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   Yes, but I think the tipping point was there in 1985. After Band Aid’s Do they Know it’s Christmas reached…

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   This was where the Frankie train started to run out of steam. Should’ve been the Christmas number 1, and would…

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   Disco sort of died out after Chic, Sister Sledge and Sheila B and Devotion, dropped out of the charts in…

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   There were plenty of songs which should have topped the charts, while this awful song was sitting there. Echo Beach…

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   One of the lesser chart toppers of 1980. Never a song I’m keen on listening to, and tend to skip…

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   The nuclear threat wasn’t so widespread in 1980, compared to the 1983/84 era, when it really became unavoidable, via tv…

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   1980 seems to be the first year when nuclear war anxiety creeps into the U.K. music scene. Kate Bush, The…

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   I cannot understand how The Whispers failed to beat this, or how Madness couldn’t hang on( maybe that was on…