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Off The Chart: 17 August 1985

Off The Chart: 17 August 1985

We’re heading back to this day in 1985 on this week’s Off The Chart! Join us for two hours of obscure, forgotten and half-remembered hits, plus tracks from three of the week’s new hit albums, a round-up of the day’s goings-on, a Radio 1 session track, a look at the US singles chart and the top five in full whether you like it or not.

  • Which track from this week’s number one album isn’t on it anymore?
  • Whose album title was inspired by Winston Churchill?
  • And which 1985 hit was voted the eighth worst song of the 1960s?

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!

Mixcloud Select: 1hw – 22 Eighties One Hit Wonders

Virtual CD of the Month: 1hw

The obtusely titled 1hw rounds up 22 acts who reached the UK top 40 once and only once, from Men Without Hats and Mental As Anything to Baltimora and Opus. It stands for “1 Hit Wonders”, you see. But of … read more

Off The Chart: 23 April 1985

Off The Chart: 23 April 1985

It’s the end of another dexy which means it’s 1985 on this week’s Off The Chart! Join us for another two hours of hits, headlines and Harvesters including the usual barrowload of forgotten and half-remembered hits, three tracks from one … read more

Off The Chart: 4 June 1985

Off The Chart: 4 June 1985

Every Saturday in our podcast-style-radio-show-thing Off The Chart, Steve Binnie and Julian Sparrow look at the chart from the corresponding week in one of the ’80s years and play the songs you don’t normally hear on a chart rundown. They … read more