Off The Chart: 15 January 1983

Off The Chart: 15 January 1983

Are you getting the hang of the Tuesday evening slot for Off The Chart yet? Tune in tonight for a trip back to this day in 1983, with a brace of forgotten and half-remembered hits, three tracks from one of the week’s big albums, a look at the day’s events, a rundown of the Swedish top twenty and the UK’s top five singles in full. Who broke their 100% record of top twenty hits with a song about the IRA? Who came close to having the Christmas number 1 and the Christmas number 100 in consecutive years? And whose final hit was written by a former England goalkeeper? Click PLAY to find out!

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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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