It’s the day after a very famous event on this week’s Off The Chart, but it’s the closest we’ll ever get to the actual day so we’re celebrating Live Aid on our journey back to 1985! As always there’s a metric shedload of forgotten and half-remembered hits from the week’s chart, an international hit, a look at the day’s events at the top five in full, plus three live recordings from the concert itself. And if you back us on Patreon you can hear to the Canadian top twenty rundown and some bonus 12″ mixes instead of the forfeit track. Which famous quartet was having its only hit as a trio? Who had twelve top 40 hits with only six different songs? And who were James, Frederick, Huston and Hiawatha? 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!
