One of my favourite no.1’s
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Not sure, this was Wogan’s fault though. Good song actually.
Someone must have written a book that details the social and cultural history of the UK as reflected in the charts? I think just weird little trends like this are more fascinating than the big cultural impact stuff like punk.
Bob Stanley’s absolutely brilliant book Yeah Yeah Yeah touches on this. Highly recommended if you’ve not read it.
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Thanks. It’s one of those books I’ve been meaning to read for years. Might finally get round to it this Summer. Cheers.
It’s one of the best music books I’ve read - passionate, informative and often laugh out loud funny.
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And for a wedge of a book, it absolutely flies by
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Ah, Rory Bremner’s Paul Hardcastle spoof (secretly produced by Hardcastle himself) about the 1984 England vs West Indies Test series! Great pop never ages.
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“Side on”
I have no recollection of ‘Come to Milton Keynes’ by Style Council, are you sure it’s real?
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It was the Country House of its day, kind of.
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It bothers me that the scoreboard makes no sense
This must have been the week I had my very first adult kiss. End of term school disco, Madonna’s Crazy For You
”Two by two their bodies become one” … Claire Andrews went in, open mouthed & who was I to turn that down?
I later found out that she’d already snogged a couple of the French exchange lads in the year above & I was very hurt
I’m over it now though
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Memories. I reckon 1985 is the first year I started obsessing over the charts.
Gary Davies used to do the big reveal on Monday or Tuesday lunchtime, didn’t he?
Man, I thought Axel F was the pinnacle of recorded music for a short period.
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My earliest Chart memories are of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody appearing on TOTP and the video being quite terrifying (the bit where the mirror effect kicks in), Wings - Mull of Kintyre and The Brass Band, so 1976, '77. Fortunate that the Charts were continually eclectic throughout my childhood.
The actual Charts I became more obsessed with when I first got a tape recorder (at 9 or 10 years of age), for obvious reasons, the Sunday Radio 1 Chart run down 5pm-7pm was essential. The Charts were essentially old by then though in that, I think I’m right saying this, but they used to be revealed at lunch time on Tuesdays (or Wednesdays?) on Radio 1. I certainly remember running home for lunch from Junior School to listen to what was No.1. So by Thursdays TOTP some but not all would know what (a potentially new) No.1 was already. I think this shifted to Sundays being the reveal, but can’t remember when.
Remember 1981 being formative for me, last year of Junior School and every No.1 seemed to deserve to be there, even stuff you didn’t naturally like you would grow to respect. Almost like in a pre-Internet age music was a key line of communication somehow, shame that has gone a bit.
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Ah, 1985, I was 17 and spent most of my year razzing around irresponsibly with my mates on our 125cc “motorbikes”. Mine was a Yamaha RD125LC with an Allspeed exhaust put on by myself, 98mph flat out, loved that bike, was only nearly killed/banned a couple of times! 
Billy Idol’s White Wedding seemed to always be playing on the video jukebox in the Cross Keys we used to frequent.
Also got my first tattoo that year (a year before legal age tut) at a distinctly dodgy looking place on a Bristol back street. The days before tattooists were out in the open and acceptable!
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