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The UK Top 40 singles of the 1980s: listening sessions + polls: next session 23 August

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Freddie Mercury - Love Kills

Adam Ant - Apollo 9

Giorgio Moroder With Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams

Eugene Wilde - Gotta Get You Home Tonight

ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'

Style Council, Kim Wilde, Sade, Chaka Khan, Billy Ocean and Limahl all just missed out

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    Best of Week 7 poll results 8 Adam And The Ants - Antmusic 8 Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry 6 Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short 5 Abba - Super Trouper 3 Blondie - The Tide Is High 3 Kate Bush

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    We had pencilled in this Sunday for the next session, however: It's a Bank Holiday weekend so people might have other plans The temperature will be 30C in London and other areas It's the final day o

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    We are back at 4pm tomorrow! Quite an accumulation of bonuses to get through in the first couple of sessions, but we'll still cover 7 weeks of 1983 in each.

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Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Tesla Girls

Nik Kershaw - Human Racing

Queen - Hammer To Fall

Freddie Mercury - Love Kills

The Cars - Drive

No room for Ultravox

The Cars - Drive ❤️

John Waite- Missing You ❤️

Lumahl- Never Ending Story

Sade- Smooth Operator

Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)

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Wham-Freedom (sorry George)

BronskiBeat- Why

Prince -Purple Rain

Chaka Khan- I Feel For You

Giorgio Moroder With Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams

Culture Club- Song

Spandau Ballet - Highly Strong

Kim Wilde- Second Time

Alison Moyet- All Cried Out

Ultravox-Loves Great Adventure

So hard to decide all songs are timeless

1984 the greatest year in Pop History

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    U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)

    Prince And The Revolution - Purple Rain

    Giorgio Moroder With Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams

    Chaka Khan - I Feel For You

    ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'

    On 16/08/2026 at 16:00, jimwatts said:

    Best of Week 33 poll results

    9 Prince - When Doves Cry

    8 George Michael - Careless Whisper

    8 Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly (Un Bel Di Vedremo)

    A brilliant top 3, such a tough week to get first place!

    Completely unrelated, but I just aced the music quiz on my hols with 100% score! Thanks in no small parts to you guys and these threads, giving me great revision sessions!

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    22 minutes ago, Suedehead2 said:

    Did you do an EMF RIP?

    Yes, one of five RIPs yesterday: The Goodies - Funky Gibbon; EMF - I Believe; Glen Hansard (& Markéta Irglová) - Falling Slowly; Kavinsky - Nightcall; William Orbit - Water From A Vine Leaf

    14 minutes ago, jimwatts said:

    Yes, one of five RIPs yesterday: The Goodies - Funky Gibbon; EMF - I Believe; Glen Hansard (& Markéta Irglová) - Falling Slowly; Kavinsky - Nightcall; William Orbit - Water From A Vine Leaf

    A depressingly long list sad

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