Back to 1983 this week on Off The Chart as Steve and Julian play some of the less remembered hits of the week, plus three tracks from a featured album with an unfeasibly long name and the top five singles … read more
Here we go again on our own, bringing you the UK singles chart from this week in 1982! Steve and Julian play some lesser-known hits from Kim Wilde, Bad Manners, Rush, Squeeze and Heaven 17, plus three tracks from the … read more
By this stage of the BBC Four reruns the audience has formed itself into two distinct groups. One one hand there’s the casual viewer who isn’t really following the timeline but will greet every deviation from the norm – anything … read more
There’s an almighty gap in the BBC Four reruns here as we skip three whole episodes, starting with this Dave Lee Travis-fronted edition. No doubt the Daily Mail would be disgusted to realise that people ever watched it on its … read more
“Welcome to Top of the Pops! Some 19 million people every week tune in to see some of the top acts of 1981 on this show!” That’s what Mike Read tells us, and as one of the co-authors of the … read more
You might have thought that by 1982 old-fashioned analogue music would be dead and the entire chart would be computer generated. Of course that scenario was still a good 25 years away. In fact synthpop was struggling, with the likes … read more
