The Popjustice Retrochart 100 - February 1985 - w/e 23/02/85

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01 01 01 07 I Want To Know What Love Is Foreigner FIFTH WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
02 03 02 24 Careless Whisper George Michael
03 04 03 05 Easy Lover Philip Bailey & Phil Collins
04 06 04 04 Loverboy Billy Ocean
05 02 02 12 Like A Virgin Madonna
06 07 06 04 Solid Ashford & Simpson
07 05 01 11 Do They Know It's Christmas Band Aid
08 08 08 04 One Night In Bangkok Murray Head
09 09 09 02 I Know Him So Well Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson
10 --- 10 01 Shout Tears For Fears

 

01 01 01 08 I Know Him So Well Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson 111,000 THIRD WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
02 02 02 07 Love & Pride King 96,000
03 03 03 08 Solid Ashford & Simpson 58,000
04 04 04 14 Dancing In The Dark Bruce Springsteen 54,000
05 19 05 13 You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) Dead Or Alive 51,000
06 07 06 03 Things Can Only Get Better Howard Jones 45,000
07 10 07 06 A New England Kirsty MacColl 39,000
08 09 08 14 Close (To The Edit) Art Of Noise 38,000
09 17 09 05 Nightshift Commodores 35,000
10 06 02 05 1999 / Little Red Corvette Prince 35,000

Chart Entries
#27 Let's Go Crazy / Take Me With U Prince & The Revolution
#30 Theme From 'Shaft' Eddy & The Soul Band
#42 Legs (Special U.S. Remix) ZZ Top
#46 Hangin' On A String (Contemplating) Loose Ends
#50 You Should Have Known Better T C Curtis
#51 Falling Angels Riding David Essex
#56 I'm So Happy Julia & Company
#66 Operator Midnight Star
#67 The Last Kiss David Cassidy
#68 We Close Our Eyes Go West
#69 Move Closer (New Remix Edit) Phyllis Nelson
#70 Mr Telephone Man New Edition
#72 California Girls David Lee Roth
#75 The Belle Of St. Mark Sheila E.

Further UK charts and stats can be found here.

 

01 01 01 10 Careless Whisper George Michael SECOND WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
02 04 02 13 Loverboy Billy Ocean
03 03 02 14 Easy Lover Phillip Bailey & Phil Collins
04 07 04 06 Can't Fight This Feeling REO Speedwagon
05 02 01 12 I Want To Know What Love Is Foreigner
06 06 06 14 Neutron Dance Pointer Sisters
07 08 07 12 The Heat Is On Glenn Frey
08 10 08 06 California Girls David Lee Roth
09 05 05 11 Method Of Modern Love Hall & Oates
10 11 10 10 Sugar Walls Sheena Easton

Chart News
#60 Along Comes A Woman Chicago
#65 All She Wants To Do Is Dance Don Henley
#70 Say It Again Santana
#81 One Night In Bangkok Murray Head
#85 The Bird Time
#90 Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds
#92 Look My Way Vels
#95 We Close Our Eyes Go West

Further US charts and stats can be found here.

 

01 01 01 11 Like A Virgin Madonna THIRD WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
02 05 02 08 Do They Know Its Christmas Band Aid
03 03 03 08 I Want To Know What Love Is Foreigner
04 02 01 24 Ghostbusters Ray Parker Jr.
05 04 04 08 Everything She Wants / Last Christmas Wham!
06 16 06 12 One Night In Bangkok Murray Head
07 06 06 09 Shout Tears For Fears
08 09 08 05 Loverboy Billy Ocean
09 11 09 04 Sussudio Phil Collins
10 08 01 24 I Just Called To Say I Love You Stevie Wonder

Chart Entries
#46 Just Another Night Mick Jagger
#71 Boys Of Summer Don Henley
#72 Change Your Mind Sharpe & Numan
#75 Melissa Julien Clerc
#90 Misled Kool & The Gang
#98 Helpless (You Took My Love) The Flirts
#99 The Power Of Love Jennifer Rush

Further european charts and stats can be found here.

 

01 02 01 17 When The Rain Begins To Fall Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora THIRD WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
02 01 01 17 Ghostbusters Ray Parker Jr.
03 04 03 08 Square Rooms Al Corley
04 03 03 16 Careless Whisper George Michael
05 11 05 03 One Night In Bangkok Murray Head
06 05 01 17 I Just Called To Say I Love You Stevie Wonder
07 07 01 17 Besoin De Rien, Envie De Toi Peter et Sloane
08 18 08 10 Fotonovela Ivan
09 06 05 17 Un Autre Monde Telephone
10 08 08 08 Like A Virgin Madonna

Chart Entries
#17 The Lost Opera Kimera & The Operaiders
#36 Do What You Do Jermaie Jackson

 

01 01 01 08 Shout Tears For Fears FOURTH WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
02 06 02 03 This Is Not America David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group
03 09 03 03 Ik meen't Andre Hazes
04 02 02 09 Easy Lover Philip Bailey & Phil Collins
05 04 04 06 Do What You Do Jermaine Jackson
06 07 06 11 I Want To Know What Love Is Foreigner
07 08 07 06 Loverboy Billy Ocean
08 05 03 09 Solid Ashford & Simpson
09 03 01 09 One Night In Bangkok Murray Head
10 --- 10 01 Sharpe Dressed Man ZZ Top

Chart Entries
#18 Nightshift Commodores
#24 Since Yesterday Strawberry Switchblade
#27 Purple Mix S.B.B.L.
#42 You're My Heart, You're My Soul Modern Talking
#45 Hallo, Hallo Corrie van Gorp
#46 Love & Pride King
#48 De eindeloze polonaise - Potpourri Various

 

01 01 01 06 I Want To Know What Love Is Foreigner SECOND WEEK AT NUMBER ONE
02 02 01 09 Do They Know It's Christmas Band Aid
03 03 03 10 Last Christmas Wham!
04 04 01 14 Like A Virgin Madonna
05 06 05 09 Sexcrime (1984) Eurythmics
06 08 06 05 The Riddle Nik Kershaw
07 07 05 14 Together In Electric Dreams Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakey
08 14 08 06 Never Ending Story Limahl
09 17 09 06 Ti Amo Laura Branigan
10 05 04 10 The Power Of Love Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Chart Entries
#37 The Boys of Summer DON HENLEY
#40 Money Changes Everything CYNDI LAUPER
#46 Gimme Some Loving GANGgajang
#50 Invisible ALISON MOYET

 

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Here we go with this week's Retrochart. The Makers and Shakers - are these songs in your Retrochart yet?
Number 50 - New Edition return after almost a two year absence. Their new single is called "Mr Telephone man" and was written by Ray Parker Junior:

 

Number 49 - new entry for new comers Go West (from Twickenham in South West London) and their debut single "We close our eyes":

 

Number 47 - new entry for Loose Ends who are back! with a brand new single called "Hangin' on a string":

 

There are two "Eagles" in the HMV Retrochart at the moment:
Don Henley is climbing steadily at Number 13, meanwhile Glenn Frey enters at Number 46 with a song from the film "Beverley Hills Cop" called "The heat is on":

 

This week is a week of came backs as at Number 43 is a new entry for David Cassidy with "The last kiss" and yes that IS George Michael on backing vocals!