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Off The Chart: 7 July 1986

Off The Chart: 7 July 1986

Join us for another journey back in time as Off The Chart retreats to this day in 1986! We’ll have the usual two hours of obscure, forgotten and half-remembered hits, plus a special week for new entries on the album chart, a look at the day’s depressing events, a quick trip to the Netherlands to cheer ourselves up by looking at their chart, and back home in time for tea and the top five in full.

  • Who quit Stock, Aitken & Waterman after four hits for a major label deal and never charted again?
  • Who got Chaka Khan, Luther Vandross and Cissy Houston into the chart together without anyone noticing?
  • And which hitmaker grew up to be a Powerpuff Girl?

Tune in and find out!

Listen to Off The Chart on Mad Wasp Radio at 9pm every Tuesday! You can stream Mad Wasp Radio via their website, their apps for iOS or Android, or through TuneIn and MyTuner – and don’t forget to tweet along using the hashtag #OffTheChart. If you’re not around, you can hear the show again on Mad Wasp Radio at 10am on Friday, or catch up on Mixcloud after that.

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There’s a podcast too!

For those of you who enjoy the nonsense we talk but don’t have time to listen to the music, we’ve put the talky bits together with some exclusive extras to make a podcast! This week Steve unmasks a number of fake doctors, Julian invents an LP that plays forever, and Mary Whitehouse writes a strong letter to the Director General of the BBC. It’ll all make sense if you listen.

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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!