We’re off back to this day in 1981 for another two hours of hits, headlines and honeycomb on this week’s Off The Chart! As always there’s a brace of forgotten and half-remembered hits, three tracks from one of the week’s big albums, a look at the days events, an international hit and the top five singles in full, which takes an unusually long time this week. Which influential rockers only charted once but had an entire musical genre named after them? Which jazz musician made over fifty albums but only one hit single? And which instrumental hit is in the top forty twice, performed by two different acts but sounding almost identical? Tune in at 10am 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!
