Saturday 17 January 1981

By producercat

Before Jools and his Ken Bruce impression get snapped up by Radio 2, join us on Off The Chart for a trip back to this day in 1981! We won’t be playing all the Greatest Hits though, we’ll have plenty of obscure, neglected and forgotten hits from the week’s chart, as well as three album…

Sunday 12 April 1981

By producercat

It’s an unusually violent edition of Off The Chart this week as we get dragged all the way back to this day 1981! We’ll be bombarded with obscure, forgotten and neglected hits from that week’s chart, pummelled with three of the week’s new albums, walloped with a look at the day’s events, smacked around the…

Sunday 1 February 1981

By producercat

White rabbits! No Jefferson Airplane or Chas & Dave on this first of the month Off The Chart, but we are going back to brutally dissect the UK singles chart from this day in 1981. We’ll have the usual brace of neglected and forgotten hits, plus tracks from three of the week’s new albums, a…

Sunday 28 December 1980

By producercat

After the excitement of Christmas we’re back to normal on this week’s Off The Chart and, inconveniently, we’ve landed on 1980 where there was no chart published at all in the week after Christmas. Nevertheless we can still bring you two hours of obscure, forgotten and half-remembered hits, plus three of the week’s big albums,…

Friday 27 July 1984

By producercat

Come back with us to this day in 1984 on this week’s Off The Chart! We’ll tell you all about what was going on, except for the Olympics, because that’s classified. But we will look at the UK singles chart and play you a shedload of obscure and forgotten hits, as well as tracks from…