Ugh, I've gotten out of the wrong side of the bed this morning, I've got to see David Gauntlett to discuss my Media Consumption essay and an appointment with Sue at CANDA a couple of hours later to put me on a straight line as I know there are going to be several dead ends with this weeks magazine show.
I overslept partly because I spent the later hours of last night on Youtube watching the Chart Show 1986 Special! Now The Vault on Sky Digital have said that these episodes won't be repeated as they are on 1 inch videotape that they don't have the facilities to play. Or possibly because the tapes themselves have been worn out after being rewound and fast forwarded too much!
Quite a good year for videos actually including "Walk This Way" by Run DMC with Aerosmith, "Living Doll" by Cliff and The Young Ones, and "Kiss" by Prince.
Also featured are The Housemartins with "Happy Hour" as the Best New Act, which lead singer Paul Heaton won again in 1989 when he went on to form the Beautiful South. As well as Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel who won the Best Video of The Year title twice, the second time being for the eye catching "Kiss That Frog" in 1993.
A few odd choices of tunes however, why on earth is "On My Own" by Patti Labelle and Michael Mcdonald in the Dance Singles Chart?! And in the albums rundown quite a few compilations such as "Now" made the top 10 before they were omitted from the charts in 1989.
I always assumed Michael McDonald was black until I saw him on television performing his Motown album a few years ago. I'm not sure who beared the more shocking resemblance, him or Rick Astley.
I'm just as muddled with music as I was 20 years ago.
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