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Off The Chart: 10 December 1989

Off The Chart: 10 December 1989

We’re as close to the end of the ’80s as we’ve ever been on Off The Chart this week as we revisit the singles chart of 10 December 1989! As ever there’s three tracks from a featured album, the top five in full and a whole load of hits you don’t hear very often, including one from 1960 and one that wasn’t a top 40 hit until 1990. Who took to the streets to demand more parties? Which snooker player cut his own hair during a match? And what links Jimmy Somerville to Vera Lynn? Click PLAY to find out!

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1989 Christmas Top 40

Andy Stewart

In many ways the last year of the decade wasn’t too dissimilar from the early years – people were still using synths and computers to make their records, except the computers were now the size of a suitcase rather than … read more