Retro Chart Trivia

29th April 1987: Madonna, whose favourite drink is Campari and grapefruit juice (bleurgh!) turned down a staggering £25k per minute fee for a ten minute role in the next James Bond 007 movie, The Living Daylights, because Sean Penn didn’t get offered a starring role too! La Isla Bonita spends a second week at no.1 while the no.1 album True Blue is a non-mover at no.11! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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29th April 1987: In their spare time, Five Star Official love nothing more than gathering in Doris’ room, because she has the largest bed, eating choc ices in bed and having a real attack of the giggles! The Slightest Touch is up four places to no.4 and the no.1 album Silk And Steel is a non-mover at no.14! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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29th April 1987: Reaction to Ferry Aid’s Let It Be within the music industry varies enormously between embarrassment, cageyness and utter revulsion. One major record company spokesman, whose artists were involved, said: ‘I personally think everyone was too scared NOT to do it because The Sun has so much power. The whole thing is very tacky though. It stinks from start to finish.’ Gosh! The former no.1 moves down 13 places to no.17! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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29th April 1987: #Starship Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now, from the hit movie #Mannequin, has been knocked off the top of the charts in Norway by #GaryMoore’s Over The Hills And Far Away. It made it all the way to the top in the US. Can it do it here? It’s this week’s highest climber up 12 places to no.3! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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Hi! I’m Mad Lizzie Webb! It’s the 29th April 1987 and there’s a brand new episode of Chart Trivia out today! Listen below! Which pop star used to be a male stripper, taking off his garments for housewives for £50 a time? Whose frontman is going to vote for the SDP in the general election and thinks Dr #DavidOwen is the best politician in Britain? Who scurried backstage with CAMEO’s #LarryBlackmon, emerging hours later proclaiming: ‘Larry’s so big! He’s huge!’ It’s all here in this week’s Chart Trivia on 29th April 1987! Link in the bio! Starring Five Star Official, Mel & Kim, Judy Boucher, Madonna, Jefferson Starship, @u2 and a cast of thousands! Listen below!
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15th April 1982: Congratulations dishy #DavidVanDay and tantalising Thereza Bazar! The Dollar duo secretly wed at a ceremony at a small branch of the unification church in Neasden! Trevor Horn was best man! Co-incidentally, Give Me Back My Heart moves up two places to no.5! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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15th April 1982: Naughty yodelling Steve Grant of Tight Fit nearly bared all on Top of the Pops when he wore no knickers underneath his loincloth! The Lion Sleeps Tonight is down 11 places to no.31 and a new single, Fantasy Island is out next week! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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15th April 1982: Terry Hall spotted Bananarama in THE FACE UK [The cult of a Magazine] and decided to see if they could sing or dance because he liked their shoes. Their second collaboration is Really Saying Something and it moves up 13 places to no.24! Meanwhile the Fun Boy Three’s debut album moves back up six places to no.21. All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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15th April 1982: Chas of Chas & Dave (official) was once a member of the Outlaws along with Ritchie Blackmore Official Site of Rainbow, where they earned a fearsome reputation for lobbing flour bombs from the band’s van as they drove through crowded shopping centres! Ain’t No Pleasing You is up two places to no.4 and the album Mustn’t Grumble is a new entry at no.62! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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15th April 1982: After Sally Ann Triplett left school, she joined the circus and rode a hairy elephant. Bardo are this year’s Eurovision Song Contest hopefuls with the tremendous One Step Further which is this week’s highest new entry at no.16! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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A new episode of Retro Chart Trivia, 15th April 1982 is out today with me, #PenelopeKeith! Listen below!
Starring Chas & Dave (official), Bardo, Bucks Fizz/The Fizz, Tight Fit, The Official Toni Basil, The Associates and a cast of thousands!
Which pop star was once run over by an ice cream van? Which tennis star has been approached by Elton John’s Rocket record label to record a single this summer? Has the ‘is she really going out with him’ saga of Clare Grogan's Altered Ima...ges and Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet (Official) finally been nipped in the bud? It’s all here in this week’s Chart Trivia on 15th April 1982! Listen below!
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1st April 1981: Catch this terrific Talking Heads (official) back page poster in the current issue of Smash Hits as captured by the incredible Lynn Goldsmith Photography 🎉 Meanwhile, Once In A Lifetime is down 10 to no.37 and the album Remain In Light is down 7 to no.36! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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1st April 1981: #ShakinStevens says his worst ever experience was during his West End musical, when his toe got trapped in a revolving stage’s trap door! This Ole House spends a second week at the top of the singles chart and the album of the same name is a new entry at no.37! Congratulations, Shaky! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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1st April 1981: Viewers in the Midlands can catch Toyah every Tuesday throughout March/April as she co/hosts BBC Birmingham’s Look Hear with #ChrisPhipps. Toyah is also filming an episode for Tales of the Unexpected - A story called Blue Marigolds, in which she will play a character called Myra. The Four From Toyah EP, containing It’s A Mystery, is down two places to no.6 and the album Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! is down eight places to no.30! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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1st April 1981: When #AdamAndTheAnts were booked for their first gig at the ICA, they told the gallery they were a Country & Western band. Then Adam Ant came on in his leathers and a rapist mask and scared the crap out of people. They performed ‘Beat My Guest’ and were thrown off! But they managed to finish their set when poet #JohnDownie invited them to play in his interval elsewhere in the building and they went down a storm! Meanwhile, Kings Of The Wild Frontier moves down 13 places to no.18 and the album of the same name is sitting pretty at the top of the album chart for the 6th non-consecutive week! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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1st April 1981: #MikeNolan of The Fizz/Bucks Fizz, who represent the UK at this Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest, once got caned at school for taking the whole class out for two and a half hours, just to buy Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit In The Sky! And congratulations Bucks Fizz, Making Your Mind Up is this week’s highest climber, up 19 places to no.5! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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Hi! Elsie Tanner here with the brand new episode of Chart Trivia: 1st April 1981! Listen below! Who is more than a little miffed about his pet red-kneed tarantula, Doris, who’s gone off her daily diet of locusts and appears terribly ill? Which band are Phil Oakey of The Human League’s favourite group? Win a Ferguson Videostar 3V22 video cassette recorder in the Smash Hits/Visage video competition! It’s all here in this week’s Chart Trivia on 1st April 1981! Starring The Fizz - Bucks Fizz, Talking Heads (official), Kim Wilde, Toyah, #ShakinStevens, Ultravox (Official) and a cast of thousands! Listen below!
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18th March 1986: Whitney Houston recently confessed that, having succeeded as a top model and superstar songstress, what she really aches to do is be a vet! Meanwhile, How Will I Know moves down 12 places to no.24 and her self titled debut album is down one place to no.3! All this and more trivia in this week’s show - listen below!
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