Small Town Boy by Bronski Beat was similar but alas did not make number one.
It is an extraordinary song. Right up there with the very best I’ve heard.
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I thought the BBC made a great choice of The Power Of Love by Frankie Goes To Hollywood for their montage at the end of the World Cup final.
I already associate the other main Frankie Goes To Hollywood tracks with football especially Liverpool and Everton mid 80s and a particular time and place in mid-80s UK society especially the miners’ strike and the time of Militant in Liverpool, because those tracks are inherently confrontational, but never in a million years would I have chosen The Power Of Love for a 2020s football montage. It worked.
I remember this on TOTP at number one with the choir behind. I loved it. Still do.
I have a memory of Brondby knocking Liverpool out of the UEFA Cup around that time - Halloween or November. I think Liverpool had a horrific November that year.
Everyone of a certain age knows this. That’s all you can really.
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1971 was a great year for no1s
| 295 | Clive Dunn | “Grandad” | Columbia | 9 January 1971 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 296 | George Harrison | “My Sweet Lord” † | Apple | 30 January 1971 | 5 |
| 297 | Mungo Jerry | “Baby Jump” | Dawn | 6 March 1971 | 2 |
| 298 | T. Rex | “Hot Love” | Fly | 20 March 1971 | 6 |
| 299 | Dave and Ansell Collins | “Double Barrel” | Techniques | 1 May 1971 | 2 |
| 300 | Dawn | “Knock Three Times” | Bell | 15 May 1971 | 5 |
| 301 | Middle of the Road | “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep” | RCA | 19 June 1971 | 5 |
| 302 | T. Rex | “Get It On” | Fly | 24 July 1971 | 4 |
| 303 | Diana Ross | “I’m Still Waiting” | Tamla Motown | 21 August 1971 | 4 |
| 304 | The Tams | “Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me” | Probe | 18 September 1971 | 3 |
| 305 | Rod Stewart | “Reason to Believe” / “Maggie May” | Mercury | 9 October 1971 | 5 |
| 306 | Slade | “Coz I Luv You” | Polydor | 13 November 1971 | 4 |
| 307 | Benny Hill | “Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)” | Columbia |
Jesus, it can’t get any worse than that
Ah it could and it did.
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Still have my copy that I bought in Hymie Sinnotts on Barronstrand Street in the wet miserable summer of 1983.
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1983 was one of the better summers in Ireland over the last half century.
It was very wet in Waterford and we got hockeyed in the Munster Final for the second year in a row by Cork, this time in Limerick.
Could be a reason it’s called Waterford.
Funnily enough the worst rain I’ve ever experienced at a match came in the finest summer, 1995, when Kilkenny scattered like scaredy cats to the dugout during their warm up for the Leinster hurling final against Offaly.
The new corporate box area in the Cusack Stand was partially flooded.
Remember that very well.
Doop was a great tune. I loved Mr vain, 2 unlimited and the outhere brothers too as a jung fle. Mr vain was a great one for lads to do the prodigy shuffle to on the steps of the nightclub dancefloor. I presume they all got to number 1