Monday, February 29, 2016

Gloves Across the Water: UK Top 40 March 16, 1991

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Now we're in the spring of 1991.  The Gulf War was essentially over, with Saddam Hussein's troops vacating Kuwait.  Meanwhile, in Br...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Gloves Across The Water: UK Top 40 February 27, 1982 Part Two

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And the rest. 20 - "Deutscher Girls," Adam and the Ants For the first three years of the 1980s, Londoner Stuart Goddard and his...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Gloves Across the Water: U.K Top 40 February 27, 1982 Part One

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Yeah, we're in a groove now.  This time, we go to a period where Britain was just over a month away from a war over some islands near Ar...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Gloves Across the Water: UK Top 40 February 14, 1987 Part Two - Plus a Special Announcement

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Big finish 20 - "Rock the Night," Europe The follow-up to "The Final Countdown."  They didn't rock any night as w...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Gloves Across the Water: U.K. Top 40 February 14, 1987 Part One

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Here I am again.  This time we're jumping even farther ahead, as I've decided to see what was playing in merrie olde Blighty around ...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Gloves Across the Water - UK Top 40 January 13, 1979 Part Two

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Finishing. 20 - "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy," Rod Stewart Rod's disco opus.  Is it dumb trendhopping?  Yes.  But I still deri...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Gloves Across The Water : UK Top 40 January 13, 1979 Part One

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I'm back early!  Well, by recent standards.  Although there has been quite a lot of death in the musical realm in my relatively brief ab...