Friday 17 January 2020

Friday's 40th five (no.03/80)

Week by week we're listing 5 tracks which were big music news in the charts, on your radio, on the telly or even in your record collection 40 years ago, this week in 1980:

1. Jon & Vangelis - I Hear You Now: an unlikely debut hit for an unlikely duo - highest new entry at no.25 this week.

2. Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song). Another debut hit for this American singer/songwriter and another new entry at no.38

3. The Regents - 7 Teen. Another debut at no.31 for these post-punksters getting a lot of radio play.

4. Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards. From the band's fourth Peel session, first broadcast this week.

5. New Musik - Living by Numbers. 1980s computer-age ennui starts here. Still outside the Top 40 but on TOTP and tipped for the top.