01 Feb 2002
Ashford And Simpson
Some UK Hits: Feb 1985
| 1 |
I Know Him So Well |
| Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson |
| 2 |
Love and Pride |
| King |
| 3 |
Solid |
| Ashford & Simpson |
| 4 |
I Want To Know What Love Is |
| Foreigner |
| 5 |
1999 / Little Red Corvette |
| Prince and The Revolution |
| 6 |
Dancing In The Dark |
| Bruce Springsteen |
| 7 |
Atmosphere |
| Russ Abbot |
| 8 |
Close (To The Edit) |
| Art Of Noise |
| 9 |
Shout |
| Tears For Fears |
| 10 |
A New England |
| Kirsty MacColl |
| 11 |
Run To You |
| Bryan Adams |
| 12 |
Things Can Only Get Better |
| Howard Jones |
| 13 |
Since Yesterday |
| Strawberry Switchblade |
| 14 |
Sussudio |
| Phil Collins |
| 15 |
Loverboy |
| Billy Ocean |
| 16 |
Thinking Of You |
| Colour Field |
| 17 |
You Spin Me Round |
| Dead Or Alive |
| 18 |
Nightshift |
| Commodores |
| 19 |
Like A Virgin |
| Madonna |
| 20 |
Yah Mo B There |
| James Ingram & Michael McDonald |
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 We
have been refused permission to reproduce charts from this era,
so please note that the list of singles on this page does not
represent any one UK chart; compiled from many different
sources, the list is a general guide to the most popular singles of
the month, ordered loosely by sales and peak chart position.
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Dunfermline
women have all got class, and none more so than Barbara Dickson,
who this month combined with Elaine Paige to enjoy her first
No. 1 (it was Elaine's first No. 1 too). Moving down a
bit ... who remembers Ashford and Simpson?
Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson first met in a Harlem church
choir and wrote a large number of songs in the Sixties (including Let's
Go Get Stoned, a US hit for Ray Charles). Solid was
their only UK success, but they have always been busy on production
work and songwriting, and are no strangers to the U.S. soul
charts. They have been married since 1974.
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Bruce
Springsteen was originally marketed as a new Dylan;
thankfully he allowed his Rock side to come to the fore in the
1970's. Dancing in the Dark was Springsteen's
first UK hit single, though of course he was well-known here long
before that (1980 album The River had reached No.
2). A reunion tour last year with the E Street
band was a great success, and Bruce is even talking of another
studio album, saying that recent work with the band had
"cracked the process of beginning to make a studio
album". Bruce is also pleased that the tour allowed
them to "reconstitute the band as an ongoing sort of creative
unit". Yes, you can tell he was born in the USA.
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At
No. 10, a second hit for Kirsty MacColl. Not a
prolific worker - she only made five albums in 20 years -
Kirsty defended her long periods of silence by arguing that if
you've got nothing to say, you're better keeping quiet.
Kirsty was also much in demand as a backing singer, working with the
Rolling Stones, Simple Minds, Talking Heads etc. Her stage
fright meant that she did not appear in concert for most of the
Eighties, but the 1989 album Kite brought her firmly back
into the picture. A 1992 visit to Cuba left her with a passion
for Cuban music, and throughout the 90's she concentrated on
combining the Latin idiom with her own music. In
December 2000, Kirsty died in a boating accident while on holiday in
Mexico.
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