Off The Chart

Another trip back to the '80s to revisit the UK charts and surrounding events from this day in 1985. This week Phil Collins gets blind drunk on cocktails, Bonnie Tyler and Tina Turner have a fight, and the great album strike of summer 1985 takes its toll on the chart. It'll all make sense if you listen.

Come back a full forty years with Steve and Julian as they discuss the UK charts and the day's wider events. This week they invent a new catchphrase, witness a domestic dispute at Peel Acres, and marvel at George Benson's love of Anglia Television. It'll all make sense if you listen.

Back to this day in 1984 for a romp through the UK singles and album charts, as well as a look at the day's news, TV & radio highlights, gigs and an international top ten. All this plus a nightclub for cats, a breeding ground for Level 42 members and what Princess Anne said about Daley Thompson. It'll make sense if you listen.

Steve's been away on a two day microholiday so this week's podcast is even more technically inept than usual, but somewhere in there you'll still find a look at the day's UK charts and wider goings-on, plus the time Bod and his friends formed a band, the one thing Kylie Minogue would change, and the adventures of criminal mastermind husband and wife team Rufus & Chaka Khan. It'll all make sense if you listen.

This week we journey back to this day in 1983 for a look at the UK charts, plus a smattering of news headlines, TV & radio highlights, a small number of gigs and the Italian top ten. A simple premise, but somehow it manages to involve naked Germans, Steve's all-time favourite joke and a band whose name is just an umlaut floating in lots of white space. It'll make sense if you listen.

Steve and Julian take us back to this day in 1987 to revisit the UK singles and albums charts, as well as a wider look at the day's events. Along the way Wet Wet Wet question the need to write their own lyrics, Julian fulminates against a beloved light entertainer, and Shakin' Stevens gives Jools Holland a piggy-back ride. It'll make sense if you listen.

We're on a road trip back to this day in 1981 on Off The Chart! Along the way Steve and Julian pick up all sorts of info about the UK singles and albums charts, the day's news, TV & radio highlights and gigs, and a quick detour to the Spanish chart. We're also talking about Julian's Nigel Mansell anecdote, some of the worst Mr Men books ever written, and an update on our plans for Off The Chart underwear. It'll all make sense if you listen.

Another journey back in time as Off The Chart retreats to 7 July 1986 for a look at the UK single and album charts plus a more general look at what was going on around them. This week Steve unmasks a number of fake doctors, Julian invents an LP that plays forever, and Mary Whitehouse writes a strong letter to the Director General of the BBC.

A trip back to this day in 1982 as Steve and Julian discuss the UK charts and the other things that were happening around them. This week: Angus Young finds a cannon, the world's most famous band reforms as "The Ladders", and a pair of talking trousers goes to number one in South Africa. It'll all make sense if you listen.

Another trip back in time to this day in 1988 as Steve and Julian discuss the UK singles and album charts, as well as a broader look at the day's events. Along the way they set fire to a Toblerone, dodge an attack from Phil Collins' catapult, and discuss the difference between Tall Paul, Topol and T'Pau.