On the anniversary of the first episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, it’s appropriate that we’re going back 42 years on this week’s Off The Chart to look at the chart from today in 1980. We’ll have the usual selection of obscure, forgotten and neglected hits, plus tracks from three of the week’s new albums, a round-up of the day’s events and a look at the Canadian chart, but don’t panic, we’ll be back in time for the top five in full.
- Which British act recorded a live album in Moscow two years before they had a hit at home?
- Whose new album was just a repackaging of their previous album?
- And which act in the chart became the subject of a musical by another act in the chart?
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!
