Off The Chart: 1 October 1986

Off The Chart: 1 October 1986

It’s a special occasion on this week’s Off The Chart as we celebrate the birthday of all our listeners who haven’t told us when their birthday is! There’s cake for everyone – literally – and a host of hits large and small from this day in 1986. We’ll also have three of the week’s new hit albums, a sneaky peek at the Swedish chart, a review of the day’s events and the top five singles in full. Which ’70s band found themselves back in the chart with some help from an ’80s band? Whose second album was his third hit on the album chart? And whose Top of the Pops performance generated more complaints than any other in the history of the show? Tune in and find out!

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Spotify playlists

If you’ve missed a previous edition they’re all on our Mixcloud page, or for a taster of the music we play, listen to our Spotify playlist Way Off The Chart including one track from each show!

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We also have a Spotify playlist for our #ICEOTWF feature, including all (well, most) of the international hits we’ve played since the feature began in March 2017. There are all sorts of oddities in here, all of which were hits somewhere in the world but not in the UK!

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