I Do Enjoy a Nice Number One in the Morning

[Drago]

What's your favourite song that made it to number 1 in the UK charts, and why?

And are there any that you feel deserve to have made number one but which only made the runner up spot, an uncomfortable number 2, or the top 5?

 

[Venod]

Wonder wall (Oasis)
Stuck at no2, no1 was that esteemed duo Robson & Gerome, I believe.

 

[Drago]

Good call. Much as im not an oasis fan that Jobson and Regain song was excruciating.

 

[Stevo 666]

I don't have a favourite number 1 single, but always felt that Ultravox's melancholic masterpiece 'Vienna' was unfairly robbed of the top spot by Joe Dolce's 'Shaddap You Face' back in 1980😊

 

[Drago]

Moonlight Shadow was an incredible song. A defly simple tune, superb vocals, top flight musicianship and possibly one of the best guitar solos in pop, yet it only made number 4.

At the same time Rod Stewart was at number 1 wsith Baby Jane. I don't mind a bit of Rod, in his time he was a real talent, but Baby Jane was so undeserving of outselling Mike Oldfield that week...if indeed it really did as we all know the recording industry hype tactics that were prevalent at the time.

 

[wakemalcolm]

Moonlight Shadow was an incredible song. A defly simple tune, superb vocals, top flight musicianship and possibly one of the best guitar solos in pop, yet it only made number 4.

Best selling single of the year in Austria. Sold well in Switzerland too. Love his work but it sometimes sounds a bit Partridge.

 

[Stevo 666]

I also think that Kirsty MacColl's 'There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis' deserved a number one spot.

 

[Gunk]

Classic 80’s power ballad for me, has to be Foreigner, Ì want to know what love is.

Number 1, 15 January 1985

I can’t believe that Hard habit to break by Chicago only got to position 8 in 1984, epic song!

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[Drago]

Best selling single of the year in Austria. Sold well in Switzerland too. Love his work but it sometimes sounds a bit Partridge.

Aye, he tended to oscillate between genuis and muzak. But moonlight shadow was a fabulous song, supremely well executed.

 

[Big John]

Bohemian Rhapsody. No.1 in November 1975. A great song to sing when you'd had a few.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

"Heroes", by David Bowie only made it to number 24 in 1977.

You'd have no luck finding 23 better songs throughout that decade.

 

[biggs682]

Bohemian Rhapsody. No.1 in November 1975. A great song to sing when you'd had a few.

I first heard this during a drama lesson at the school I attended at the time , I can still remember listening to it.

Around the same time my older sister used to have a turntable in her bedroom that she would often load 6 Bowie albums on to and whilst they were playing she would sneek out her bedroom window and on to the garage roof and out into the nightlife of Weston Super Mare before mum and dad realised ....

 

[Drago]

I first heard this during a drama lesson at the school I attended at the time , I can still remember listening to it.

Around the same time my older sister used to have a turntable in her bedroom that she would often load 6 Bowie albums on to and whilst they were playing she would sneek out her bedroom window and on to the garage roof and out into the nightlife of Weston Super Mare before mum and dad realised ....

I remember as kids were all loved We Are the Champions, and if memory serves Abba's Name of the Game and Mull of Kingtyre kept it down in Nunber 2.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Bohemian Rhapsody. No.1 in November 1975. A great song to sing when you'd had a few.

Can't say I have ever liked that track - a bitty & disjointed mash-up, imo.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Still makes me chunkle today that Mr Blobby stopped Take That's "Babe" from being Xmas '93 #1.