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This is a summary of 1980 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.
Contents
1 Events
2 Pop music
3 Charts
3.1 Number-one singles
3.2 Number-one albums
4 Year-end charts
4.1 Best-selling singles
4.2 Best-selling albums
5 Classical music: new works
6 Opera
7 Musical theatre
8 Births
9 Deaths
10 See also
11 References
Events
- unknown date – John Rutter is made an honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton.
1 January - Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Elizabeth II.
16 January - Paul McCartney is arrested in Tokyo for possession of a half pound of marijuana. The remaining part of McCartney's tour has to be cancelled.
25 January - Paul McCartney is released from a Japanese jail and ejected from the country by Japanese authorities.
8 February - David Bowie and his wife of nearly 10 years, Angie, file for divorce. Bowie gets custody of their 9-year-old son, Zowie
30 April - The Roger Daltrey film, McVicar, opens in London.
18 May - Ian Curtis, vocalist of pioneering post-punk group Joy Division, hangs himself in his Macclesfield home. His death comes just days before Joy Division are scheduled to begin their first U.S. tour.
16 September - Kate Bush becomes the first British female artist to reach No.1 in the album charts.
20 September - Ozzy Osbourne's breakthrough debut album Blizzard of Ozz is released in the UK.
25 November - ABBA score the last of their nine number one singles in the UK Charts.- December - Duran Duran signs with EMI after finalizing its lineup and touring as a support act for Hazel O'Connor.
4 December - Led Zeppelin disbands following the death of drummer John Bonham.
8 December - John Lennon is shot dead outside his apartment building in New York City. His latest single, "(Just Like) Starting Over", subsequently becomes a number one hit.
Pop music
The 1980s got off to an odd start with a very varied list of artists reaching No. 1 in the singles chart. Kenny Rogers, The Jam and Odyssey were among those vying for the top position. The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums stated that the year had a very dated appearance, because of a number of songs reaching No. 1 which had been recorded years previously, such as the "Theme from M*A*S*H*" and Don McLean's cover of Roy Orbison's "Crying". The Ska and Mod revivals reached their peak this year, with strong chart showings by The Jam, The Specials and Madness. 1970s favourites ABBA and Blondie both had their last years as chart heavyweights, clocking up 5 No.1 singles between them. David Bowie scored his second No.1 this year, while the death of John Lennon at the end of the year gave him his first chart topper (and would dominate the early months of 1981). Kate Bush became the first British female artist to have a No.1 album, and The Police finished the year as the top selling act. "Brass in Pocket" by The Pretenders became the first number 1 single of the 80s (not counting "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd" which was a holdover from 1979).
Charts
Number-one singles
| Chart date (week ending) | Song | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 5 January | "Another Brick in the Wall" | Pink Floyd |
| 12 January | ||
| 19 January | "Brass in Pocket" | The Pretenders |
| 26 January | ||
| 2 February | The Special AKA Live! | The Specials |
| 9 February | ||
| 16 February | "Coward of the County" | Kenny Rogers |
| 23 February | ||
| 1 March | "Atomic" | Blondie |
| 8 March | ||
| 15 March | "Together We Are Beautiful" | Fern Kinney |
| 22 March | "Going Underground / Dreams of Children" | The Jam |
| 29 March | ||
| 5 April | ||
| 12 April | "Working My Way Back to You" | The Detroit Spinners |
| 19 April | ||
| 26 April | "Call Me" | Blondie |
| 3 May | "Geno" | Dexys Midnight Runners |
| 10 May | ||
| 17 May | "What's Another Year" | Johnny Logan |
| 24 May | ||
| 31 May | "Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H)" | Johnny Mandel |
| 7 June | ||
| 14 June | ||
| 21 June | "Crying" | Don McLean |
| 28 June | ||
| 5 July | ||
| 12 July | "Xanadu" | Olivia Newton-John/Electric Light Orchestra |
| 19 July | ||
| 26 July | "Use It Up and Wear It Out" | Odysssey |
| 2 August | ||
| 9 August | "The Winner Takes It All" | ABBA |
| 16 August | ||
| 23 August | "Ashes to Ashes" | David Bowie |
| 30 August | ||
| 6 September | "Start!" | The Jam |
| 13 September | "Feels Like I'm in Love" | Kelly Marie |
| 20 September | ||
| 27 September | "Don't Stand So Close to Me" | The Police |
| 4 October | ||
| 11 October | ||
| 18 October | ||
| 25 October | "Woman in Love" | Barbra Streisand |
| 1 November | ||
| 8 November | ||
| 15 November | "The Tide Is High" | Blondie |
| 22 November | ||
| 29 November | "Super Trouper" | ABBA |
| 6 December | ||
| 13 December | ||
| 20 December | "(Just Like) Starting Over" | John Lennon |
| 27 December | "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma" | St. Winifred's School Choir |
Number-one albums
| Chart date (week ending) | Album | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 5 January | Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 | Rod Stewart |
| 12 January | Greatest Hits Vol. 2 | ABBA |
| 19 January | Pretenders | The Pretenders |
| 26 January | ||
| 2 February | ||
| 9 February | ||
| 16 February | Last Dance | Various Artists |
| 23 February | ||
| 1 March | String of Hits | The Shadows |
| 8 March | ||
| 15 March | ||
| 22 March | Tears and Laughter | Johnny Mathis |
| 29 March | ||
| 5 April | Duke | Genesis |
| 12 April | ||
| 19 April | Greatest Hits | Rose Royce |
| 26 April | ||
| 3 May | Sky 2 | Sky |
| 10 May | ||
| 17 May | The Magic of Boney M. – 20 Golden Hits | Boney M. |
| 24 May | ||
| 31 May | McCartney II | Paul McCartney |
| 7 June | ||
| 14 June | Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel |
| 21 June | ||
| 28 June | Flesh and Blood | Roxy Music |
| 5 July | Emotional Rescue | The Rolling Stones |
| 12 July | ||
| 19 July | The Game | Queen |
| 26 July | ||
| 2 August | Deepest Purple | Deep Purple |
| 9 August | Back in Black | AC/DC |
| 16 August | ||
| 23 August | Flesh + Blood | Roxy Music |
| 30 August | ||
| 6 September | ||
| 13 September | Telekon | Gary Numan |
| 20 September | Never for Ever | Kate Bush |
| 27 September | Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) | David Bowie |
| 4 October | ||
| 11 October | Zenyatta Mondatta | The Police |
| 18 October | ||
| 25 October | ||
| 1 November | ||
| 8 November | Guilty | Barbra Streisand |
| 15 November | ||
| 22 November | Super Trouper | ABBA |
| 29 November | ||
| 6 December | ||
| 13 December | ||
| 20 December | ||
| 27 December |
Year-end charts
The tables below include sales between 31 December 1979 and 31 December 1980: the year-end charts reproduced in the issue of Music Week dated 27 December 1980 and played on Radio 1 on 4 January 1981 only include sales figures up until 6 December 1980.
Best-selling singles
[1]
No. | Title | Artist | Peak position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Don't Stand So Close to Me" | The Police | 1 |
| 2 | "Woman in Love" | Barbra Streisand | 1 |
| 3 | "Feels Like I'm in Love" | Kelly Marie | 1 |
| 4 | "Super Trouper" | ABBA | 1 |
| 5 | "D.I.S.C.O." | Ottawan | 2 |
| 6 | "The Tide Is High" | Blondie | 1 |
| 7 | "Geno" | Dexys Midnight Runners | 1 |
| 8 | "Together We Are Beautiful" | Fern Kinney | 1 |
| 9 | "Coward of the County" | Kenny Rogers | 1 |
| 10 | "(Just Like) Starting Over" | John Lennon | 1 |
| 11 | "Working My Way Back to You" | The Detroit Spinners | 1 |
| 12 | "9 to 5" | Sheena Easton | 3 |
| 13 | "Baggy Trousers" | Madness | 3 |
| 14 | "Ashes to Ashes" | David Bowie | 1 |
| 15 | "Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)" | MASH | 1 |
| 16 | "Going Underground"/"Dreams of Children" | The Jam | 1 |
| 17 | "Crying" | Don McLean | 1 |
| 18 | "The Winner Takes It All" | ABBA | 1 |
| 19 | "Dance Yourself Dizzy" | Liquid Gold | 2 |
| 20 | "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" | St Winifred's School Choir | 1 |
| 21 | "Atomic" | Blondie | 1 |
| 22 | "Upside Down" | Diana Ross | 2 |
| 23 | "Use It Up and Wear It Out" | Odyssey | 1 |
| 24 | "Start!" | The Jam | 1 |
| 25 | "Master Blaster (Jammin')" | Stevie Wonder | 2 |
| 26 | "Funkytown" | Lipps Inc. | 2 |
| 27 | "I'm in the Mood for Dancing" | The Nolans | 3 |
| 28 | "If You're Lookin' for a Way Out" | Odyssey | 6 |
| 29 | "One Day I'll Fly Away" | Randy Crawford | 2 |
| 30 | "The Special AKA Live!" EP | The Specials | 1 |
| 31 | "What You're Proposing" | Status Quo | 2 |
| 32 | "Take That Look Off Your Face" | Marti Webb | 3 |
| 33 | "No Doubt About It" | Hot Chocolate | 2 |
| 34 | "Stop the Cavalry" | Jona Lewie | 3 |
| 35 | "Brass in Pocket" | Pretenders | 1 |
| 36 | "Oops Up Side Your Head" | The Gap Band | 6 |
| 37 | "What's Another Year" | Johnny Logan | 1 |
| 38 | "Xanadu" | Olivia Newton-John/Electric Light Orchestra | 1 |
| 39 | "Special Brew" | Bad Manners | 3 |
| 40 | "King"/"Food for Thought" | UB40 | 4 |
| 41 | "And the Beat Goes On" | The Whispers | 2 |
| 42 | "Turning Japanese" | The Vapors | 3 |
| 43 | "When You Ask About Love" | Matchbox | 4 |
| 44 | "I Could Be So Good for You" | Dennis Waterman with the Dennis Waterman Band | 3 |
| 45 | "My Girl" | Madness | 3 |
| 46 | "Never Knew Love Like This Before" | Stephanie Mills | 4 |
| 47 | "Enola Gay" | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | 8 |
| 48 | "Call Me" | Blondie | 1 |
| 49 | "More Than I Can Say" | Leo Sayer | 2 |
| 50 | "Embarrassment" | Madness | 4 |
Best-selling albums
[2]
No. | Title | Artist | Peak position (in 1980)[3] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Super Trouper | ABBA | 1 |
| 2 | Zenyatta Mondatta | The Police | 1 |
| 3 | Greatest Hits | Rose Royce | 1 |
| 4 | Guilty | Barbra Streisand | 1 |
| 5 | Pretenders | Pretenders | 1 |
| 6 | Reggatta de Blanc | The Police | 2 |
| 7 | Flesh and Blood | Roxy Music | 1 |
| 8 | Manilow Magic: The Best of Barry Manilow | Barry Manilow | 4 |
| 9 | Off the Wall | Michael Jackson | 6 |
| 10 | Duke | Genesis | 1 |
| 11 | Sky 2 | Sky | 1 |
| 12 | Double Fantasy | John Lennon and Yoko Ono | 2 |
| 13 | One Step Beyond... | Madness | 2 |
| 14 | 12 Gold Bars | Status Quo | 3 |
| 15 | String of Hits | The Shadows | 1 |
| 16 | The Last Dance | Various Artists | 1 |
| 17 | Greatest Hits Vol. 2 | ABBA | 1 |
| 18 | Outlandos d'Amour | The Police | 9 |
| 19 | The Magic of Boney M. – 20 Golden Hits | Boney M. | 1 |
| 20 | Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) | David Bowie | 1 |
| 21 | Greatest Hits | Dr. Hook | 2 |
| 22 | Tell Me on a Sunday | Marti Webb | 2 |
| 23 | Absolutely | Madness | 2 |
| 24 | Not the Nine O'Clock News | Not the Nine O'Clock News Cast | 5 |
| 25 | Tears and Laughter | Johnny Mathis | 1 |
| 26 | Signing Off | UB40 | 2 |
| 27 | Never for Ever | Kate Bush | 1 |
| 28 | The Wall | Pink Floyd | 3 |
| 29 | The Specials | The Specials | 4 |
| 30 | I Just Can't Stop It | The Beat | 3 |
| 31 | Greatest Hits | Rod Stewart | 1 |
| 32 | Give Me the Night | George Benson | 3 |
| 33 | Get Happy!! | Elvis Costello and the Attractions | 2 |
| 34 | Me Myself I | Joan Armatrading | 5 |
| 35 | Bat Out of Hell | Meat Loaf | 20 |
| 36 | McCartney II | Paul McCartney | 1 |
| 37 | Emotional Rescue | The Rolling Stones | 1 |
| 38 | Back in Black | AC/DC | 1 |
| 39 | Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel | 1 |
| 40 | Eat to the Beat | Blondie | 7 |
| 41 | Autoamerican | Blondie | 3 |
| 42 | Parallel Lines | Blondie | 15 |
| 43 | Hotter than July | Stevie Wonder | 2 |
| 44 | Sometimes You Win | Dr. Hook | 14 |
| 45 | Wheels of Steel | Saxon | 5 |
| 46 | The Game | Queen | 1 |
| 47 | Sound Affects | The Jam | 2 |
| 48 | Kings of the Wild Frontier | Adam and the Ants | 3 |
| 49 | Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds | Jeff Wayne | 32 |
| 50 | Breaking Glass | Hazel O'Connor | 5 |
Classical music: new works
George Benjamin - Ringed by the Flat Horizon
Lennox Berkeley - Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, Op.99
Harrison Birtwistle - Clarinet Quintet
Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
Alun Hoddinott - The Heaventree of Stars
Robert Simpson - String Quartet No. 8
Malcolm Williamson - Ode for Queen Elizabeth
Opera
William Mathias - The Servants
Peter Maxwell Davies - The Lighthouse
Musical theatre
Suburban Strains, book and lyrics by Alan Ayckbourn with music by Paul Todd[4]
Births
1 January - Richie Faulkner, rock guitarist (Judas Priest)
29 March - Andy Scott-Lee, singer (3SL)
4 April - Johnny Borrell, singer and musician with Razorlight
12 April - Brian McFadden, Irish singer (Westlife)
29 April - Kian Egan, Irish singer (Westlife)
8 May - Michelle McManus, singer and TV presenter
28 May - Mark Feehily, Irish singer (Westlife)
23 June - Jessica Taylor, singer (Liberty X)
29 June - Katherine Jenkins, soprano
7 July - Fyfe Dangerfield, singer-songwriter and guitarist (Guillemots and Senseless Prayer)
19 July - Michelle Heaton, singer (Liberty X)
28 July - Noel Sullivan, pop singer (Hear'Say)
19 August - Darius Danesh, singer-songwriter and actor
5 September - Kevin Simm, singer (Liberty X)
6 September - Kerry Katona, TV presenter and pop star (Atomic Kitten)
3 October - Danny O'Donoghue, Irish singer-songwriter (The Script)
15 December - Sergio Pizzorno, guitarist with Kasabian
date unknown - Catrin Finch, harpist
Deaths
25 January - Queenie Watts, actress and singer, 53 (cancer)
18 February - Muriel Brunskill, operatic contralto, 80
19 February - Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC, 33 (alcohol poisoning)
4 May - Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson, pianist, 60
18 May - Ian Curtis, musician and singer (Joy Division), 23 (suicide)
5 July - A. J. Potter, composer (born 1918)
6 July - Frank Cordell, composer, arranger and conductor, 62
25 September - John Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin), 32 (asphyxiation)
30 September - Horace Finch, pianist and organist, 74
27 October - Steve Peregrin Took, bongo player for Tyrannosaurus Rex, frontman for Shagrat and Steve Took's Horns, solo artist, 31 (asphyxiation)
8 December - John Lennon, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (The Beatles), 40 (murdered)
See also
- 1980 in British radio
- 1980 in British television
- 1980 in the United Kingdom
- List of British films of 1980
References
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^ "Chart File". Record Mirror. London, England: Spotlight Publications. 4 April 1981.
^ Official UK Albums Chart, 1980
^ Allen, Paul (2004) A Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn Plays, Faber & Faber
ISBN 0-571-21492-4
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