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Aug 10, 20164 min read
This Week In 1986: August 10, 1986
Prince and Michael Jackson get all the glory, but they weren't the only American male artists who dominated the charts during the '80s....
Aug 3, 20163 min read
This Week In 1986: August 3, 1986
For every band that's become a success over the years, selling records and touring to packed houses, there have been many more that...
Jul 27, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: July 27, 1986
There's a lot to be said about going out while you're still on top. Just ask The Beatles. Or Take That (the first time around). Yes, I...
Jul 20, 20164 min read
This Week In 1986: July 20, 1986
Cover versions are tricky things. Get them right and they can provide you with major chart success. Get them too right and they will...
Jul 13, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: July 13, 1986
All these years later, it's easy to forget just how successful some '80s bands were. There's a tendency to dwell on the couple of massive...
Jul 6, 20163 min read
This Week In 1986: July 6, 1986
Second albums are so notoriously difficult they've got a syndrome named after them — and the band behind the highest new entry on the...
Jun 29, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: June 29, 1986
What would the '80s have been without one-hit wonders? Some of the decade's best songs — and some of the worst — came from acts that only...
Jun 22, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: June 22, 1986
So far, 1986 hadn't let the side down when it came to big soundtrack hits — with singles like "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get...
Jun 15, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: June 15, 1986
Music videos really were inventive in the 1980s — and a key component of many clips that are now considered classics was the use of...
Jun 8, 20166 min read
This Week In 1986: June 8, 1986
What a year 1986 was for music and what a week it was this week that year, when eight new songs entered the ARIA top 50 — and I love...
Jun 1, 20163 min read
This Week In 1986: June 1, 1986
So far in our trip back to the hits from the mid-'80s, we've seen a number of songs with a conscience — charity records, political...
May 25, 20163 min read
This Week In 1986: May 25, 1986
A couple of weeks ago, we saw the chart debut of one of my all-time top 5 Australian bands. This week in 1986, another of my favourite...
May 18, 20164 min read
This Week In 1986: May 18, 1986
The great thing about the charts in the '80s was that you really didn't know what was going to crack the top 50 next. Pop acts were...
May 11, 20164 min read
This Week In 1986: May 11, 1986
In 1985, we'd heard her first musical change of pace, but this week in 1986, pop's mistress of reinvention debuted her first major image...
May 4, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: May 4, 1986
I don't like novelty singles. That won't come as news to regular readers who know my feelings about songs like "Five In A Row", "Stutter...
Apr 27, 20164 min read
This Week In 1986: April 27, 1986
Michael Jackson turning into a zombie, Madonna kissing an African-American Jesus, a-ha's Morten Harket pulling a woman into an animated...
Apr 20, 20164 min read
This Week In 1986: April 20, 1986
A lot can change in two years, especially when it comes to pop music. This week in 1986, four bands returned to the ARIA top 50 with...
Apr 13, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: April 13, 1986
This week in 1986, my favourite group of all time entered the ARIA top 50 with their debut single. Of course, they weren't yet my...
Apr 6, 20164 min read
This Week In 1986: April 6, 1986
Cover versions. Where would pop be without them? Other than the odd tropical house remake, you don't get so many of them these days, but...
Mar 30, 20165 min read
This Week In 1986: March 30, 1986
It wasn't that unusual for a song that reached number 1 in Australia during the 1980s not to do so well in the US. But, it was rare when...
