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Off The Chart: 1 June 1985

Off The Chart: 1 June 1985

Come back with us to the gloriously awful summer of 1985 on this week’s Off The Chart as we regale you with two hours of the week’s less obvious hits! We’ll be cherry picking some tracks you don’t hear much these days, and throwing in three of the week’s new albums, a round-up of the day’s events, a hit from the Belgian chart and the UK’s top five in full.

  • Whose only number one was remixed by the act enjoying their only number one this week?
  • Who had ten UK hits with just five different songs?
  • And who lost an important support slot because their lead singer wouldn’t stop disrobing on stage?

Tune in and find out!


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Spotify playlists

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!

Off The Chart: 21 May 1981

Off The Chart: 21 May 1981

Come all the way back to this day in 1981 with us on another Off The Chart! As usual we’ll have two hours of hits you might not remember, as well as some of the week’s new hit albums, a … read more