Haven Combi Retro-Chart W/B 17th July 1988

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01 Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon (5wks 4-1-1-1-1)
02 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek A Boo (1wk 2 NEW)
03 Everything But The Girl - I Don't Want To Talk About It (4wks 19-7-4-3)
04 Kim Wilde - You Came (3wks 29-14-4)
05 INXS - Never Tear Us Apart (6wks 13-3-2-2-2-5)
06 Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour (4wks 25-14-9-6)
07 Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl (3wks 23-11-7)
08 Def Leppard - Love Bites (3wks 12-8-8)
09 Debbie Gibson - Foolish Beat (8wks 30-14-3-2-3-3-3-9)
10 Icehouse - My Obsession (4wks 12-6-5-10)

11 Salt-N-Pepa - Push It (6wks 27-9-4-4-6-11)
12 S'Express - Superfly Guy (2wks 15-12)
13 George Michael - Monkey (3wks 16-10-13)
14 All About Eve - Martha's Harbour (1wk 14 NEW)
15 Yazz & The Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up (2wks 29-15)
16 Prince - Glam Slam (2wks 22-16)
17 Lilac Time - Return To Yesterday (2wks 27-17)
18 Tracy Chapman - Fast Car (5wks 10-5-5-7-18)
19 Go Betweens - Streets Of Your Town (1wk 19 NEW)
20 McCarthy - We Are All Bourgeois Now (1wk 20 NEW)

21 Squeeze - Footprints (3wks 32-18-21)
22 Julia Fordham - Happy Ever After (3wks 31-24-22)
23 Style Council - How She Threw It All Away (2wks 23-23)
24 Prefab Sprout - Hey Manhattan (2wks 30-24)
25 Transvision Vamp - I Want Your Love (4wks 31-17-16-25)
26 Pop Will Eat Itself - Def Con One (2wks 34-26)
27 Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River (1wk 27 NEW)
28 Wonder Stuff - A Wish Away (3wks 24-20-28)
29 Fairground Attraction - Find My Love (1wk 29 NEW)
30 Ziggy Marley - Tomorrow People (4wks 20-11-13-30)

31 Cheap Trick - The Flame (5wks 29-13-8-12-31)
32 Inspiral Carpets - Keep The Circle Around (2wks 35-32)
33 Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana (5wks 23-18-15-17-33)
34 Icicle Works - Here Comes Trouble (2wks 36-34)
35 Pogues - Fiesta (2wks 32-35)
36 Cyndi Lauper - Hole In My Heart (1wk 36 NEW)
37 Eric Carmen - Make Me Lose Control (1wk 37 NEW)
38 Blue Mercedes - Love Is The Gun (1wk 38 NEW)
39 Ellis Beggs & Howard - Big Bubbles No Troubles (5wks 20-8-9-19-39)
40 UB40 ft Chrissie Hynde - Breakfast In Bed (5wks 34-15-13-21-40)

[popchartfreak]

30th July 1988

It's a first week on top for Kim Wilde - ever! Not even Kids In America had managed to top my chart, but she finally got one in the bag 7 years on with the fab You Came, a big comeback for her. This week I went to Wembley Stadium where Kim was supporting Michael Jackson. I should specify I went with 2 mates, with the idea of parking near Wembley Stadium, because we couldn't get tickets to the bloody concert, so we had a day going round record megastores looking for rarities, and then headed back to catch the gig listening outside, where Kim duly did You Came. Does that sound sad? Whatever! Paul Young walked by us sat on a wall with a beautiful leggy model attached to him. I got to see Jacko (still at 2 in my chart) a few years later but Kim took a lot longer - an 80's tour after she'd been away from music gardening and bringing up kids. She was fab and have since seen her about 4 times, including literally 5 minutes walk away at Upton Country Park, and in rural Dorset for an acoustic-ish Xmas album and song singalong.

The Four Tops shoot into the top 5 for the first time since 1981, Donny Osmond into the top 10 for the first time since Puppy Love in 1972 (or 1973 if you include Osmonds records, and the rockin' Going Home), and B.V.S.M.P. enter at 8 with I Need You, which I don't recall hearing since I obviously went big on it rather quickly. Playing it now - rap/dance, very 1988, teenage boys. Err, not that great, presumably why it never went higher than it's entry position. In at 20, though, a genuine classic. Mory Kante's timeless dance banger with Guinea rhythms and lyrics, Ye Ke Ye Ke, which may well be the best track in this top 40 from the lofty viewpoint of 32 years.

Julia Fordham enters with the lovely Happy Ever After, one I bought as an early budget CD designed to get it to chart, at 23, and Yazz' monster roars up to 31 the only way truly is up. S'Express get a second top 40, and Gogo's Jane Wiedlin gets a big solo hit with the fab Rush Hour 5 years after getting her co-write Fun Boy 3 song Our Lips Are Sealed on top of my chart. Rod Stewart is Forever Young at 38. Chart position, not age. He was older than 38. All About Eve return with their infamously silent-mimed on TOTP Martha's Harbour, their best track, but catastrophically the sound in the studio went off on a live show and they sat their like goldfish unable to hear a thing.

Dollar bounce back, It's Nature's Way (No Problem) - I caught them on the aforementioned 80's tour with Kim Wilde, and later David Van Day escaped to star in a disastrously bad stage comedy farce. When I say "bad" I don't mean in the Michael Jackson sense, I mean in the "ohmygod this is torturously bad" sense. I think it both opened and closed in Bournemouth. I hope so anyway. Still love Dollar records though. Hey ho. The Band's Robbie Robertson gets a solo debut 20 years after their heyday, and 17 years since Joan Baez went top 10 with his song The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Somewhere Down The Lazy River is pure sultry Delta Blues and fab.



1 ( 5 ) YOU CAME Kim Wilde
2 ( 2 ) DIRTY DIANA Michael Jackson
3 ( 1 ) MONKEY (REMIX) George Michael
4 ( 3 ) IN THE AIR TONIGHT (1988) Phil Collins
5 ( 18 ) REACH OUT I'LL BE THERE (REMIX) The Four Tops
6 ( 9 ) NEVER TEAR US APART INXS
7 ( 4 ) FOOLISH BEAT Debbie Gibson
8 ( NEW ) I NEED YOU B.V.S.M.P.
9 ( 28 ) SOLDIER OF LOVE Donny Osmond
10 ( 10 ) NOWHERE TO RUN Martha & The Vandellas

11 ( 7 ) I WANT YOUR LOVE Transvision Vamp
12 ( 8 ) THE FLAME Cheap Trick
13 ( 6 ) MY GIRL AND ME Gangway
14 ( 23 ) I SAY NOTHING Voice Of The Beehive
15 ( 20 ) PUSH IT Salt 'n' Pepa
16 ( 12 ) HEAT IT UP Wee Papa Girl Rappers featuring 2 Men & A Drum Machine
17 ( 29 ) WHAT CAN I SAY TO MAKE YOU LOVE ME Alexander O'Neal
18 ( 19 ) SYMPTOM OF TRUE LOVE Tracie Spencer
19 ( 11 ) I WILL BE WITH YOU T'Pau
20 ( NEW ) YE KE YE KE Mory Kante

21 ( 30 ) FIND MY LOVE Fairground Attraction
22 ( 37 ) ROSES ARE RED The Mac Band/ McCampbell Brothers
23 ( NEW ) HAPPY EVER AFTER Julia Fordham
24 ( 13 ) TOMORROW PEOPLE Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
25 ( 17 ) WILD WORLD Maxi Priest
26 ( 26 ) GOD GAVE ROCK 'N' ROLL TO YOU Dennis Greaves & The Truth
27 ( 40 ) HAND TO HEAVEN Breathe
28 ( 33 ) FIESTA The Pogues
29 ( 14 ) NITE AND DAY Al B. Sure!
30 ( 24 ) CIRCLE IN THE SAND Belinda Carlisle

31 ( 60 ) THE ONLY WAY IS UP Yazz & The Plastic Population
32 ( 48 ) SUPERFLY GUY S'Express
33 ( 15 ) ANYTHING FOR YOU Gloria Estefan
34 ( 34 ) GLAM SLAM Prince
35 ( 16 ) CROSS MY HEART Eighth Wonder
36 ( 31 ) ONE MORE TRY George Michael
37 ( NEW ) RUSH HOUR Jane Wiedlin
38 ( NEW ) FOREVER YOUNG Rod Stewart
39 ( 39 ) SUGAR SUGAR (CANDYFLOSS MIX)/(ORIGINAL VERSION) The Archies
40 ( 22 ) BREAKFAST IN BED UB40/ Chrissie Hynde

41 ( 25 ) PARADISE Sade
42 ( 42 ) HEART Pet Shop Boys
43 ( NEW ) MARTHA'S HARBOUR All About Eve
44 ( 35 ) I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT Everything But The Girl
45 ( 21 ) NO CONVERSATION View From The Hill
46 ( 32 ) YOU HAVE PLACED A CHILL IN MY HEART Eurythmics
47 ( RE ) BEATIN' THE HEAT Jack 'n' Chill
48 ( NEW ) IT'S NATURE'S WAY (NO PROBLEM) Dollar
49 ( 62 ) MAD ABOUT YOU Belinda Carlisle
50 ( 27 ) STOP Sam Brown

51 ( 50 ) WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield
52 ( 51 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac
53 ( NEW ) SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LAZY RIVER Robbie Robertson
54 ( 55 ) HELLO GOODBYE The Beatles
55 ( 36 ) THERE'S MORE TO LOVE The Communards
56 ( 49 ) ALPHABET STREET Prince
57 ( NEW ) HUSTLE (TO THE MUSIC) Funky Worm
58 ( 44 ) EVERY DAY IS LIKE SUNDAY Morrissey
59 ( 58 ) YOU WIN AGAIN The Bee Gees
60 ( 67 ) PERFECT WORLD Huey Lewis & The News

61 ( 47 ) SOMEWHERE IN MY HEART Aztec Camera
62 ( 65 ) LOVE BITES Def Leppard
63 ( 61 ) I WANT YOU BACK/ I WANT YOU BACK ('88 remix) The Jackson 5
64 ( 64 ) MAN IN THE MIRROR MIchael Jackson
65 ( 66 ) WHY DID YOU DO IT Groove Train
66 ( 46 ) TRIBUTE (RIGHT ON) The Pasadenas
67 ( 45 ) CHAINS OF LOVE Erasure
68 ( 73 ) FEEL THE NEED IN ME Shakin' Stevens
69 ( 70 ) BAD Michael Jackson
70 ( 75 ) ALL FIRED UP Pat Benatar

71 ( 63 ) IS IT LOVE YOU'RE AFTER/ CAR WASH Rose Royce
72 ( 71 ) JOE LE TAXI Vanessa Paradis
73 ( 41 ) FAST CAR Tracey Chapman
74 ( NEW ) WORKING IN A GOLDMINE Aztec Camera
75 ( 74 ) ALWAYS ON MY MIND Pet Shop Boys


FAVE OLDIES/ALBUM TRACKS OF THE WEEK
1 ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC The Archies
2 WAY OF LIFE Family Dogg
3 YOU CAME (Live at Wembley Stadium) Kim Wilde
4 ANOTHER PART OF ME (Live at Wembley Stadium) Michael Jackson
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[Smurfie]

1. Everything But The Girl - I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT
2. Siouxsie And The Banshees - PEEK A BOO
3. Kim Wilde - YOU CAME
4. Hazell Dean - MAYBE (WE SHOULD CALL IT A DAY)
5. S-Express - SUPERFLY GUY
6. Eighth Wonder - CROSS MY HEART
7. Sabrina - BOYS (SUMMERTIME LOVE)
8. Brother Beyond - THE HARDER I TRY
9. Kylie Minogue - GOT TO BE CERTAIN
10. Debbie Gibson - FOOLISH BEAT
11. Breathe - HANDS TO HEAVEN
12. Pat Benatar - ALL FIRED UP
13. All About Eve - MARTHA'S HARBOUR
14. Mac Band Featuring The McCampbell Brothers - ROSES ARE RED
15. Alexander O'Neal - (WHAT CAN I SAY) TO MAKE YOU LOVE ME
16. Voice Of The Beehive - I SAY NOTHING
17. Transvision Vamp - I WANT YOUR LOVE
18. Gloria Estefan And Miami Sound Machine - ANYTHING FOR YOU
19. Four Tops - REACH OUT I'LL BE THERE
20. Desireless - VOYAGE VOYAGE

[Smurfie]

So many great new entries this week!

Peek-A-Boo is brilliant.