After last week’s excursion to the beach, Steve and Julian are back in the studio to bring you another two hours of hits, headlines and halibut on this week’s Off The Chart! They’re taking you back to this day in 1981 for some forgotten and half-remembered hits, three tracks from one of the week’s big albums, a look at the day’s events, a hit from the Japanese chart and the top five in full. And because you still won’t give us $1 a month on Patreon there’s a horrible forfeit track for you. Which band decided to give away their fifth album free with their fourth? Which single became the highest ever charting follow-up to a Eurovision winner? And who was the missing link between Michael Jackson and Ian Dury? Click PLAY to find out!
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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!
