Every UK #1 Single of The 1980's Discussion Thread.

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wk1

Week Ending 27 March 1982

 

It does.....

 

wk2.....loads of brill singles!!

Week Ending 03 April 1982

 

wk3....

Week Ending 10 April 1982

 

"JUST AN ILLUSION" was a song I bought on a K-Tel compilation, and I really liked it. Very sensual. Bought the Imagination albums I could find. I don´t play them often, but i do like them.

 

I thought they released some great singles in '81 & '82.
They did a 12" Remix album in '83 called Night Dubbing....its very good.

 

They are one of the few bands who knew when to leave... (Not willingly, of course.) They gave us some great singles, and then the world moved on. Great while they lasted.

 

One country where the Goombay Dance Band record was not released was the United States. As for what would be in my collection from this stretch - well, let's see . . .

In the U.S., A Flock Of Seagulls' number was entitled "I Ran (So Far Away)" . . .

 

1 - NEW - 71 - Fashion - STREET PLAYER

I can remember seeing the billposts and adverts for this band and their debut album.
They were mooted as the next big thing...but it never happened for them.
Few years later my now ex-wife introduced me to their album...and I have always liked it since.

 

1 - NEW - 72 - Scorpions - NO ONE LIKE YOU

This is a great song by a German band which is far better than the crap at number one!

 

1 - NEW - 66 - A Flock Of Seagulls - I RAN

This one only reached number 43 in the UK but was a top 10 hit in the US and a number one in Australia.

 

Now for a bunch of new entries' labels . . .

QUOTE="Yam Graham, post: 21216813, member: 2628"]1 - NEW - 57 - Shalamar - I CAN MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD[/QUOTE]

 

In the U.S., this single was issued before "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)"; "Private Eyes" had a brief spell at the top before giving way to the juggernaut that was Olivia Newton-John's "Physical."

 

From a great album....Blackout.

 

Nice to see some classic '80s pop songs like See Those Eyes, Nowhere Girl, More Than This and Promised You a Miracle showing up on the charts.

That one is amusing! I'm no reggae fan but it's a winner ...

 

Seven tears - sounds too much like Auld lang syne and something else. Maybe some Irish folk song?

Unbelievable charts, so many wonderful singles! Maiden, Slade, Motörhead, Altered Images, Flock of Seagulls, Girlschool ... Scorpions' No one like you, an instant classic, possibly my fave track by the "new" (post-Uli) Scorps. Girlschool's Screaming blue murder LP, the first one without Enid is not quite as good as the first two but it's still very good, after that I reckon they started to lose track for a while.

 

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17th April 1982

Bucks Fizz - My Camera Never Lies

1 Week At No 1

7th No 1 of 1982 and No 498 in total.




"My Camera Never Lies" is a 1982 single by pop group Bucks Fizz. It became the group's second consecutive (and third overall) UK number-one in April 1982.[2] The song was written by Andy Hill and Nichola Martin,[1] and was featured on Bucks Fizz's second album Are You Ready.

Background
"My Camera Never Lies" was written by Andy Hill and Nichola Martin and produced by Andy Hill.[1] Hill was the group's regular songwriter and producer, while Martin had been the woman who had put the group together and occasionally co-wrote some songs. This was her only No. 1 hit, although she also co-penned the follow-up, "Now Those Days Are Gone", which was a top 10 hit. Hill recorded the male vocals first since they were more straightforward and then added in the female parts. He considered the middle section with the members repeating "my camera" at each other to be the most complex part, but commended the group for mastering this sequence without prior rehearsal.[3] The lyrics concern a man who is following his partner around to investigate her actions. The "camera" of the title being his view of the situation.[3]

The promotional video which accompanied the song begins with shots of the group in a white room dressed in new romantic-style clothes. The group members are seen singing the song to camera (sometimes through an Olympus 35mm lens) in a blue-tinged studio. The chorus sees them performing the song's dance routine to camera while intercut with split-screen effects of all four members. Interspersed through the video are quick snippets of the group re-enacting scenes from famous movies including Bonnie and Clyde, Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz and Cleopatra.[4] Member Cheryl Baker was dressed as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz clip but has since confirmed that the other characters depicted were not Bucks Fizz but production personnel[citation needed].


Release and reception
"My Camera Never Lies" was released on 12 March 1982 and entered the UK Singles chart at No. 35. The following week it rose dramatically to No. 5. Two weeks later it became the third UK number one single for Bucks Fizz for a single week in April 1982,[1] and saw the group reach the peak of their career, being the follow-up to "The Land of Make Believe", which had also reached No. 1 a few months earlier.[5] The single was one of the group's biggest hits and after a swift fall from the top, remained on the chart for eight weeks. This was to be the group's final No. 1, but gave Bucks Fizz their third chart topper in 12 months.[5] It was one of the top 40 selling singles of the year. It peaked at No. 2 in Ireland but fared less well in other countries.[6]

With this song, Bucks Fizz found themselves in favour with the music press who were normally damning of 'middle-of-the-road' pop.[3] The song is considered by the group's fans to be among their best, while member Mike Nolan considers it one of their most mature singles but perhaps was released too early in their career. The single received a positive review in NME saying "[it] is a complex, almost excessive record that transcends the sphere of commercial mush into which it is born" comparing it to Heatwave, ABBA and contemporaries Dollar saying that "its almost too good to succeed".[7] In 2015, Guardian journalist Bob Stanley commented favourably on the song calling it their "key record" albeit "relatively forgotten [for a number one single]". He goes on to say "ushered in on aerated harmonies, it cuts to a hard, shiny acoustic guitar riff and a lyric that could be about the narcissistic dullness of having 'made it', or the paranoia of surveillance, followed by a 'camera-ra-ra-ra' wherever you go".[8] The same publication's reviewer Tom Ewing said that "My Camera Never Lies" was "trying to cram all of new wave and new pop into a single super-compressed hybrid, halfway between Devo and Dollar".[8] Stanley also goes on to mention the single's B-side "What Am I Gonna Do" commenting on it switching from pop to rock between verse and chorus saying; "Does it hang together? Incredibly, it does".[8]

"My Camera Never Lies" featured on the group's second album, Are You Ready, released two months later. It featured a slightly longer version which extends the ending with overlaid drum sounds which then blend into the next track "Easy Love". Another extended version of the song was released on 12" single. A slight reworking with some re-recorded vocals was released on The Lost Masters album in 2006. In 2012 The Original Bucks Fizz re-recorded the song on their album Fame and Fortune? in a completely reworked slow-tempo style.

 

Week Ending 17 April 1982

04 - 02 - 01 - Bucks Fizz - MY CAMERA NEVER LIES
06 - 04 - 02 - Chas And Dave - AIN'T NO PLEASING YOU
02 - 19 - 03 - Paul McCartney And Stevie Wonder - EBONY AND IVORY
08 - 01 - 04 - Goombay Dance Band - SEVEN TEARS
04 - 07 - 05 - Dollar - GIVE ME BACK MY HEART
03 - 06 - 06 - Roxy Music - MORE THAN THIS
05 - 05 - 07 - Japan - GHOSTS
07 - 03 - 08 - Imagination - JUST AN ILLUSION
03 - 30 - 09 - Pigbag - PAPA'S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG
04 - 13 - 10 - Status Quo - DEAR JOHN
04 - 17 - 11 - Altered Images - SEE THOSE EYES
06 - 11 - 12 - Classix Nouveaux - IS IT A DREAM
06 - 10 - 13 - Leo Sayer - HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE
09 - 14 - 14 - Nolans - DON'T LOVE ME TOO HARD
03 - 16 - 15 - Shakatak - NIGHT BIRDS
02 - 43 - 16 - Bardo - ONE STEP FURTHER
04 - 23 - 17 - Elton John - BLUE EYES
07 - 08 - 18 - Derek And The Dominoes - LAYLA
02 - 32 - 19 - Haircut 100 - FANTASTIC DAY
04 - 27 - 20 - Shalamar - I CAN MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD
08 - 18 - 21 - Foster And Allen - A BUNCH OF THYME
06 - 12 - 22 - Visage - DAMNED DON'T CRY
07 - 09 - 23 - Julio Iglesias - QUIEREME MUCHO (YOURS)
02 - 37 - 24 - Bananarama With Fun Boy Three - REALLY SAYING SOMETHING
02 - 35 - 25 - England World Cup Squad - THIS TIME (WE'LL GET IT RIGHT)
05 - 24 - 26 - Boomtown Rats - HOUSE ON FIRE
09 - 15 - 27 - ABC - POISON ARROW
03 - 39 - 28 - Monsoon - EVER SO LONELY
06 - 25 - 29 - Elvis Presley - ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT?
03 - 29 - 30 - Motorhead - IRON FIST
13 - 20 - 31 - Tight Fit - THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT
02 - 45 - 32 - David Bowie - CAT PEOPLE (PUTTING OUT FIRE)
09 - 22 - 33 - Associates - PARTY FEARS TWO
02 - 41 - 34 - J. Geils Band - FREEZE-FRAME
11 - 26 - 35 - Toni Basil - MICKEY
07 - 28 - 36 - Pluto - YOUR HONOUR
03 - 34 - 37 - Rainbow - STONE COLD
12 - 33 - 38 - Bow Wow Wow - GO WILD IN THE COUNTRY
05 - 36 - 39 - Barbra Streisand - MEMORY
02 - 59 - 40 - Simple Minds - PROMISED YOU A MIRACLE
12 - 21 - 41 - Adrian Gurvitz - CLASSIC
1 - NEW - 42 - Spandau Ballet - INSTINCTION
04 - 44 - 43 - A Flock Of Seagulls - I RAN
1 - NEW - 44 - Kim Wilde - VIEW FROM A BRIDGE
04 - 56 - 45 - Tygers Of Pan Tang - LOVE POTION NUMBER 9
03 - 52 - 46 - Fashion - STREET PLAYER
02 - 68 - 47 - Daryl Hall And John Oates - PRIVATE EYES
03 - 48 - 48 - PhD - I WON'T LET YOU DOWN
05 - 51 - 49 - Mike Oldfield - FIVE MILES OUT
09 - 38 - 50 - Iron Maiden - RUN TO THE HILLS
02 - 57 - 51 - Elvis Costello - I'M YOUR TOY
09 - 49 - 52 - Madness - CARDIAC ARREST
03 - 47 - 53 - U2 - A CELEBRATION
1 - NEW - 54 - Beat - SAVE IT FOR LATER
10 - 46 - 55 - Fun Boy Three And Bananarama - IT AIN'T WHAT YOU DO IT'S THE WAY THAT YOU DO IT
04 - 50 - 56 - Mobiles - AMOUR AMOUR
06 - 61 - 57 - Vicky D - THE BEAT IS MINE
12 - 40 - 58 - Haircut 100 - LOVE PLUS ONE
10 - 42 - 59 - Depeche Mode - SEE YOU
1 - NEW - 60 - Sharon Brown - I SPECIALISE IN LOVE
1 - NEW - 61 - Olivia Newton-John - MAKE A MOVE ON ME
04 - 58 - 62 - XTC - BALL AND CHAIN
1 - NEW - 63 - Rocky Sharpe And The Replays - SHOUT SHOUT (KNOCK YOURSELF OUT)
02 - 74 - 64 - War - YOU GOT THE POWER
1 - NEW - 65 - Blancmange - GOD'S KITCHEN
07 - 31 - 66 - Gary Numan - MUSIC FOR CHAMELEONS
04 - 70 - 67 - B-Movie - NOWHERE GIRL
03 - 65 - 68 - Scorpions - NO ONE LIKE YOU
07 - 55 - 69 - Kool And The Gang - TAKE MY HEART (YOU CAN HAVE IT IF YOU WANT IT)
1 - NEW - 70 - Barry Manilow - STAY
03 - 54 - 71 - Fureys - I WILL LOVE YOU
1 - NEW - 72 - Yazoo - ONLY YOU
1 - NEW - 73 - Hot Chocolate - GIRL CRAZY
1 - NEW - 74 - Don McLean - CASTLES IN THE AIR
1 - NEW - 75 - Third World - TRY JAH LOVE

 

Bucks Fizz - MY CAMERA NEVER LIES

The music press of the time and the retro hacks really liked this.
I like it...but not as much as their previous single.
Another good un' tho and loads better than the kak that it replaced at No1.
3/5

 

Sorry to break the continuity here, but there is one Bucks Fizz single that I actually love. I can like a few of the others, though I´m not a fan of the group. But one song is just so beautiful - "NOW THOSE DAYS ARE GONE". Glad I found it.

 

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Week Ending 17 April 1982

 

It'll pop up later....

 

"ONLY YOU" is beautiful. I may be stoned for this, but I like both the original Yazoo and The Flying Picket versions of the song. They are very different arrangements of the song, and both show off different aspects of the song´s qualities.