Everything else might be cancelled but the show must go on at Off The Chart Towers! We’re here as usual with a look back at this day in 1989, including a brace of less familiar hits, three of the week’s new albums, a look at the day’s events, a jaunt over to the USA to look at their chart, and the top five singles in full.
- Which rock band’s keyboard player changed career and became much more famous than his former band?
- Which pop group’s house album was rejected by their record label, who stuck out a Greatest Hits instead?
- And who resorted to teaming up with Stock, Aitken and Waterman to score their first top five hit in a decade?
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 somehow not around for any of the radio broadcasts, catch up on Mixcloud from Thursday evening.
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Now 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’re now putting the talky bits together into a podcast! In this week’s episode Steve and Julian discuss the time the entire island of Tiree made a record, the band who released 27 singles from their debut album, and Gloria Estefan’s magnetic wheelchair. It’ll all make sense if you listen.
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!
