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- Dec 27, 2020
- 7 min
This Week In 1980: December 28, 1980
There are few music acts that can legitimately claim to have the word "mania" tacked onto the end of the name. The Beatles are one. And...
- Dec 21, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1980: December 21, 1980
In 1990, Tina Arena and Dannii Minogue both reached the top 5 of the ARIA singles chart, but (unless I'm forgetting someone) you have to...
- Dec 14, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: December 14, 1980
Sometimes all it takes is a little patience. Twenty-two years' worth of patience. That's the amount of time between number 1 hits for the...
- Dec 7, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1980: December 7, 1980
We've reached the final month of my look back at the Australian singles chart from 1980. I'll be announcing my plans to cover 1981 (and...
- Nov 30, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1980: November 30, 1980
It was a major source of frustration for me how behind the times Australia was in the 1980s, with it routinely taking ages for overseas...
- Nov 23, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1980: November 23, 1980
As we've seen in our trips back to 1980, the first year of the decade was notable for many musical milestones and events. Then, in the...
- Nov 16, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: November 16, 1980
While some singers can wear out their welcome on the top 50, others' careers take a different approach as they land less frequent hits —...
- Nov 9, 2020
- 5 min
This Week In 1980: November 9, 1980
To paraphrase the number 18 song on the Australian singles chart from this week in 1980: everybody's got to start somewhere. And in the...
- Nov 2, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: November 2, 1980
Australia was living in a time warp this week in 1980, with two of the three new entries on the top 50 at least a year old. In one case,...
- Oct 26, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: October 26, 1980
Some artists stick to their sound through thick and thin, pumping out album after album of the same type of material. Other acts mix...
- Oct 19, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1980: October 19, 1980
After they dominated the music scene in the late '70s, it made sense for Bee Gees to take more of a backseat approach to the music...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1980: October 12, 1980
Having never really paid that much attention to the Australian charts of the 1960s and '70s, I'm often surprised when I do look back...
- Oct 5, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: October 5, 1980
Girl groups (as opposed to girl bands) were thin on the ground in the early '80s — after having been a major part of music in the '60s...
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: September 28, 1980
I tend to favour female singers over male singers, especially in more recent decades. But there were a number of great male performers in...
- Sep 21, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1980: September 21, 1980
The year had already seen some big musical movies in the form of Can't Stop The Music and Xanadu, and this week in 1980, another film...
- Sep 14, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: September 14, 1980
From Gundegai to Kokomo, and New York to London, locations have provided the inspiration for hit singles for... as long as there have...
- Sep 7, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1980: September 7, 1980
It's always surprising how some music legends haven't actually had that many hits in Australia. In terms of American female superstars, a...
- Aug 31, 2020
- 4 min
This Week In 1980: August 31, 1980
Sometimes a record company has got to do whatever it takes to turn a song into a hit, even if that means misrepresenting the artist in...
- Aug 23, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: August 24, 1980
Despite being only five years old at the time, I have some clear memories from 1980, one of which was starting school. I also remember...
- Aug 16, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: August 17, 1980
Standing out from a famous family can be tricky, especially when one of your brothers is the most famous pop star in the world. But this...
