1 ( 2 ) Internal Exile - Fish < 1st solo #1 >2 ( 1 ) One Way - Levellers (#1[2])
3 ( 3 ) Love To Hate You - Erasure
4 ( 11 ) Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life - Monty Python's Flying Circus
5 ( 4 ) Cream - Prince (#4)
6 ( 13 ) Woman To Woman - Beverley Craven
7 ( 15 ) Love's A Loaded Gun - Alice Cooper
8 ( 8 ) Live Your Life Be Free - Belinda Carlisle
9 ( 18 ) Get Ready For This - 2 Unlimited
10 ( 12 ) Jacky - Marc Almond
11 ( -- ) Goodbye Cruel World - Shakespears Sister
12 ( 6 ) I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses (#6)
13 ( 5 ) Saltwater - Julian Lennon (#1[3])
14 ( 10 ) Something Got Me Started - Simply Red (#10)
15 ( 23 ) Dry Land - Marillion
16 ( 9 ) Try - Bros (#9)
17 ( -- ) I Wonder Why - Curtis Stigers
18 ( 17 ) I Think I Love You - Voice Of The Beehive (#17)
19 ( 7 ) Let's Talk About Sex - Salt-N-Pepa (#2[1])
20 ( 27 ) Best Of You - Kenny Thomas
21 ( -- ) Finally - Ce Ce Peniston
22 ( 19 ) Special Way - River City People (#19)
23 ( -- ) Save Up All Your Tears - Cher
24 ( 16 ) Feel Every Beat - Electronic (#16)
25 ( -- ) My Love Life - Morrissey
26 ( 33 ) Funny How - Airhead
27 ( -- ) Decadence Dance - Extreme
28 ( 25 ) Come Inside - Thompson Twins (#25)
29 ( 26 ) Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Oleta Adams (#26)
30 ( -- ) Closing Time - Deacon Blue
31 ( 14 ) The Big L - Roxette (#4)
32 ( 38 ) Walk Through Fire - Bad Company
33 ( -- ) This House - Alison Moyet
34 ( 40 ) Just A Little Bit Longer - Maxi Priest
35 ( 22 ) Trust - Ned's Atomic Dustbin (#22)
36 ( -- ) Sweets - World Of Twist
37 ( 24 ) Live For Loving You - Gloria Estefan (#24)
38 ( 20 ) Can't Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams (#9)
39 ( -- ) Fun Day - Stevie Wonder
40 ( 35 ) World In Union - Kiri Te Kanawa (#35)
41 ( 29 ) Don't Cry - Guns N Roses (#29)
42 ( 21 ) Sometimes It's A b**** - Stevie Nicks (#2[2])
43 ( 32 ) Fade - Paris Angels (#32)
44 ( 39 ) No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne (#39)
45 ( -- ) Mesmerise - Chapterhouse
46 ( 41 ) Got It At The Delmar - Senseless Things (#41)
47 ( -- ) Just Get Up And Dance - Afrika Bambaataa
48 ( 36 ) A Rainy Night In Soho - Pogues (#36)
49 ( 28 ) Hole Hearted - Extreme (#5)
50 ( 31 ) Then You Turn Away - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (#16)
-- ( 30 ) Emotions - Mariah Carey (#10)
-- ( 34 ) Feel So High - Des'Ree (#6)
-- ( 37 ) Hearthammer - Runrig (#14)
-- ( 42 ) Slave To The Grind - Skid Row (#22)
-- ( 43 ) Sleep Alone - Wonder Stuff (#17)
-- ( 44 ) Baby Now I - Dan Reed Network
-- ( 45 ) I Belong To You - Whitney Houston
-- ( 46 ) The Pressure Part 1 - Sounds Of Blackness
-- ( 47 ) The Real Love - Bob Seger
-- ( 48 ) Secrets Of the Heart - Chesney Hawkes
-- ( 49 ) Gett Off - Prince & The New Power Generation (#9)
-- ( 50 ) Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Beatmasters
-- ( -- ) Swing Low (Run With The Ball) - Union
-- ( -- ) Set The Night To Music - Roberta Flack & Maxi Priest
-- ( -- ) Come Back - Alison Limerick
Fish moves to the top and joins the likes of Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Phil Collins as singers who have had a #1 as part of a band and also solo. (In the case of Phil Collins he had hits with Genesis first but had his solo #1 before Genesis had any of theirs). As well as two others who enter this week, Morrissey and Alison Moyet.
Whilst I bought Marillion's albums "Misplaced Childhood" and "Clutching At Straws", once they split I didn't buy albums but either, but I bought the single of "Internal Exile" because it appeared in the "bargain bin" of my local shop after its poor chart run. It is notable that in the last minute or so of the song the tempo changes completely and it goes into a massive Scottish jig. (The album version is longer, but whereas I'm used to the album versions of some Marillion songs, I'm used to the single version of this one, which is the same as the version in the video). I appear to be the only one with this song in my top 20, a couple of others have charted it but a lot lower. I thought, being Scottish, that
TheThorne and
smokeyb might have charted it, but no, they didn't. However on 30 November 1992 I decided to bring along my singles collection to the local pub so they could play some of them, and being St Andrews Day, there was one member there who made a particular request for Scottish music. That gave me a great chance to get it played. He enjoyed it but not sure he was expecting anyone to have it.