1978
THE LAST GREAT YEAR OF ROCK
IN THE WEEK WHEN KATE BUSH WUTHERING HEIGHTS IS RELEASED , JOY DIVISION PLAY THEIR FIRST GIG UNDER THEIR NEW NAME AT PIPS DISCOTHEQUE MANCHESTER AND TERRY KATY OF CHICAGO BLOWS HIS BRAINS OUT, WE REACH WEEK FOUR OF 1978.
WINGS HANG ON FOR ONE MORE WEEK WITH MULL OF KINTYRE ,McCARTNEY' S LAST NUMBER ONE FOR OVER FOUR YEARS. ALTHIA AND DONNA WAIT IN THE WINGS AT NUMBER TWO AND DONNA SUMMER LOVES UNKIND AT NUMBER THREE.
THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN AND FIGARO UP TEN TO FOUR ON IT WAY TO THE TOP , WITH ODYSSEY NATIVE NEW YORKER AT FIVE. TWO BIG JUMPERS INTO THE TOP TEN BILL WITHERS LOVELY DAY IN AT EIGHT AND SCOTT FITZGERALD AND YVONNE KEELY IF I HAD WORDS UP SEVENTEEN PLACES TO NUMBER TEN.
WAR ARE UP TWELVE PLACES TO NUMBER FOURTEEN WITH GALAXY THEIR SECOND BIGGEST HIT COMING TWO YEARS AFTER LOW RIDER. T CONNECTION ON FIRE AT SIXTEEN GIVES THEM THEIR SECOND AND LAST TOP TWENTY HIT.
LOWER DOWN IN THE TOP FORTY WE START TO HAVE SOME INTERESTING AND CLASSIC SONG CHARTING FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS WEEK.
RICH KIDS RICH KIDS FORMED BY GLEN MATLOCK AND MIDGE URE WITH RUSTY EGAN AND STEVE NEW CHART AT TWENTY NINE,NO DOUBT HELP BY THE FACT THE SINGLE IS PRESSED ON RED VINYL. DRUMMER MAN BY TONIGHT CHARTS AT THIRTY FOUR, WHILE ROD STEWART START THE YEAR ON A HIGH WHICH WILL ONLY GET BETTER LATTER IN THE YEAR, WITH HOT LEGS/ I WAS ONLY JOKING AT NUMBER THIRTY FIVE.
EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS NOW STRANGELY BACK CALLING THEM SELF THAT AGAIN AFTER BEING THE RODS ON DO ANYTHING YOU WANNA DO THEIR BIGGEST HIT FROM LAST YEAR CHART THE LAST OF FIVE SINGLES AT NUMBER THIRTY SIX WITH QUIT THIS TOWN IT WONT GO ANY HIGHER.
SMOKIE WILL HAVE ONE MORE TOP FIVE HIT BEFORE THAT DREADFUL VERSION OF ALICE ( WHO THE F IS ALICE) MAKES THE TOP THREE IN 1995 WITH THE GUY FROM BLACK LACE ALAN BARTON AND ROY CHUBBY BROWN BUT NOT WITH THIS ONE FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE IS NEW AT THIRTY EIGHT.
A CLASSIC IF EVER THERE WAS ONE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA MR BLUE SKY . THE SECOND SINGLE LIFTED FROM THE OUT OF THE BLUE ALBUM IN ITSELF A CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR, CHARTS AT THIRTY NINE.
AND FINALLY DAVID BOWIE MAKES THE FORTY AT NUMBER FORTY WITH BEAUTY AND THE BEAST . THE SECOND SINGLE TAKEN FROM HEROES , IT WILL ONLY SPEND TWO WEEKS IN THE CHARTS AND PEAK AT THIRTY NINE.
BOTH THE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA AND DAVID BOWIE WILL CHART HIGHER IN THEIR FIRST WEEK ON THE NME CHART OF THIS WEEK . DAVID BOWIE HOWEVER WILL STILL ONLY MANAGE TWO WEEKS ON THE CHART MAKING IT AS HIGH HAS TWENTY FIVE NEXT WEEK.
WORDS BY PETER STOCK HAMMERSMITH78MUSICPROMOTIONS COPY RIGHT 2018
THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN AND FIGARO UP TEN TO FOUR ON IT WAY TO THE TOP , WITH ODYSSEY NATIVE NEW YORKER AT FIVE. TWO BIG JUMPERS INTO THE TOP TEN BILL WITHERS LOVELY DAY IN AT EIGHT AND SCOTT FITZGERALD AND YVONNE KEELY IF I HAD WORDS UP SEVENTEEN PLACES TO NUMBER TEN.
WAR ARE UP TWELVE PLACES TO NUMBER FOURTEEN WITH GALAXY THEIR SECOND BIGGEST HIT COMING TWO YEARS AFTER LOW RIDER. T CONNECTION ON FIRE AT SIXTEEN GIVES THEM THEIR SECOND AND LAST TOP TWENTY HIT.
LOWER DOWN IN THE TOP FORTY WE START TO HAVE SOME INTERESTING AND CLASSIC SONG CHARTING FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS WEEK.
RICH KIDS RICH KIDS FORMED BY GLEN MATLOCK AND MIDGE URE WITH RUSTY EGAN AND STEVE NEW CHART AT TWENTY NINE,NO DOUBT HELP BY THE FACT THE SINGLE IS PRESSED ON RED VINYL. DRUMMER MAN BY TONIGHT CHARTS AT THIRTY FOUR, WHILE ROD STEWART START THE YEAR ON A HIGH WHICH WILL ONLY GET BETTER LATTER IN THE YEAR, WITH HOT LEGS/ I WAS ONLY JOKING AT NUMBER THIRTY FIVE.
EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS NOW STRANGELY BACK CALLING THEM SELF THAT AGAIN AFTER BEING THE RODS ON DO ANYTHING YOU WANNA DO THEIR BIGGEST HIT FROM LAST YEAR CHART THE LAST OF FIVE SINGLES AT NUMBER THIRTY SIX WITH QUIT THIS TOWN IT WONT GO ANY HIGHER.
SMOKIE WILL HAVE ONE MORE TOP FIVE HIT BEFORE THAT DREADFUL VERSION OF ALICE ( WHO THE F IS ALICE) MAKES THE TOP THREE IN 1995 WITH THE GUY FROM BLACK LACE ALAN BARTON AND ROY CHUBBY BROWN BUT NOT WITH THIS ONE FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE IS NEW AT THIRTY EIGHT.
A CLASSIC IF EVER THERE WAS ONE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA MR BLUE SKY . THE SECOND SINGLE LIFTED FROM THE OUT OF THE BLUE ALBUM IN ITSELF A CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR, CHARTS AT THIRTY NINE.
AND FINALLY DAVID BOWIE MAKES THE FORTY AT NUMBER FORTY WITH BEAUTY AND THE BEAST . THE SECOND SINGLE TAKEN FROM HEROES , IT WILL ONLY SPEND TWO WEEKS IN THE CHARTS AND PEAK AT THIRTY NINE.
BOTH THE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA AND DAVID BOWIE WILL CHART HIGHER IN THEIR FIRST WEEK ON THE NME CHART OF THIS WEEK . DAVID BOWIE HOWEVER WILL STILL ONLY MANAGE TWO WEEKS ON THE CHART MAKING IT AS HIGH HAS TWENTY FIVE NEXT WEEK.
WORDS BY PETER STOCK HAMMERSMITH78MUSICPROMOTIONS COPY RIGHT 2018
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