Time to fire up the old flux capacitor as we go back to the… well, the past, frankly. This week’s Off The Chart revisits the UK singles chart of this week in 1985 and plays some of the hits you don’t normally hear on a chart show, plus three tracks from one of the week’s hit albums, a hit from the New Zealand chart, and the top five in full. There’s a number one hit from the ’90s barely stumbling into the top fifty in its original form; the end of a run of twenty consecutive top 20 hits for one of the 1980s’ biggest bands; and a former Radio 1 DJ pretending to be a Hollywood megastar. Are you not entertained? Click PLAY now!
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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!
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!
