Thursday, March 10, 2016

Gloves Across the Water: UK Top 40 March 25, 1978 Part One

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Welcome to late March 1978.  In America, a rock festival called California Jam II had just drawn over 350,000 people to a speedway in the to...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Gloves Across the Water: UK Top 40 March 25, 1978 Part Two

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It's a chart of two halves, and this is the second one. 2 0 - "If You Can't Give Me Love," Suzi Quatro Born in Detroit ...
Monday, March 7, 2016

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

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More more more. 20 - "Rhythm of My Heart," Rod Stewart Rod's first hit of the decade went Top Five on both sides of the Atl...
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...