1978 PART TEN

 1978

THE LAST GREAT YEAR OF ROCK

 

 

IN A WEEK WHERE MEAT LOAF BAT OUT OF HELL AND SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER CHARTS IN THE ALBUM CHART FOR THE FIRST TIME. ANDY GIBB IS STILL NUMBER ONE IN THE STATES HIS FIRST OF TWO NUMBER ONES THAT YEAR. AND KATE BUSH HAS HER ONE AND ONLY NUMBER ONE TO DATE WITH WUTHERING HEIGHTS, WE FIND A FAIRLY STATIC CHART.

 

ABBA SLIP DOWN ONE TO NUMBER TWO, DARTS AND ROSE ROYCE ALSO SLIP DOWN ONE TO NUMBERS THREE AND FOUR. BLONDIE MAKE IT INTO THE TOP FIVE FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH DENIS AT NUMBER FIVE.

 

THE BEE GEE STAYIN ALIVE GO DOWN TWO PLACES TO NUMBER TWO. ERUPTION ARE STILL ON THE CLIMB TO NUMBER SEVEN, AND SO TO IS GERRY RAFFERTY AND BAKER STREET UP SIX TO NUMBER EIGHT.

 

BOTH GOING DOWN THIS WEEK ARE THE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA  AND YELLOW DOG AT NUMBERS NINE AND TEN.

 

FREE AND THE FREE EP REACHES ITS HIGHEST POSITION THIS WEEK AT NUMBER ELEVEN. IT WILL RERELEASED IN 1982 AND MAKE NUMBER FIFTY SIX AND ALL RIGHT NOW WILL BE REMIXED IN 1991 AND REACH NUMBER EIGHT.

 

BOB MARLEY STILL ON THE WAY UP WITH IS THIS LOVE WHILE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN FIGARO DROPS TO THIRTEEN. SAMANTHA SANG AND EARTH WIND AND FIRE BOTH GOING UP BUT THE SWEET ARE ABOUT TO SPEND THEIR LAST EVER WEEK IN THE TOP TWENTY WITH LOVE IS LIKE OXYGEN.

 

AT NUMBER EIGHTEEN IS THE HIGHEST CLIMBER IN THE TOP FORTY THIS WEEK GOING UP NINETEEN PLACES BRIAN AND MICHAEL AND MATCHSTALK MEN AND MATCHSTALK CATS AND DOGS, ALTHOUGH BRIAN HAD LEFT BY THE TIME IT WAS A HIT AND ANOTHER ONE HIT WONDER ST WINIFREDS SCHOOL CHOIR SANG BACKING VOCALS.

 

THE STRANGLERS MAKE IT BACK INTO THE TOP TWENTY AGAIN WITH FIVE MINUTER AT NUMBER NINETEEN.

 

ANDY CAMERON CLIMES WITH THE HOPES OF SCOTLAND FOR THE WORLD CUP TO NUMBER TWENTY ONE, AS DO NOTTINGHAM FOREST TO NUMBER TWENTY FOUR.

 

HOT CHOCOLATE ARE UP NINE PLACES TO NUMBER TWENTY SEVEN . THE REAL THING CHART AT NUMBER THIRTY ONE WITH WHENEVER YOU WANT MY LOVE THE FIRST OF THREE MINOR HITS THIS YEAR WITH THIS BEING THE BIGGEST.

 

NICK LOWE CRACKS THE FORTY WITH WHAT WILL BE HIS BIGGEST HIT I LOVE THE SOUND OF BREAKING GLASS AT NUMBER THIRTY THREE.

 

MANHATTAN TRANSFER WALK IN LOVE THE JAM NEWS OF THE WORLD AND DAN HILL SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH ARE ALL NEW ENTRIES AT NUMBERS THIRTY FIVE, THIRTY EIGHT AND THIRTY NINE.

 

AND FINALLY AT NUMBER FORTY AFTER SIXTEEN WEEK WINGS WITH MULL OF KINTYRE/GIRL SCHOOL.

 

ABBA STILL HOLD NUMBER ONE IN THE ALBUM CHART WITH THE ALBUM, BUT LOWER DOWN WE SEE FONZIES FAVOURITES A NEW ENTRY AT NINETEEN, SHAM 69 TELL US THE TRUTH A NEW ENTRY AT TWENTY FIVE, STIFFS LIVE STIFFS AT TWENTY NINE ANOTHER NEW ENTRY . THE ADVERTS ARE NEW AT THIRTY EIGHT WITH CROSSING THE RED SEA WITH THE ADVERTS.

 

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER MAKES IT DEBUT AT NUMBER THIRTY NINE, XTC RETURN AT FORTY WITH WHITE MUSIC.  LITTLE FEAT WAITING FOR COLOMBUS IS NEW AT FORTY THREE AND NICK LOWE THE JESUS OF COOL MAKES A NEW ENTRY AT NUMBER FORTY EIGHT.

 

TED NUGET  DOUBLE LIVE GONZO IS NEW AT FIFTY SEVEN, MEAT LOAF IS NEW AT SIXTY.

SO ALL IN ALL NOT TO BAD A WEEK.

WORDS BY PETER STOCK  HAMMERSMITH78MUSICPROMOTIONS COPY RIGHT 2018