It’s Easter 1985 on this week’s Off The Chart as Steve and Julian laugh in the face of technical problems to revisit the UK singles chart from 35 years ago today! This week’s hollow, chocolate-flavoured show contains the usual selection of obscure hits, tracks from three of the week’s new albums, a look at the day’s events, a quick day trip to France to look at their chart, and the top five hits in full.
- Who had to wait seven years between his first and second top 40 hits?
- Who released a single in two different mixes so you didn’t know which one you’d get until you bought it?
- And who shocked the Chinese by kissing a woman?
Tune in and find out!
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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! This week’s episode is enlivened by Julian’s Brian Cox anecdote, Steve’s non-racist Chinese accent and Julian’s Ed Sheeran song. 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!
