Off The Chart: 23 February 1983

Off The Chart: 23 February 1983

Join us for a trip back to 1983 on this week’s Off The Chart as we flood your earholes with two hours of hits you might not remember. We’ll also have the usual round-up of the day’s events, three of the week’s new albums, a quick look at the Australian chart, and the UK’s top five in full to bring us home.

  • Which one man band employed a New York Doll to play harmonica?
  • Who got thrown off a TV show for which he had written the theme?
  • And what was voted the thirteenth most Australian song ever?

Tune in and find out!


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There’s a podcast too!

For those of you who enjoy the nonsense we talk but don’t have time to listen to the music, we’ve put the talky bits together with some exclusive extras to make a podcast! In this week’s podcast we’re getting sidetracked into discussion of unlikely guest artistes, SAND, and John Lennon’s collection of whiskey manufacturers’ water jugs.

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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!

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