After last week’s live shenanigans we’re back to normal on Off The Chart this week as we head back thirty years to the chart of 3 March 1988. As usual there’s a metric shedload of less familiar hits, three tracks from a featured album, a hit from this week’s Polish chart, a look at the day’s events and the top five singles in full. There’s also another forfeit track to make you wish you’d paid us a dollar on Patreon – our backers get access to an extended version of the show which drops the forfeit track but adds a rundown of the Polish top 20 as well as some bonus extended mixes. Which female duo poached the bass player and drummer out of Madness? Whose first solo hit entered the chart higher than any of his former band’s singles ever reached? And which classic number one hit was written in half an hour? 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!
