Strap yourselves in, we’re going all the way back to 1980 on this week’s Off The Chart for another two hours of hits, headlines and happenstance. As always we’ve got a brace of hits you don’t often hear on a chart show, plus three tracks from a somewhat controversial hit album, a hit from the Australian chart and the top five in full. Which late ’70s band was a breeding ground for future members of Level 42? Which Aussie band had to rename themselves after their debut album to find international success? And which album reached the top twenty despite being banned from advertising on television? Tune in at 10am to find out!
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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!
