#BoringPopFact The 1988 hit version of Dignity was a re-recording, the version released in 1994 was a reissue of the original flop version. #TotP
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The La's version of There She Goes was re-released off the back of this and got to 65.
Which was the second time it had peaked at 65, after the Fever Pitch EP. #TotP #BoringPopFact
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There aren't many, but there are two that involve Midge Ure (Rich Kids and Visage) #BoringPopFact
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The Wiseguys also did a remix of Hepburn's second hit (yes they had three of them) #TotP #BoringPopFact
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Dexys and Prince made their UK Top 75 debuts in the same week in January 1980. #forgotten80s #BoringPopFact
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#BoringPopFact there's a recognisable Ian Dury in the painting on the inner sleeve of Wings At The Speed Of Sound #TotP
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The low vocal on Love And Affection is by Peter Clarke, better known as an actor under the stage name Clarke Peters. #TotP #BoringPopFact
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The drummer used to be in Soho (the band, not the place) #TotP #BoringPopFact
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Matt Cantor of Freestylers was also in Strike (of You Sure Do fame) #BoringPopFact
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All four of their hits have different writing credits #TotP #BoringPopFact
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The singer from Cook Da Books was Peter Deary, aka Digsy of Oasis dinner fame. #TotP #BoringPopFact
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The 7" was released with a "retro" orange label instead of a black one, because it was expected to be his last single on RCA #TotP #BoringPopFact
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UK and US single versions of MOR are different, and neither is the same as the album version. #TotP #BoringPopFact
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#BoringPopFact The original CD single of Slash N Burn included their earlier single Motown Junk, but this was omitted from the 1997 release.
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It peaked at 12 in both 1985 and 1998, oddly. #TotP #BoringPopFact
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Madonna's first writing credit on a Number One single by somebody else. #TotP #BoringPopFact
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#BoringPopFact there isn't actually any bass guitar on Life's What You Make It. Paul Webb only sings on the record. #TotP
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The Levellers had 4 singles peak at 12, but only two consecutively. #TotP #BoringPopFact
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The New Pollution was the third single from the album but the most successful in the UK #BoringPopFact
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She's A Woman is the first Beatles track to run over 3 minutes (although it fades) #CSNovaShow #BoringPopFact
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#BoringPopFact The Tide Is High and Super Trouper were consecutive Number One singles with the "number one" in the chorus lyric... but it was more than 25 years until a song actually called Number 1 made it to the top of the UK chart. #TotP
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Bonus #BoringPopFact - Chasing Rainbows is the last track on Now 35, the last regular Now album released on vinyl. #TotP
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Their only single produced by Brendan Lynch, before they went back to John Leckie for the second album. #BoringPopFact #TotP
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Bonus #BoringPopFact Four of the five members of the 2024 lineup of Crowded House hold Irish passports. Probably handy for European tours. #TotP
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#BoringPopFact Don't Break My Heart eventually climbed to 3, UB40's highest chart position with an original song. #TotP
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Come Back And Stay was written by the same bloke as Hanging On The Telephone. #TotP #BoringPopFact
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IIRC, Voulez-Vous is the only Abba single not entirely recorded in Sweden. #TotP #BoringPopFact
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Thanks to @pistolstopulp.bsky.social and @charityclassics.bsky.social I got to post my "Oui3 and US3 were in the charts at the same time" #BoringPopFact twice within a few days.
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Jody Watley later had a solo hit with an entirely different song called Friends. #TotP #BoringPopFact
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