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Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 5-1
5 Visage: Fade to Grey In many ways, this was the spiritual sequel to our number 20 single, David Bowie’s Ashes To Ashes. Visage frontman Steve Strange stepped out of…
Top 100 Singles of the Eighties: 10-6
10 Propaganda: Duel It’s actually quite incredible that Propaganda manage to gatecrash our Top 10 when they released so little music in the Eighties (and have released next-to-nothing in the…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 15-11
15 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Enola Gay Not OMD’s biggest chart hit – even Locomotion got higher – but their most well-loved. Possibly because it summed up everything that…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 20-16
20 David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes We’ve come across several singles in the Top 100 that bridged the gap between Eighties pop and Nineties pop. And this was the one…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 25-21
25 Erasure: Sometimes The first of two high-scoring entries for Erasure, and proof that if any one musician dominates UK Eighties pop – and this Top 100 – it’s Vince…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 30-26
The Top 100 Singles of the 80s countdown continues… 30 Frankie Goes To Hollywood: The Power of Love While Relax and Two Tribes, the first two Frankie singles, are remembered…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 40-31
Our Top 100 Singles of the 80s countdown continues… 40 Electronic: Getting Away With It This may be Electronic’s only appearance in our chart, but all of the group’s members…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 50-41
Our Top 100 Singles of the 80s countdown continues… 50 Soft Cell: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye By reaching number three in the UK charts in 1982, Say Hello, Wave Goodbye…