Retrochart - 30/03/85

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UK Top 40 Singles weekending 30th March 1985

1 (1) Easy Lover – Phil Collins & Phil Bailey
2 (2) That Ole Devil Called Love – Alison Moyet
3 (14) Pie Jesu – Sarah Brightman & Paul Miles-Kingston
4 (4) Every Time You Go Away – Paul Young
5 (New) Welcome To The Pleasure Dome – Frankie Goes To Hollywood
6 (7) Do What You Do – Jermaine Jackson
7 (3) Material Girl - Madonna
8 (9) We Close Our Eyes – Go West
9 (5) Kiss Me – Stephen ‘Tin Tin’ Duffy
10 (12) Wide Boy – Nik Kershaw
11 (8) The Last Kiss – David Cassidy
12 (6) You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) – Dead Or Alive
13 (20) Hangin’ On A String (Contemplating) – Loose Ends
14 (17) Some Like It Hot – Power Station
15 (15) Between The Wars (EP) – Billy Bragg
16 (New) Everybody Wants To Rule The World – Tears For Fears
17 (11) Nightshift - Commodores
18 (32) Cover Me – Bruce Springsteen
19 (28) Move Closer – Phyllis Nelson
20 (19) Mr. Telephone Man – New Edition
21 (25) Dancing In The Dark (EP) – Big Daddy
22 (18) The Belle Of St. Mark – Sheila E
23 (34) The Heat Is On – Glenn Frey
24 (39) Could It Be I’m Falling In Love – David Grant & Jaki Graham
25 (37) Now That We’ve Found Love – Third World
26 (38) Won’t You Hold My Hand Now - King
27 (13) Dancing In The Dark – Bruce Springsteen
28 (10) I Know Him So Well – Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson
29 (New) Shakespeare’s Sister – The Smiths
30 (16) Let’s Go Crazy/Take Me With U – Prince and the Revolution
31 (40) Spend The Night – Cool Notes
32 (21) Solid – Ashford & Simpson
33 (New) Grimly Fiendish – The Damned
34 (New) Love Is A Battlefield – Pat Benatar
35 (22) Breaking Up My Heart – Shakin’ Stevens
36 (33) Starvation/Tam Tam Pour L’Ethiopie - Starvation
37 (23) The Boys Of Summer – Don Henley
38 (New) Can’t Fight This Feeling – REO Speedwagon
39 (New) Somebody – Bryan Adams
40 (New) Let’s Go Together - Change

[latifaheaston]

merrymidlander said:

UK Top 40 Singles weekending 30th March 1985


12 (6) You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) – Dead Or Alive
22 (18) The Belle Of St. Mark – Sheila E
24 (39) Could It Be I’m Falling In Love – David Grant & Jaki Graham
30 (16) Let’s Go Crazy/Take Me With U – Prince and the Revolution
34 (New) Love Is A Battlefield – Pat Benatar

I was about two weeks old, I like these though!

[Earl Purple]

I was about 20 years old... I particularly hated Loose Ends and the Cool Notes.

[meister]

Material Girl and Wide Boy! Two songs I still love to this day. Awww what the hell... even REO Speedwagon still gets a spin! lol

[wonderwall]

crikey i was only 10 tears for fears are a good band though

[Jan]

isn't this the week the Hazell Dean song No fool (for love) frustratingly peaked at no.41?! some great songs on the chart though

[Earl Purple]

Frankie Goes To Hollywood didn't make it to #1 in the UK chart but that song did in mine, keeping out Tears For Fears which in the UK chart would also peak at #2 behind "We Are The World". Meanwhile Phyllis Nelson just crept up the chart slowly and would suddenly hit #1 having climbed something like 8-4-3 in the previous weeks.

I wasn't that much into the Smiths at the time and this particular song was just totally tuneless to me. I actually did prefer their next single "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" but that one failed to reach the top 40.

[PurpleCareBear]

A lot of these songs are unknown to me.lol.I didn't really get into music til 1986.
I loved ,and still love...

Material Girl - Madonna
We Close Our Eyes – Go West
Could It Be I’m Falling In Love – David Grant & Jaki Graham
I Know Him So Well – Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson

That Ole Devil Called Love -Alison Moyet - I didn't know this song in the 80s at all,but love it now from when I bought her 'Hits' album.
Wide Boy - Nik kershaw - This song is fairly new to my ears but I love it.

[wonderwall]

easy lover great song that was

[PurpleCareBear]

Actually come to think of it,i quite liked that 'Easy Lover' song too,and i'm not a fan of Phil Collins by any stretch of the imagination.
Never heard of Phil Bailey before or since though.

[ManicKangaroo]

Philip Bailey is/was a member of Earth Wind & Fire

[PurpleCareBear]

All these years and I never knew that !

** puts on 'Boogie Wonderland' and boogies on down **

[wonderwall]

some great songs in that chart

[jerri]

I like most of these its like a trip down memory lane i would of been 14 at the time

[Earl Purple]

30 March 1985 was my last day of being a teenager.

[wonderwall]

shakesphere sister by the smiths great songs love It

[Jan]

manickangaroo said:

Philip Bailey is/was a member of Earth Wind & Fire

Aah, great songs from them includes September '99 (prefer Phats & Smalls funky remix to the original), Fall in love with me, Fantasy, After the love is gone and Let's groove.