Off The Chart: 12 November 1980

Off The Chart: 12 November 1980

We’re going all the way back to today in 1980 on this week’s Off The Chart for another two hours of hits you’ve forgotten about – or never heard in the first place – plus the usual look at the day’s events, three of the week’s big hit albums, a romp through the Japanese singles chart and the UK’s top five singles in full. Which ’70s star returned to the chart for the first time in five years and promptly vanished again? Who scored their third number one hit of the year but had to wait 19 years for another? And whose latest hit “speaks of the potentially disruptive power of unleashed desire” (citation required)? 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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