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Off The Chart: 24 August 1988

Off The Chart: 24 August 1988

It’s that time again! We’re heading back to this day in 1988 for another Off The Chart, unloading a big bag of obscure and forgotten hits on your doorstep and running away. There’ll also be the usual round-up of what was going on, plus three of the week’s new albums, a track from one of today’s Peel Sessions, a look at the Belgian chart and the top five hits in full.

  • Who recycled one of their huge 1970s hits for fundraising purposes?
  • Who won their biggest hit single in a charity auction?
  • And what happened when Big Vince Stole My Parrot?

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: 8 December 1987

Off The Chart: 8 December 1987

It’s beginning to look a tiny bit like Christmas on Off The Chart as we go back to this day in 1987! Join us for two hours of hits of varying levels of familiarity, tracks from all the new entries … read more

Off The Chart: 18 February 1986

Off The Chart: 18 February 1986

It’s 1986 all over again on this week’s Off The Chart as we spend a couple of hours looking at the UK singles chart from 34 years ago. There’s the usual brace of forgotten and half-remembered hits, as well as … read more

Off The Chart: 30 April 1988

Off The Chart: 30 April 1988

Here we go again with another trip to 1988 for this week’s Off The Chart! We’ve got all the usual features, except for one… There’s still the regular round-up of forgotten and half-remembered hits, a look at the day’s events, … read more

Off The Chart: 7 January 1988

Off The Chart: 7 January 1988

A new year, a new jingle, a new feature (because we’ve run out of films) but lots of old records as usual on Off The Chart as we go back to the first chart of 1988! Steve and Julian play … read more

1987 Christmas Top 40

Shane & Kirsty

1987 saw the proper arrival of house music in the UK, with Steve “Silk” Hurley’s Jack Your Body topping the chart in January and M/A/R/R/S blithely sampling every record they could get their hands on and reaching number 1 with … read more