This week on Off The Chart we go back thirty years to a time when everything wasn’t quite so relentlessly awful. Steve and Julian play some of the week’s forgotten hit singles, three tracks from a featured album and the top five in full. Which band got the biggest advance CBS had ever paid for a new act, and then only got to number 44? Which act’s career was torpedoed by Margaret Thatcher? And who got to number 1 by mistake? Click PLAY to find out!
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