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- Dec 28, 2016
- 7 min
This Week In 1986: December 28, 1986
Before Big Day Out, there was Australian Made. This week in 1986, some of the biggest homegrown acts were making their way around the...
- Dec 21, 2016
- 3 min
This Week In 1986: December 21, 1986
It didn't happen often — especially compared to the UK chart — but when a former hit song was re-released and returned to the Australian...
- Dec 14, 2016
- 6 min
This Week In 1986: December 14, 1986
It's funny how so often the songs that are basically afterthoughts end up defining an artist's music career. A song that's dashed off in...
- Dec 7, 2016
- 5 min
This Week In 1986: December 7, 1986
A few months earlier, Bananarama had taken a former number 1 hit, "Venus" by Shocking Blue, back to the top of the chart for seven weeks....
- Nov 30, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1986: November 30, 1986
When a band takes a break, those that actually end up making a comeback are invariably changed when they return. That was never more the...
- Nov 23, 2016
- 5 min
This Week In 1986: November 23, 1986
As great as it is when artists move with the times and develop their sound and/or image, it's sometimes nice to be able to rely on those...
- Nov 16, 2016
- 5 min
This Week In 1986: November 16, 1986
I've talked before about songs that become inextricably linked to the movie scenes they play during. If ever there was a case of song and...
- Nov 9, 2016
- 3 min
This Week In 1986: November 9, 1986
What do Men At Work, Culture Club and Bruce Hornsby And The Range have in common? They were all the recipients of the Grammy Award for...
- Nov 2, 2016
- 5 min
This Week In 1986: November 2, 1986
Hear that sound? A perfectly formed pop nugget that is never equalled? Yep, it's one-hit wonder time on this week's look back at the ARIA...
- Oct 26, 2016
- 3 min
This Week In 1986: October 26, 1986
Between them, Elton John and Madonna released more than 60 singles during the '80s — 25 of which made the Australian top 10. It's only...
- Oct 19, 2016
- 7 min
This Week In 1986: October 19, 1986
Some weeks in music are bigger than others. For every chart with only a couple of minor hits debuting, there are ones like the ARIA top...
- Oct 12, 2016
- 6 min
This Week In 1986: October 12, 1986
I've always thought that if you're going to do a cover version, you should really do something different with the song. Otherwise, people...
- Oct 5, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1986: October 5, 1986
Changing tempo had sure worked for Berlin. This week in 1986, big ballad "Take My Breath Away" moved up to number 2 for the band better...
- Sep 28, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1986: September 28, 1986
There's no denying Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart are music legends, but as well as both having decades-spanning careers that continue to...
- Sep 21, 2016
- 5 min
This Week In 1986: September 21, 1986
Unlike TV talent quests Star Search,Pot Of Gold and New Faces, you weren't meant to take Red Faces seriously. The Hey Hey It's Saturday...
- Sep 14, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1986: September 14, 1986
Every pop music story has a beginning, and this week in 1986, a man synonymous with the modern era of reality TV singing competitions...
- Sep 7, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1986: September 7, 1986
Your band's broken up? No problem... if you were the lead singer, that is. There's always the option of pursuing a solo career — and if...
- Aug 31, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1986: August 31, 1986
It's inevitable that whenever a music artist releases a new album after even a relatively short period of time, it's classed as a...
- Aug 24, 2016
- 5 min
This Week In 1986: August 24, 1986
For a song to reach number 1 once is pretty good going. For it do so twice is an even more impressive feat — and something that has...
- Aug 17, 2016
- 6 min
This Week In 1986: August 17, 1986
Whatever it was that had prompted ARIA to stop producing take-home printouts of the top 50 chart back in January 1986 (an effort to be...
