We’re heading back to January 1981 on this week’s Off The Chart as Steve and Julian bring you another selection of forgotten and half-remembered hits, a look at the day’s events, three tracks from a featured album, an international hit, the top five in full, and a forfeit track to encourage you to back us on Patreon. Who recycled their 1980 number 2 hit by just singing new words over it? Who was trying not to brag about writing two of Elvis’s biggest hits? And whose only top 40 hit was inspired by Sting’s six pack? 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!
