Happy New (old) Year! Come back to the first week of 1986 with Steve and Julian on this week’s Off The Chart and try to overlook the fact that it’s only three weeks since we did December 1985. Still, there’ll be the usual mix of forgotten and half-remembered hits, three tracks from a featured album, the International Chart Entry Of The Week and the top five in full. There’s also your regular forfeit track as a punishment for not backing us on Patreon. Which band were turned into cartoon characters for their difficult third album? Which “singer of songs with a message” was making unexpected inroads into daytime television? And why did Steve Harley have a statutory right of entry to your home? Click PLAY 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!
