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Penultimate show in November!

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#1’s this week
1980: Blondie – The Tide Is High
1981: Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure
1982: Eddy Grant – I Don’t Wanna Dance
1983: Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
1984: Chaka Khan – I Feel For You
1985: Feargal Sharkey – A Good Heart
1986: Berlin – Take My Breath Away
1987: T’Pau – China In Your Hand
1988: Enya – Orinoco Flow
1989: New Kids On The Block – You Got It

News This week
1983 – Brink’s-MAT robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink’s-MAT vault at Heathrow Airport. At the time, it was described as “the crime of the century”.

Police estimated 15 people were involved in the planning of the Brinks Mat robbery, but only three of the gang members were convicted. Despite a huge police investigation most of the gold has never been recovered.

1984 – Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas” in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
The 1984 original became the biggest selling single in UK Singles Chart history, selling a million copies in the first week alone, and passing three million sales on the last day of 1984. It stayed at Number 1 for five weeks, becoming Christmas number one, and has sold 3.7 million copies.

20-10-14

SONGS PLAYED
Fine Young Cannibals – Johnny Come Home
Culture Club – Church of the Poison Mind
Bananarama – Robert De Niro’s Waiting
Shakespeare Sister – You’re History
Terence Trent D’Arby – If You Let Me Stay
Paula Abdul – Straight Up
Communards – Don’t Leave Me This Way
Five Star – Rain or Shine
Genesis – Invisible Touch
Air Supply – All Out of Love
Dee C Lee – See the Day
Eurythmics – Missionary Man
Level 42 – Lessons in Love
Prince – Little Red Corvette
Odyssey – Going Back to My Roots
Grace Jones – Pull Up To the Bumper
Furniture – Brilliant Mind
Gwen Guthrie – Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ on but the Rent
Alison Moyet – Love Resurrection
Thomson Twins – You Take Me Up
Bryan Adams – One Night Love Affair
Heaven 17 – Temptation
Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure
Eddy Grant – I Don’t Wanna Dance
New Kids on the Block – You Got It (The Right Stuff)
Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes
Europe – The Final Countdown

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#1’s this week
1980: Blondie – The Tide Is High
1981: Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure
1982: Eddy Grant – I Don’t Wanna Dance
1983: Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
1984: Chaka Khan – I Feel For You
1985: Feargal Sharkey – A Good Heart
1986: Berlin – Take My Breath Away
1987: T’Pau – China In Your Hand
1988: Enya – Orinoco Flow
1989: New Kids On The Block – You Got It

News This week
1983 – Brink’s-MAT robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink’s-MAT vault at Heathrow Airport. At the time, it was described as “the crime of the century”.

Police estimated 15 people were involved in the planning of the Brinks Mat robbery, but only three of the gang members were convicted. Despite a huge police investigation most of the gold has never been recovered.

1984 – Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas” in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
The 1984 original became the biggest selling single in UK Singles Chart history, selling a million copies in the first week alone, and passing three million sales on the last day of 1984. It stayed at Number 1 for five weeks, becoming Christmas number one, and has sold 3.7 million copies.

20-10-14

SONGS PLAYED
Fine Young Cannibals – Johnny Come Home
Culture Club – Church of the Poison Mind
Bananarama – Robert De Niro’s Waiting
Shakespeare Sister – You’re History
Terence Trent D’Arby – If You Let Me Stay
Paula Abdul – Straight Up
Communards – Don’t Leave Me This Way
Five Star – Rain or Shine
Genesis – Invisible Touch
Air Supply – All Out of Love
Dee C Lee – See the Day
Eurythmics – Missionary Man
Level 42 – Lessons in Love
Prince – Little Red Corvette
Odyssey – Going Back to My Roots
Grace Jones – Pull Up To the Bumper
Furniture – Brilliant Mind
Gwen Guthrie – Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ on but the Rent
Alison Moyet – Love Resurrection
Thomson Twins – You Take Me Up
Bryan Adams – One Night Love Affair
Heaven 17 – Temptation
Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure
Eddy Grant – I Don’t Wanna Dance
New Kids on the Block – You Got It (The Right Stuff)
Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes
Europe – The Final Countdown

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#1’s this week
1980: Blondie – The Tide Is High
1981: Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure
1982: Eddy Grant – I Don’t Wanna Dance
1983: Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
1984: Chaka Khan – I Feel For You
1985: Feargal Sharkey – A Good Heart
1986: Berlin – Take My Breath Away
1987: T’Pau – China In Your Hand
1988: Enya – Orinoco Flow
1989: New Kids On The Block – You Got It

News This week
1983 – Brink’s-MAT robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink’s-MAT vault at Heathrow Airport. At the time, it was described as “the crime of the century”.

Police estimated 15 people were involved in the planning of the Brinks Mat robbery, but only three of the gang members were convicted. Despite a huge police investigation most of the gold has never been recovered.

1984 – Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas” in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
The 1984 original became the biggest selling single in UK Singles Chart history, selling a million copies in the first week alone, and passing three million sales on the last day of 1984. It stayed at Number 1 for five weeks, becoming Christmas number one, and has sold 3.7 million copies.

20-10-14

SONGS PLAYED
Fine Young Cannibals – Johnny Come Home
Culture Club – Church of the Poison Mind
Bananarama – Robert De Niro’s Waiting
Shakespeare Sister – You’re History
Terence Trent D’Arby – If You Let Me Stay
Paula Abdul – Straight Up
Communards – Don’t Leave Me This Way
Five Star – Rain or Shine
Genesis – Invisible Touch
Air Supply – All Out of Love
Dee C Lee – See the Day
Eurythmics – Missionary Man
Level 42 – Lessons in Love
Prince – Little Red Corvette
Odyssey – Going Back to My Roots
Grace Jones – Pull Up To the Bumper
Furniture – Brilliant Mind
Gwen Guthrie – Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ on but the Rent
Alison Moyet – Love Resurrection
Thomson Twins – You Take Me Up
Bryan Adams – One Night Love Affair
Heaven 17 – Temptation
Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure
Eddy Grant – I Don’t Wanna Dance
New Kids on the Block – You Got It (The Right Stuff)
Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes
Europe – The Final Countdown

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Penultimate show in November!

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#1’s this week
1980: Blondie – The Tide Is High
1981: Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure
1982: Eddy Grant – I Don’t Wanna Dance
1983: Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
1984: Chaka Khan – I Feel For You
1985: Feargal Sharkey – A Good Heart
1986: Berlin – Take My Breath Away
1987: T’Pau – China In Your Hand
1988: Enya – Orinoco Flow
1989: New Kids On The Block – You Got It

News This week
1983 – Brink’s-MAT robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink’s-MAT vault at Heathrow Airport. At the time, it was described as “the crime of the century”.

Police estimated 15 people were involved in the planning of the Brinks Mat robbery, but only three of the gang members were convicted. Despite a huge police investigation most of the gold has never been recovered.

1984 – Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas” in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
The 1984 original became the biggest selling single in UK Singles Chart history, selling a million copies in the first week alone, and passing three million sales on the last day of 1984. It stayed at Number 1 for five weeks, becoming Christmas number one, and has sold 3.7 million copies.

20-10-14

SONGS PLAYED
Fine Young Cannibals – Johnny Come Home
Culture Club – Church of the Poison Mind
Bananarama – Robert De Niro’s Waiting
Shakespeare Sister – You’re History
Terence Trent D’Arby – If You Let Me Stay
Paula Abdul – Straight Up
Communards – Don’t Leave Me This Way
Five Star – Rain or Shine
Genesis – Invisible Touch
Air Supply – All Out of Love
Dee C Lee – See the Day
Eurythmics – Missionary Man
Level 42 – Lessons in Love
Prince – Little Red Corvette
Odyssey – Going Back to My Roots
Grace Jones – Pull Up To the Bumper
Furniture – Brilliant Mind
Gwen Guthrie – Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ on but the Rent
Alison Moyet – Love Resurrection
Thomson Twins – You Take Me Up
Bryan Adams – One Night Love Affair
Heaven 17 – Temptation
Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure
Eddy Grant – I Don’t Wanna Dance
New Kids on the Block – You Got It (The Right Stuff)
Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes
Europe – The Final Countdown

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