Terence Trent D’Arby 70 ( 67 ) LAST CHRISTMAS Wham! 71 ( 48 ) C’EST LA VIE Robbie Nevil 72 ( NEW ) JUST TO SEE HER Smokey Robinson 73 ( 70 ) TRUE BLUE Madonna 74 ( NEW ) STILL IN LOVE Jaki Graham 75 ( NEW ) GET THAT LOVE The Thompson Twins Oldies Playlist 1 HIGHER AND HIGHER Jackie Wilson 2 ON MY OWN Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald 3 WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER Timmy Thomas
March 28, 20196 yr Hi Steve, :) yes it's bizarre how Last Christmas is still in - it was still fresh in those days and I still loved it. These days I don't even bother to chart it cos it's just saturation everywhere every xmas! A good rise for U2 coming up, though shockingly Wet Wet Wet drop out after one week - though they'll be back, I must have been early on it before it started charting :lol: White aggressive rap was a novelty, prior to that rap broke through proper in 1979 with the Sugarhill Gang, and Kurtis Blow, then everyone had a go :lol: Blondie and Adam Ant both had fab rap-based tracks, and synth-urban rap became hoooge with Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel and others. Beastie Boys were the first sort-of pop-rap band to breakthrough, though they got more hardcore as they went on, and much less poppy. I could listen to Last Christmas anyday as well :P Yes I remember Grandmaster Flash and Mele Mel in 1984/85 performing a lot, seems like we are at another level now in 86/87. Who can forget Christmas Rap by Kurtis Blow in December 89!!
March 28, 20196 yr Quite sad how post 1985 The Thompson Twins faded into obscurity although they had top 75 hits from an album which must have got some airplay at the time, they were great in the 83-85 period from what I saw on totp. Love when a classic song like Something Inside So Strong appears - always thought it was so timeless it was released years and years ago and was t just written in the 80s!
April 4, 20196 yr Author Quite sad how post 1985 The Thompson Twins faded into obscurity although they had top 75 hits from an album which must have got some airplay at the time, they were great in the 83-85 period from what I saw on totp. Love when a classic song like Something Inside So Strong appears - always thought it was so timeless it was released years and years ago and was t just written in the 80s! Hi Steve! :) I recently downloaded that Kurtis Blow track as I never managed to buy it at the time. Ah memories :lol: Yes a shame about TTT fizzling out, they had a good run of singles, and that Labi Siffre song was great - I think Graceland had a big impact on anything South African sounding cool which brought Labi back to the charts, quite rightly too he was always fab! I still prefer his version of It Must Be Love over Madness' admittedly also fab version.
April 4, 20196 yr Author 31st March 1987 It's 3 weeks on top for the late Jackie Wilson as Prince threatens to get his first chart-topper at 2 with the awesome Sign 'O The Times. Billy Idol gets a 5th top 10, and Hot Choc remix their 1978 terrific riff-laden Winner back in at 8, top 10 for the second time. Ferry Aid means one Beatle song in, one out, of the 10 and Herb Alpert gets his 3rd top 10, one for each decade. Rod Stewart brings Sailing back into the 20 for the 3rd time, I have no idea why, Tina Turner goes top 40, and Fleetwood Mac drop the first single to their great comeback album Tango In The Night, Big Love at 28. Boy George's version of Ken Boothe's cover of Bread's Everything I Own plummets, as Ken enters at 29 13 years on. U2 finally go top 40, Peter Gabriel grabs another shot at the Big Time too, and FYC return all Buzzcocky, Siouxsie rides along, and The Pretenders also go top 40 for a very much '78/'79 theme, along with The Whispers coming back new at 48 with 1980 top 10 And The Beat Goes On. Future 90's oldie smash, Crazy, from Patsy Cline enters at 50 20-odd years after she died in a plane crash, following a terrific vintage clip on The Tube I think, and veteran 60's World Music star charter Hugh Masekela is also back with new material keeping the anti-apartheid theme strong in the chart. That leaves Kool & The Gang sneaking in for a last time (probably) and The Stranglers Shakin' Life A Leaf, probably for the same reason. 1 ( 1 ) I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING Jackie Wilson 2 ( 5 ) SIGN O’ THE TIMES Prince 3 ( 7 ) RESPECT YOURSELF Bruce Willis 4 ( 2 ) LA ISLA BONITA Madonna 5 ( 4 ) RESPECTABLE Mel & Kim 6 ( 8 ) WEAK IN THE PRESENCE OF BEAUTY Alison Moyet 7 ( 16 ) DON’T NEED A GUN Billy Idol 8 ( NEW ) EVERYONE’S A WINNER (REMIX) Hot Chocolate 9 ( 24 ) LET IT BE Ferry Aid 10 ( 12 ) KEEP YOUR EYE ON ME Herb Alpert 11 ( 11 ) WHAT’S GOING ON Cyndi Lauper 12 ( 3 ) PENNY LANE/STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER The Beatles 13 ( 6 ) STAND BY ME Ben E. King 14 ( 18 ) LEAN ON ME Club Nouveau 15 ( 19 ) (SOMETHING INSIDE) SO STRONG Labi Siffre 16 ( 17 ) LET MY PEOPLE GOGO The Rainmakers 17 ( 9 ) THE MAGICIAN Secession 18 ( 13 ) FORGOTTEN TOWN The Christians 19 ( NEW ) SAILING Rod Stewart 20 ( 30 ) SEVERINA The Mission 21 ( 10 ) WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN Percy Sledge 22 ( 15 ) I KNEW YOU WERE WAITING (FOR ME) Aretha Franklin & George Michael 23 ( 26 ) IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE Erasure 24 ( 32 ) LET’S WAIT AWHILE Janet Jackson 25 ( 46 ) WHAT YOU GET IS WHAT YOU SEE Tina Turner 26 ( 14 ) (YOU GOTTA) FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY The Beastie Boys 27 ( 29 ) JIMMY LEE Aretha Franklin 28 ( NEW ) BIG LOVE Fleetwood Mac 29 ( NEW ) EVERYTHING I OWN Ken Boothe 30 ( 20 ) LIVE IT UP Mental As Anything 31 ( 42 ) WITH OR WITHOUT YOU U2 32 ( 62 ) BIG TIME Peter Gabriel 33 ( 35 ) LOVING YOU IS SWEETER THAN EVER Nick Kamen 34 ( 31 ) MALE STRIPPER Man 2 Man Meet Parrish 35 ( 36 ) SHIP OF FOOLS World Party 36 ( 25 ) CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION ’87 T.Rex 37 ( 22 ) MANHATTAN SKYLINE a-ha 38 ( 60 ) EVER FALLEN IN LOVE Fine Young Cannibals 39 ( 64 ) MY BABY The Pretenders 40 ( 50 ) THE PASSENGER Siouxsie & The Banshees 41 ( 28 ) COMING AROUND AGAIN Carly Simon 42 ( 43 ) YOU’RE THE VOICE John Farnham 43 ( 33 ) MISSIONARY MAN Eurythmics 44 ( 38 ) I’D RATHER GO BLIND Ruby Turner 45 ( 27 ) SONIC BOOM BOY Westworld 46 ( 69 ) IF YOU LET ME STAY Terence Trent D’Arby 47 ( 47 ) HOOKED ON LOVE Dead Or Alive 48 ( NEW ) AND THE BEAT GOES ON The Whispers 49 ( 44 ) YOU SEXY THING (BEN LIEBRAND REMIX) Hot Chocolate 50 ( NEW ) CRAZY Patsy Cline 51 ( 21 ) EVERYTHING I OWN Boy George 52 ( 52 ) TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT Genesis 53 ( 23 ) PLEASE YOURSELF The Big Supreme 54 ( 39 ) CRUSH ON YOU The Jets 55 ( 55 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 56 ( 49 ) IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY The Blow Monkeys 57 ( 66 ) SELA Lionel Richie 58 ( 34 ) THE GREAT PRETENDER Freddie Mercury 59 ( 53 ) SOMEBODY’S COMING Little Richard 60 ( 56 ) OPEN YOUR HEART Madonna 61 ( 59 ) HUMAN Human League 62 ( NEW ) BRING HIM BACK HOME Hugh Masekela 63 ( 63 ) AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Diana Ross 64 ( 37 ) LIKE FLAMES Berlin 65 ( 65 ) TAKE US BACK David Grant 66 ( 48 ) YOU ARE MY WORLD ’87 The Communards 67 ( 54 ) BEST KEPT SECRET China Crisis 68 ( 40 ) WATCHING THE WILDLIFE Frankie Goes To Hollywood 69 ( 68 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 70 ( 72 ) JUST TO SEE HER Smokey Robinson 71 ( 75 ) GET THAT LOVE The Thompson Twins 72 ( RE ) WISHING I WAS LUCKY Wet Wet Wet 73 ( 73 ) TRUE BLUE Madonna 74 ( NEW ) STONE LOVE Kool And The Gang 75 ( NEW ) SHAKIN’ LIKE A LEAF The Stranglers FAVE OLDIES OF THE WEEK 1 THING Edwina Biglet & The Miglets 2 LOVING YOU AIN’T EASY Pagliaro 3 WEEKEND Alvin Stardust
April 4, 20196 yr Hi Steve! :) I recently downloaded that Kurtis Blow track as I never managed to buy it at the time. Ah memories :lol: Yes a shame about TTT fizzling out, they had a good run of singles, and that Labi Siffre song was great - I think Graceland had a big impact on anything South African sounding cool which brought Labi back to the charts, quite rightly too he was always fab! I still prefer his version of It Must Be Love over Madness' admittedly also fab version. I didn't realise he wrote the original of that, must check it out!!
April 11, 20196 yr Author 7th April 1987 It's a quartet of chart-toppers for Madonna from the True Blue album, something only Abba had managed previously (Voulez-Vous was the album). That holds off Prince in runners-up again, though he would top with it at last after his untimely death in 2016. Labi Siffre gets his first top 10 since Watch Me in 1972, Rod Stewart finally makes the top 10 12 years late (The Sutherland Brothers original from 1972 was WAY better), and U2 finally get cracking with a huge jump to 11 for With Or Without You. Ken Boothe gets a second-time top 20 with the same song. Dead Or Alive keep the top 40 run going, Terence Trent D'Arby gets his first, and David Grant gets a big climb into the 40 7 years since he was in Linx with You're Lying. High new entries from Julian Cope (Eve's Volcano explodes at 33) Gary Numan combines with Radio Heart for an 8-year run since he started with a Tubeway Army chart-topper, and Bowie enters at 40 with Day-In Day-Out, one of those rare occasions when he was slagged off by the rock media for both the album and the Glass Spider tour. I rather liked the singles off the album, and saw the tour from right at the back of Wembley Stadium - a bit like being at the back of a big outdoor rock festival where people talking at the side of you dominate more than the busy stuff going on in the far distance. It was a bit self-indulgent, and the new album was plugged heavily, sadly, I wanted the great stuff. Starship pop in with a classic 80's anthem at 50, though I still prefer the Jefferson and Grace Slick versions from 1980, or the Jefferson Airplane 60's versions. Kim Wilde does a duet with Junior, which gives them both some chart comeback action nicely, she's still fab in concert to this day, and The Cure return with Why Can't I Be You - for me this was the point at which they lost the quirkiness and got all serious and Big In America. Whitesnake return with the Rock, Steve Miller Band get a 13-year chart-span, albeit it ain't no The Joker. Or Rock'n'Me. Or Abracadabra. Down the tail end returns from 4 current chart acts of the time. 1 ( 4 ) LA ISLA BONITA Madonna 2 ( 2 ) SIGN O’ THE TIMES Prince 3 ( 1 ) I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING Jackie Wilson 4 ( 9 ) LET IT BE Ferry Aid 5 ( 3 ) RESPECT YOURSELF Bruce Willis 6 ( 8 ) EVERYONE’S A WINNER (REMIX) Hot Chocolate 7 ( 15 ) (SOMETHING INSIDE) SO STRONG Labi Siffre 8 ( 16 ) LET MY PEOPLE GOGO The Rainmakers 9 ( 19 ) SAILING Rod Stewart 10 ( 10 ) KEEP YOUR EYE ON ME Herb Alpert 11 ( 31 ) WITH OR WITHOUT YOU U2 12 ( 14 ) LEAN ON ME Club Nouveau 13 ( 7 ) DON’T NEED A GUN Billy Idol 14 ( 6 ) WEAK IN THE PRESENCE OF BEAUTY Alison Moyet 15 ( 5 ) RESPECTABLE Mel & Kim 16 ( 24 ) LET’S WAIT AWHILE Janet Jackson 17 ( 17 ) THE MAGICIAN Secession 18 ( 29 ) EVERYTHING I OWN Ken Boothe 19 ( 13 ) STAND BY ME Ben E. King 20 ( 12 ) PENNY LANE/STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER The Beatles 21 ( 11 ) WHAT’S GOING ON Cyndi Lauper 22 ( 20 ) SEVERINA The Mission 23 ( 28 ) BIG LOVE Fleetwood Mac 24 ( 18 ) FORGOTTEN TOWN The Christians 25 ( 21 ) WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN Percy Sledge 26 ( 32 ) BIG TIME Peter Gabriel 27 ( 22 ) I KNEW YOU WERE WAITING (FOR ME) Aretha Franklin & George Michael 28 ( 38 ) EVER FALLEN IN LOVE Fine Young Cannibals 29 ( 47 ) HOOKED ON LOVE Dead Or Alive 30 ( 46 ) IF YOU LET ME STAY Terence Trent D’Arby 31 ( 26 ) (YOU GOTTA) FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY The Beastie Boys 32 ( 25 ) WHAT YOU GET IS WHAT YOU SEE Tina Turner 33 ( NEW ) EVE’S VOLCANO Julian Cope 34 ( 42 ) YOU’RE THE VOICE John Farnham 35 ( 27 ) JIMMY LEE Aretha Franklin 36 ( 39 ) MY BABY The Pretenders 37 ( NEW ) RADIO HEART Radio Heart & Gary Numan 38 ( 40 ) THE PASSENGER Siouxsie & The Banshees 39 ( 65 ) TAKE ME BACK David Grant 40 ( NEW ) DAY-IN DAY-OUT David Bowie 41 ( 33 ) LOVING YOU IS SWEETER THAN EVER Nick Kamen 42 ( 36 ) CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION ’87 T.Rex 43 ( 34 ) MALE STRIPPER Man 2 Man Meet Parrish 44 ( 48 ) AND THE BEAT GOES ON The Whispers 45 ( 23 ) IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE Erasure 46 ( 35 ) SHIP OF FOOLS World Party 47 ( 72 ) WISHING I WAS LUCKY Wet Wet Wet 48 ( 50 ) CRAZY Patsy Cline 49 ( 52 ) TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT Genesis 50 ( NEW ) NOTHING’S GONNA STOP US NOW Starship 51 ( 30 ) LIVE IT UP Mental As Anything 52 ( 49 ) YOU SEXY THING (BEN LIEBRAND REMIX) Hot Chocolate 53 ( 43 ) MISSIONARY MAN Eurythmics 54 ( 41 ) COMING AROUND AGAIN Carly Simon 55 ( 62 ) BRING HIM BACK HOME Hugh Masekela 56 ( 55 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 57 ( 57 ) SELA Lionel Richie 58 ( 37 ) MANHATTAN SKYLINE a-ha 59 ( NEW ) CRAWFISH Stan Campbell 60 ( NEW ) ANOTHER STEP (CLOSER TO YOU) Kim Wilde & Junior 61 ( 60 ) OPEN YOUR HEART Madonna 62 ( NEW ) WHY CAN’T I BE YOU The Cure 63 ( 61 ) HUMAN Human League 64 ( 63 ) AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Diana Ross 65 ( 70 ) JUST TO SEE HER Smokey Robinson 66 ( NEW ) STILL OF THE NIGHT Whitesnake 67 ( 56 ) IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY The Blow Monkeys 68 ( NEW ) I WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD TURN AROUND The Steve Miller Band 69 ( 59 ) SOMEBODY’S COMING Little Richard 70 ( 69 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 71 ( NEW ) CAN’T BE WITH YOU TONIGHT Judy Boucher 72 ( NEW ) DOMINOES Robbie Nevil 73 ( 73 ) TRUE BLUE Madonna 74 ( NEW ) ORDINARY DAY Curiosity Killed The Cat 75 ( NEW ) OUT WITH HER The Blow Monkeys 7th April PLAYIST OLDIES 1 CHUNG KUO Vangelis 2 NATHALIE Gilbert Becaud 3 LOVING YOU AIN’T EASY Pagliaro
April 17, 20196 yr Great holiday tune as your #1. 'Dominoes' definitely should have done better, very good tune and I think it is has become more of classic (is still played more nowadays) than than 'C'est la Vie'. 'Radio Heart' is perhaps the only mainstream sounding single Gary Numan was on. Good song anyway, although I prefer his collaboration 'No More Lies' with Sharpe in early 1988. 'Tonight, Tonight, Tonight' is certainly one of my favourite songs from Genesis, it is quite atmospheric. Edited April 18, 20196 yr by TheSnake
April 19, 20196 yr Author Great holiday tune as your #1. 'Dominoes' definitely should have done better, very good tune and I think it is has become more of classic (is still played more nowadays) than than 'C'est la Vie'. 'Radio Heart' is perhaps the only mainstream sounding single Gary Numan was on. Good song anyway, although I prefer his collaboration 'No More Lies' with Sharpe in early 1988. 'Tonight, Tonight, Tonight' is certainly one of my favourite songs from Genesis, it is quite atmospheric. Hi Snakey, glad you like Madonna on top :) Dominoes was a goodie - though it dropped out for a few weeks for some reason, I'm guessing I caught an advance play before it got playlisted, but it'll be back! Yes Gazza Numan was off on his voyage of metalsynth discovery that is still ongoing - I much prefer his more synthpop and synthdance collabs. I saw him a few years back and it was half and half, the early stuff I liked and the later stuff which passed me by unmoved. Genesis had to work hard to convince me in the later 80's, though they were never bad as such, I tended to assume they would be meh before I heard the track. cheers! John
April 19, 20196 yr Author 14th April 1987 It's 3 weeks on top for Madonna and 3 weeks at 2 for Prince as Hot Chocolate take their 1978 number 3 back to 3 in remix format. Lean On Me makes the top 10 for the 3rd act, since topping for Bill Withers in 1972. There are big climbs for John Farnham, Wet Wet Wet, Radio Heart & Gary Numan into the 20, and Starship into the 30. Highest new entry is Living In A Box debuting at 32 with their brilliant eponymous song just ahead of OMD keeping the run of top 40 hits at 7 years, and that's not a Shame. Johnny Hates Jazz debut and start a good run of singles with the great Shattered Dreams at 42, with the cool Sly & Robbie having a hit in their own right, the quirky Boops, rather than being backroom producers, in at 43. Elvis is back with another oldie, this time the fun Bossa Nova Baby from one of my fave childhood Elvis films, Fun In Acapulco (the title track was my brothers first-ever single he bought in 1969) and was another Lieber & Stoller song, one of many he recorded. Five Star & Bon Jovi follow-up, That Petrol Emotion debut, the SOS Band keep the revival going, The Smiths bow out, and Elkie Brooks tries to break the chain. One thing I've noticed, in terms of highlighting which tracks I remain eternally loving, the best guide isn't chart position of songs at the time they were hits - it's the tracks that crop-up in my weekly playlist faves of the week, by and large oldies that I loved years after the event remain faves forever more, while big faves of a moment in time can suffer from overplay or being "of their time". My fave current tracks in the 1987 chart these days is Prince, which didn't top my chart then, and Living In A Box, which did. While U2 peaked at 11, and is very much a classic that took years to grown on me properly. 1 ( 1 ) LA ISLA BONITA Madonna 2 ( 2 ) SIGN O’ THE TIMES Prince 3 ( 6 ) EVERYONE’S A WINNER (REMIX) Hot Chocolate 4 ( 4 ) LET IT BE Ferry Aid 5 ( 7 ) (SOMETHING INSIDE) SO STRONG Labi Siffre 6 ( 3 ) I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING Jackie Wilson 7 ( 10 ) KEEP YOUR EYE ON ME Herb Alpert 8 ( 8 ) LET MY PEOPLE GOGO The Rainmakers 9 ( 5 ) RESPECT YOURSELF Bruce Willis 10 ( 12 ) LEAN ON ME Club Nouveau 11 ( 34 ) YOU’RE THE VOICE John Farnham 12 ( 16 ) LET’S WAIT AWHILE Janet Jackson 13 ( 30 ) IF YOU LET ME STAY Terence Trent D’Arby 14 ( 13 ) DON’T NEED A GUN Billy Idol 15 ( 28 ) EVER FALLEN IN LOVE Fine Young Cannibals 16 ( 11 ) WITH OR WITHOUT YOU U2 17 ( 47 ) WISHING I WAS LUCKY Wet Wet Wet 18 ( 37 ) RADIO HEART Radio Heart & Gary Numan 19 ( 14 ) WEAK IN THE PRESENCE OF BEAUTY Alison Moyet 20 ( 26 ) BIG TIME Peter Gabriel 21 ( 18 ) EVERYTHING I OWN Ken Boothe 22 ( 33 ) EVE’S VOLCANO Julian Cope 23 ( 23 ) BIG LOVE Fleetwood Mac 24 ( 15 ) RESPECTABLE Mel & Kim 25 ( 19 ) STAND BY ME Ben E. King 26 ( 17 ) THE MAGICIAN Secession 27 ( 50 ) NOTHING’S GONNA STOP US NOW Starship 28 ( 20 ) PENNY LANE/STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER The Beatles 29 ( 29 ) HOOKED ON LOVE Dead Or Alive 30 ( 40 ) DAY-IN DAY-OUT David Bowie 31 ( 9 ) SAILING Rod Stewart 32 ( NEW ) LIVING IN A BOX Living In A Box 33 ( 27 ) I KNEW YOU WERE WAITING (FOR ME) Aretha Franklin & George Michael 34 ( 36 ) MY BABY The Pretenders 35 ( 21 ) WHAT’S GOING ON Cyndi Lauper 36 ( 38 ) THE PASSENGER Siouxsie & The Banshees 37 ( 24 ) FORGOTTEN TOWN The Christians 38 ( 25 ) WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN Percy Sledge 39 ( 71 ) CAN’T BE WITH YOU TONIGHT Judy Boucher 40 ( NEW ) SHAME OMD 41 ( 22 ) SEVERINA The Mission 42 ( NEW ) SHATTERED DREAMS Johnny Hates Jazz 43 ( NEW ) BOOPS (HERE TO GO) Sly & Robbie 44 ( 39 ) TAKE ME BACK David Grant 45 ( 31 ) (YOU GOTTA) FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY The Beastie Boys 46 ( 75 ) OUT WITH HER The Blow Monkeys 47 ( 42 ) CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION ’87 T.Rex 48 ( 55 ) BRING HIM BACK HOME Hugh Masekela 49 ( 62 ) WHY CAN’T I BE YOU The Cure 50 ( 65 ) JUST TO SEE HER Smokey Robinson 51 ( 43 ) MALE STRIPPER Man 2 Man Meet Parrish 52 ( 32 ) WHAT YOU GET IS WHAT YOU SEE Tina Turner 53 ( 60 ) ANOTHER STEP (CLOSER TO YOU) Kim Wilde & Junior 54 ( NEW ) SERIOUS Donna Allen 55 ( 52 ) YOU SEXY THING (BEN LIEBRAND REMIX) Hot Chocolate 56 ( 56 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 57 ( NEW ) BOSSA NOVA BABY Elvis Presley 58 ( 46 ) SHIP OF FOOLS World Party 59 ( NEW ) THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH Five Star 60 ( 66 ) STILL OF THE NIGHT Whitesnake 61 ( NEW ) WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE Bon Jovi 62 ( 61 ) OPEN YOUR HEART Madonna 63 ( 64 ) AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Diana Ross 64 ( 63 ) HUMAN Human League 65 ( NEW ) ALONE AGAIN OR The Damned 66 ( 35 ) JIMMY LEE Aretha Franklin 67 ( 53 ) MISSIONARY MAN Eurythmics 68 ( NEW ) BIG DECISION That Petrol Emotion 69 ( 54 ) COMING AROUND AGAIN Carly Simon 70 ( 70 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 71 ( 74 ) ORDINARY DAY Curiosity Killed The Cat 72 ( NEW ) MY LIES The SOS Band 73 ( NEW ) SHEILA TAKE A BOW The Smiths 74 ( 58 ) MANHATTAN SKYLINE a-ha 75 ( NEW ) BREAK THE CHAIN Elkie Brooks Playlist Oldies of that week 1 I STARTED A JOKE The Bee Gees 2 FIRST OF MAY The Bee Gees 3 LIVIN’ THING ELO
April 26, 20196 yr Author 21st April 1987 It's a first week on top, and straight in, for 1964 oldie Move Over Darling, Doris Day's classic theme to the movie of the same name, of her best and areal feel-good fave of mine as a boy, adult, and right now too. Tracey Ullman had a hit with it a few years earlier too, but Doris' original is the best and charted all over again thanks to an advert. Living In A Box rocket into the ten, along with Wet Wet Wet and Terence Trent D'Arby all getting a top 10 debut. Crowded House enter with the top-notch classic Don't Dream It's Over, not the last time it would chart for the former NZ Split-Enz brothers, who had a few top 10's in the early 80's. Irish Rover is an old song, brought back by The Pogues - the presence of The Dubliners put me off, as they were responsible for one of the records of my childhood that used to annoy me (Seven Drunken Nights), but it's not bad and also into the 30. Down the bottom end 60's legend Tom Jones is back with a theatrical big ballad, and three country girls join as a Trio for a cover of the 50's song To Know Him Is To Love Him. The late Warren Zevon is in with his fab Werewolves Of London, and Latin Quarter keep on being right on again with another newie. 1 ( NEW ) MOVE OVER DARLING Doris Day 2 ( 1 ) LA ISLA BONITA Madonna 3 ( 7 ) KEEP YOUR EYE ON ME Herb Alpert 4 ( 8 ) LET MY PEOPLE GOGO The Rainmakers 5 ( 5 ) (SOMETHING INSIDE) SO STRONG Labi Siffre 6 ( 32 ) LIVING IN A BOX Living In A Box 7 ( 17 ) WISHING I WAS LUCKY Wet Wet Wet 8 ( 13 ) IF YOU LET ME STAY Terence Trent D’Arby 9 ( 2 ) SIGN O’ THE TIMES Prince 10 ( 3 ) EVERYONE’S A WINNER (REMIX) Hot Chocolate 11 ( 15 ) EVER FALLEN IN LOVE Fine Young Cannibals 12 ( 6 ) I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING Jackie Wilson 13 ( 18 ) RADIO HEART Radio Heart & Gary Numan 14 ( 11 ) YOU’RE THE VOICE John Farnham 15 ( 9 ) RESPECT YOURSELF Bruce Willis 16 ( 22 ) EVE’S VOLCANO Julian Cope 17 ( 27 ) NOTHING’S GONNA STOP US NOW Starship 18 ( 12 ) LET’S WAIT AWHILE Janet Jackson 19 ( 23 ) BIG LOVE Fleetwood Mac 20 ( 10 ) LEAN ON ME Club Nouveau 21 ( 4 ) LET IT BE Ferry Aid 22 ( 16 ) WITH OR WITHOUT YOU U2 23 ( NEW ) DON’T DREAM IT’S OVER Crowded House 24 ( 14 ) DON’T NEED A GUN Billy Idol 25 ( NEW ) IRISH ROVER The Pogues & The Dubliners 26 ( 30 ) DAY-IN DAY-OUT David Bowie 27 ( 25 ) STAND BY ME Ben E. King 28 ( 65 ) ALONE AGAIN OR The Damned 29 ( 19 ) WEAK IN THE PRESENCE OF BEAUTY Alison Moyet 30 ( 42 ) SHATTERED DREAMS Johnny Hates Jazz 31 ( 20 ) BIG TIME Peter Gabriel 32 ( 49 ) WHY CAN’T I BE YOU The Cure 33 ( 43 ) BOOPS (HERE TO GO) Sly & Robbie 34 ( 28 ) PENNY LANE/STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER The Beatles 35 ( 39 ) CAN’T BE WITH YOU TONIGHT Judy Boucher 36 ( 33 ) I KNEW YOU WERE WAITING (FOR ME) Aretha Franklin & George Michael 37 ( 37 ) FORGOTTEN TOWN The Christians 38 ( 40 ) SHAME OMD 39 ( 24 ) RESPECTABLE Mel & Kim 40 ( 53 ) ANOTHER STEP (CLOSER TO YOU) Kim Wilde & Junior 41 ( 58 ) SHIP OF FOOLS World Party 42 ( 54 ) SERIOUS Donna Allen 43 ( 26 ) THE MAGICIAN Secession 44 ( 38 ) WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN Percy Sledge 45 ( 68 ) BIG DECISION That Petrol Emotion 46 ( 72 ) MY LIES The SOS Band 47 ( NEW ) SUPER POPOID GROOVE Win 48 ( 35 ) WHAT’S GOING ON Cyndi Lauper 49 ( 59 ) THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH Five Star 50 ( 21 ) EVERYTHING I OWN Ken Boothe 51 ( 61 ) WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE Bon Jovi 52 ( NEW ) SEE ME Luther Vandross 53 ( 47 ) CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION ’87 T.Rex 54 ( 51 ) MALE STRIPPER Man 2 Man Meet Parrish 55 ( 57 ) BOSSA NOVA BABY Elvis Presley 56 ( 56 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 57 ( 29 ) HOOKED ON LOVE Dead Or Alive 58 ( 60 ) STILL OF THE NIGHT Whitesnake 59 ( 46 ) OUT WITH HER The Blow Monkeys 60 ( 36 ) THE PASSENGER Siouxsie & The Banshees 61 ( 55 ) YOU SEXY THING (BEN LIEBRAND REMIX) Hot Chocolate 62 ( 34 ) MY BABY The Pretenders 63 ( 41 ) SEVERINA The Mission 64 ( 62 ) OPEN YOUR HEART Madonna 65 ( 63 ) AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Diana Ross 66 ( 64 ) HUMAN Human League 67 ( 73 ) SHEILA TAKE A BOW The Smiths 68 ( 31 ) SAILING Rod Stewart 69 ( NEW ) A BOY FROM NOWHERE Tom Jones 70 ( NEW ) TO KNOW HIM IS TO LOVE HIM Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt 71 ( 45 ) (YOU GOTTA) FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY The Beastie Boys 72 ( 70 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 73 ( NEW ) WEREWOLVES OF LONDON Warren Zevon 74 ( NEW ) TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN Level 42 75 ( NEW ) NOMZAMO (ONE PEOPLE ONE CAUSE) Latin Quarter Playlist oldies of the week 1 ON MY OWN Patti Labelle & Michael MacDonald 2 SARA Fleetwood Mac 3 YOU JUST MAY BE THE ONE The Monkees
May 2, 20196 yr Author 28th April 1987 It's back up on top for La Isla Bonita giving Madonna 3 weeks in total, as Doris drops to 3 and Herb Alpert gets his 2nd equal-biggest chart position 19 years on from This Guy's In Love, and thanks to Jam & Lewis. Starship get a second top 10, though they Jefferson's when Jane did it in 1980, John Farnham gets his first since Little River Band's 1979 Lonesome Loser, Fine Young Cannibals get Buzzcocks a top 10 song at last with Ever fallen In Love, and Gary Numan gets his 7th top 10 8 years since Are 'Friends' Electric topped. The Damned get a good top 20 climb with the Love classic, OMD leap up even more, not a Shame! Two footballers get the highest new entry, not that footie meant anything much to me, and footie singers generally had dire results, but there you go, in at 33! The Smiths & Tom Jones get big climbs into the 40, and lower down Jaki Graham keeps the string of hits coming, Slade have a final chart entry after a whopping chart run of 16 years, Paul Simon sneaks in with his album title track - never a huge fave of mine off the album - and Cameo keep coming Back & Forth. 1 ( 2 ) LA ISLA BONITA Madonna 2 ( 3 ) KEEP YOUR EYE ON ME Herb Alpert 3 ( 1 ) MOVE OVER DARLING Doris Day 4 ( 6 ) LIVING IN A BOX Living In A Box 5 ( 5 ) (SOMETHING INSIDE) SO STRONG Labi Siffre 6 ( 7 ) WISHING I WAS LUCKY Wet Wet Wet 7 ( 17 ) NOTHING’S GONNA STOP US NOW Starship 8 ( 14 ) YOU’RE THE VOICE John Farnham 9 ( 11 ) EVER FALLEN IN LOVE Fine Young Cannibals 10 ( 13 ) RADIO HEART Radio Heart & Gary Numan 11 ( 4 ) LET MY PEOPLE GOGO The Rainmakers 12 ( 8 ) IF YOU LET ME STAY Terence Trent D’Arby 13 ( 9 ) SIGN O’ THE TIMES Prince 14 ( 10 ) EVERYONE’S A WINNER (REMIX) Hot Chocolate 15 ( 28 ) ALONE AGAIN OR The Damned 16 ( 12 ) I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING Jackie Wilson 17 ( 19 ) BIG LOVE Fleetwood Mac 18 ( 23 ) DON’T DREAM IT’S OVER Crowded House 19 ( 38 ) SHAME OMD 20 ( 30 ) SHATTERED DREAMS Johnny Hates Jazz 21 ( 16 ) EVE’S VOLCANO Julian Cope 22 ( 15 ) RESPECT YOURSELF Bruce Willis 23 ( 26 ) DAY-IN DAY-OUT David Bowie 24 ( 22 ) WITH OR WITHOUT YOU U2 25 ( 25 ) IRISH ROVER The Pogues & The Dubliners 26 ( 18 ) LET’S WAIT AWHILE Janet Jackson 27 ( 40 ) ANOTHER STEP (CLOSER TO YOU) Kim Wilde & Junior 28 ( 45 ) BIG DECISION That Petrol Emotion 29 ( 35 ) CAN’T BE WITH YOU TONIGHT Judy Boucher 30 ( 33 ) BOOPS (HERE TO GO) Sly & Robbie 31 ( 20 ) LEAN ON ME Club Nouveau 32 ( 24 ) DON’T NEED A GUN Billy Idol 33 ( NEW ) DIAMOND LIGHTS Glen & Chris 34 ( 27 ) STAND BY ME Ben E. King 35 ( 46 ) NO LIES The SOS Band 36 ( 42 ) SERIOUS Donna Allen 37 ( 37 ) FORGOTTEN TOWN The Christians 38 ( 49 ) THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH Five Star 39 ( 67 ) SHEILA TAKE A BOW The Smiths 40 ( 69 ) A BOY FROM NOWHERE Tom Jones 41 ( 32 ) WHY CAN’T I BE YOU The Cure 42 ( 36 ) I KNEW YOU WERE WAITING (FOR ME) Aretha Franklin & George Michael 43 ( 47 ) SUPER POPOID GROOVE Win 44 ( 41 ) SHIP OF FOOLS World Party 45 ( 34 ) PENNY LANE/STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER The Beatles 46 ( NEW ) REAL FASHION REGGAE STYLE Carey Johnson 47 ( 29 ) WEAK IN THE PRESENCE OF BEAUTY Alison Moyet 48 ( NEW ) STILL IN LOVE Jaki Graham 49 ( 39 ) RESPECTABLE Mel & Kim 50 ( NEW ) YOU’RE SO STRONG Mental As Anything 51 ( 51 ) WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE Bon Jovi 52 ( 44 ) WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN Percy Sledge 53 ( 31 ) BIG TIME Peter Gabriel 54 ( 21 ) LET IT BE Ferry Aid 55 ( 43 ) THE MAGICIAN Secession 56 ( 56 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 57 ( 48 ) WHAT’S GOING ON Cyndi Lauper 58 ( 53 ) CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION ’87 T.Rex 59 ( NEW ) THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Slade 60 ( NEW ) NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE Spear Of Destiny 61 ( 52 ) SEE ME Luther Vandross 62 ( 54 ) MALE STRIPPER Man 2 Man Meet Parrish 63 ( 50 ) EVERYTHING I OWN Ken Boothe 64 ( 61 ) YOU SEXY THING (BEN LIEBRAND REMIX) Hot Chocolate 65 ( 65 ) AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Diana Ross 66 ( 66 ) HUMAN Human League 67 ( 64 ) OPEN YOUR HEART Madonna 68 ( NEW ) DOMINOES Robbie Nevil 69 ( 55 ) BOSSA NOVA BABY Elvis Presley 70 ( 74 ) TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN Level 42 71 ( NEW ) GRACELAND Paul Simon 72 ( 72 ) E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 73 ( 73 ) WEREWOLVES OF LONDON Warren Zevon 74 ( NEW ) BACK AND FORTH Cameo 75 ( NEW ) EMOTIONAL Falco Oldies Playlist 1 LONG TIME Arrow 2 HEY NINETEEN Steely Dan 3 JOHNNY REMEMBER ME John Leyton
May 3, 20196 yr Author 5th May 1987 It's a 17-place climb to claim a first chart-topper for Crowded House and their gorgeous Don't Dream It's Over, beating I Got You's peak of 2 in 1980 for Split-Enz, as the Finn Brothers used to be known (more or less), and keeping Living In A Box off the top spot to boot. Ben E. King gets a second oldies top 10 with a 26 year-old track, this time the fabulous Spanish Harlem which had gone top 5 for Aretha Franklin in 1971, the later of many 60's covers of the song. The Damned get a second top 10 with the 1968 Love classic, and the highest actual new song is from Jesus And Mary Chain and the trippy-goth of April Skies at 27, sort of melodic distorted metal a la The Velvet Underground. Tom Jones leapfrogs a pair of footballers as both climb fast into the 20, Tom having been there many times before in the 60's and early 70's, but rarely since, Kiss being the most recent career-resurrecting instance. Falco has a massive climb for his 3rd hit - one I've forgotten, but obviously liked being Emotional about it. Level 42 also climb high into the 40 along with Elvis' reactivated Bossa Nova Baby, and a chart debut for the tongue-in-cheek Glam-metal Zodiac Mindwarp at 38 as he's a Prime Mover. It's a huge influx of new entries lower down, Europe are back, The Cult get a 3rd or 4th, Westworld follow-up, Swing Out Sister make it a hat-trick, The Armoury Show is another I've entirely forgotten, Jody Watley gets a solo comeback having left Shalamar never to return and Looking For A New Love. A clutch of covers then pop up, The Mint Juleps doing Robert Palmer's fab 1978 Every Kinda People, Gary Moore getting an 8th year of hits with his Easybeats cover (aka Flash & The Pan in later years, and the older-brother/producer of AC/DC's Young brothers), Toyah does Martha & The Muffins, and David Essex returns after a few years away with a Welsh 112-year-old song. Not the oldest song to chart ever, but it's up there in the list. David thus gets a 14-year run of hits since Rock On. Finally, two more solo hits for Paul King and Debbie Harry, Paul on his way to becoming an early VJ on satellite music stations when his music career stalls shortly after this, and Debbie carrying on where Blondie left off, for 9 years of charting, 6 years of solo hits, and another 30 years of both still to come. Legend! 1 ( 18 ) DON’T DREAM IT’S OVER Crowded House 2 ( 4 ) LIVING IN A BOX Living In A Box 3 ( 1 ) LA ISLA BONITA Madonna 4 ( 6 ) WISHING I WAS LUCKY Wet Wet Wet 5 ( 3 ) MOVE OVER DARLING Doris Day 6 ( 7 ) NOTHING’S GONNA STOP US NOW Starship 7 ( 5 ) (SOMETHING INSIDE) SO STRONG Labi Siffre 8 ( NEW ) SPANISH HARLEM Ben E. King 9 ( 15 ) ALONE AGAIN OR The Damned 10 ( 2 ) KEEP YOUR EYE ON ME Herb Alpert 11 ( 19 ) SHAME OMD 12 ( 20 ) SHATTERED DREAMS Johnny Hates Jazz 13 ( 17 ) BIG LOVE Fleetwood Mac 14 ( 28 ) BIG DECISION That Petrol Emotion 15 ( 40 ) A BOY FROM NOWHERE Tom Jones 16 ( 8 ) YOU’RE THE VOICE John Farnham 17 ( 33 ) DIAMOND LIGHTS Glen & Chris 18 ( 10 ) RADIO HEART Radio Heart & Gary Numan 19 ( 29 ) CAN’T BE WITH YOU TONIGHT Judy Boucher 20 ( 9 ) EVER FALLEN IN LOVE Fine Young Cannibals 21 ( 13 ) SIGN O’ THE TIMES Prince 22 ( 12 ) IF YOU LET ME STAY Terence Trent D’Arby 23 ( 16 ) I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING Jackie Wilson 24 ( 11 ) LET MY PEOPLE GOGO The Rainmakers 25 ( 27 ) ANOTHER STEP (CLOSER TO YOU) Kim Wilde & Junior 26 ( 21 ) EVE’S VOLCANO Julian Cope 27 ( NEW ) APRIL SKIES Jesus And Mary Chain 28 ( 38 ) THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH Five Star 29 ( 14 ) EVERYONE’S A WINNER (REMIX) Hot Chocolate 30 ( 39 ) SHEILA TAKE A BOW The Smiths 31 ( 75 ) EMOTIONAL Falco 32 ( 36 ) SERIOUS Donna Allen 33 ( 46 ) REAL FASHION REGGAE STYLE Carey Johnson 34 ( 70 ) TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN Level 42 35 ( 41 ) WHY CAN’T I BE YOU The Cure 36 ( 23 ) DAY-IN DAY-OUT David Bowie 37 ( 69 ) BOSSA NOVA BABY Elvis Presley 38 ( NEW ) PRIME MOVER Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction 39 ( 22 ) RESPECT YOURSELF Bruce Willis 40 ( 50 ) YOU’RE SO STRONG Mental As Anything 41 ( 30 ) BOOPS (HERE TO GO) Sly & Robbie 42 ( 37 ) FORGOTTEN TOWN The Christians 43 ( 34 ) STAND BY ME Ben E. King 44 ( 32 ) DON’T NEED A GUN Billy Idol 45 ( 24 ) WITH OR WITHOUT YOU U2 46 ( 25 ) IRISH ROVER The Pogues & The Dubliners 47 ( 42 ) I KNEW YOU WERE WAITING (FOR ME) Aretha Franklin & George Michael 48 ( 51 ) WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE Bon Jovi 49 ( 35 ) NO LIES The SOS Band 50 ( 26 ) LET’S WAIT AWHILE Janet Jackson 51 ( 45 ) PENNY LANE/STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER The Beatles 52 ( NEW ) CARRIE Europe 53 ( 60 ) NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE Spear Of Destiny 54 ( 48 ) STILL IN LOVE Jaki Graham 55 ( 44 ) SHIP OF FOOLS World Party 56 ( 56 ) A DIFFERENT CORNER George Michael 57 ( 52 ) WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN Percy Sledge 58 ( 68 ) DOMINOES Robbie Nevil 59 ( 59 ) THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Slade 60 ( NEW ) L’L DEVIL The Cult 61 ( 74 ) BACK AND FORTH Cameo 62 ( 31 ) LEAN ON ME Club Nouveau 63 ( NEW ) BA-NA-NA BAM BOO Westworld 64 ( NEW ) TWILIGHT WORLD Swing Out Sister 65 ( NEW ) NEW YORK CITY The Armoury Show 66 ( 66 ) HUMAN Human League 67 ( 65 ) AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Diana Ross 68 ( NEW ) LOOKING FOR A NEW LOVE Jody Watley 69 ( NEW ) EVERY KINDA PEOPLE The Mint Juleps 70 ( NEW ) FRIDAY ON MY MIND Gary Moore 71 ( NEW ) IN LOVE WITH LOVE Debbie Harry 72 ( NEW ) I KNOW Paul King 73 ( 57 ) WHAT’S GOING ON Cyndi Lauper 74 ( NEW ) MYFANWY David Essex 75 ( NEW ) ECHO BEACH Toyah 5th May PLAYIST OLDIES 1 DANNY’S SONG Anne Murray 2 SO THIS IS ROMANCE Linx 3 I STARTED A JOKE The Bee Gees
May 4, 20196 yr Author We’re in May, howwwww can Human still be there! I'm very loyal :lol: Prepare yourself for the bad news: it's going to hang in there for months yet as I continued to romantically sing and tearfully sniff along to it in my lonely bedroom :lol: The song pushes forgiveness - even for infidelity and a far too long chart-run :D
May 5, 20196 yr Living In A Box is a great tune, late 80s pop at its best, I did notice that it reminded me a bit of Colonel Abrams - Trapped production wise and I found out recently it has the same producer.
May 6, 20196 yr Author Living In A Box is a great tune, late 80s pop at its best, I did notice that it reminded me a bit of Colonel Abrams - Trapped production wise and I found out recently it has the same producer. Yes it's fab - Richard Burgess was in Landscape (Einstein A GoGo) apparently coined the phrase New Romantic and produced the first NR hit from Spandau Ballet. he was even on Tomorrow's World talking about fairlight sampling ahead of using it on Kate Bush album Never For Ever and Visage's Fade To Grey! I didn't know that! So he was in at the start of New Romantic/futurist and also House music with Trapped. Marcus Vere keyboardist on LIAB recently co-wrote some fab songs on the terrific sequel to Lexicon Of Love for ABC. Wikipedia is SO handy cos I didn't realise any of that till you mentioned the link (apart from knowing Richard Burgess was behind Landscape), so cheers! :wub:
May 6, 20196 yr I'm very loyal :lol: Prepare yourself for the bad news: it's going to hang in there for months yet as I continued to romantically sing and tearfully sniff along to it in my lonely bedroom :lol: The song pushes forgiveness - even for infidelity and a far too long chart-run :D It's such an amazing pop song and I will jump at any great HL track post 1983 because the 'classic' bands of that era seemed to flop hard post 1985 and we are left in that weird 1986-92 era when house came alongside pure cheese and metal bands going pop. I'm enjoying it but the 1979-84 era was the best and most creative in British music for me.
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