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Its aim is to give a reasonable overview of the Beach Boys recorded output from 1961 to date, and to indicate as clearly as possible the various types of release and the differences found between some of them.
Single titles in italics indicate a single release different to the album version (i.e.
Single titles underlined indicate a song not originally included on a non-compilation album or CD (for the purposes of this discography, Still Cruisin', although containing previously released tracks twenty years old and more, is not regarded as a compilation).
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 List of number-one singles (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Singles Chart, from its inception in 1952 to the present.
The sources, in accordance with the official canon of The Official UK Charts Company, are the New Musical Express chart from 1952 to 1960; the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969; and the Official UK Singles Chart from 1969 on.
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 [you can't extract me from my plastic fantasy] - kate bush wiki.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
While this was the height of her UK singles chart success, she has achieved considerable album sales throughout her career and has retained substantial popularity and critical acclaim.
Bush during the promotion of album The Single File (1983)A pattern began to form in the 1980s, in which Bush would disappear for up to four years while she honed her new material until it was ready for release.
U.K. Cover of 1978's The Kick InsideKate Bush's debut album was released when she was 19 years old; she had written some of the songs when she was only 15.
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 Amazon.com: Number Ones: Music: Michael Jackson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Michael has had 7 UK No.1 hit singles, and his last was in 1997.
His first UK No.1 hit was in May 1981 with "One Day In Your Life," which isn't included on here strangely enough.
Every single song is great and expresses the true genius of this extremely talented and intelligent man. Furthermore, the songs "Man in the Mirror" and "Earth Song" show the humanitarian side of this wonderful human being that those of us that have been his devoted fans for years have known about for a long time.
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 Introduction
During the 1980s and 1990s, the number of for-profit private prisons increased across America, but contrary to initial optimistic expectations, private prisons have encountered an increasing number of dilemmas as well as much resistance to their operation.
Their re-emergence in the 1980s, he explains, was a response to a rise in the use of incarceration, which resulted in overcrowded prisons.
She documents a list of concerns: increased rates of self-harm, reduced visitations, unsafe surroundings for children, poor health treatment, lack of education programs and poor location, leaving many women far from home and unable to see maintain contact with their families.
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 Elvis Presley - The King Of Rock And Roll
The resulting single, backed with Elvis' hopped-up version of the country song "Blue Moon Of Kentucky", was a huge local hit in Memphis after WHBQ aired it two days later, and regular touring started to expand his fame beyond Tennessee.
The remix hit Number 1 in over 20 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia (it was also his first top 10 hit in the UK for nearly 22 years, and his first #1 there for nearly 25 years).
The second of these re-releases, "Jailhouse Rock", was the number one in the first chart of 2005, and "One Night/I Got Stung", the third re-release in the series, replaced it on the January 16 chart (and thus becoming the 1000th UK number one).
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 Croquet World Online Magazine | People
The official list appears at the beginning and the end of the year, with periodic updates appearing on the Nottingham board.
Along with the names of the players only three numbers appear to the right of each name: the ranking (a number equal to or greater than 1700), the number of games played, and the number of games won.
An official list is produced twice a year - at the end of March and the end of October.
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 Spice Girls Summary
Further singles released from the album included "Too Much", "Stop" and "Viva Forever" – with "Stop" being the only track not to hit #1 in Britain (the track remains their only single not to go to #1 in the UK).
The video for the single was made before Geri's departure and features the girls in animated form – a decision made because there was no time to produce a video due to the heavy world tour schedule.
Total of nine number one singles in the UK - tied with ABBA behind The Shadows (twelve), Madonna (twelve), Westlife (thirteen), Cliff Richard (fourteen), The Beatles (seventeen) and Elvis Presley (twenty-one).
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 Music of Australia - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
List of Number 1 singles in Australia during the 1970s
List of Number 1 singles in Australia during the 1980s
List of Number 1 singles in Australia during the 1990s
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Their first single, "Tears Are Not Enough", made the UK Top 20 in 1981.
Heavy on rhyming couplets and tales of unrequited love, the album was a big hit, reaching number one in the UK album charts.
Song specially written for the Free Nelson Mandela Concert held in Wembley in 1988, the song reached number 1 in UK in Feb 1989, as a B-Side to Belfast Child.
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 Artist page for George Michael - Wal-mart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A pilot single, "I Want Your Sex" was banned by daytime radio stations and broke his string of number 1s in the UK.
The singer returned to the charts in March 2002 with the one-off single "Freeek!", which was accompanied by a risqué £1 million video.
The single's poor chart showing (only reaching UK number 12) indicated Michael's commercial star was very much on the wane.
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 Yaz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The group was formed in 1981, using a moniker that Alison Moyet, veteran of a number of southeast Essex based punk and rock and rollrock bands, had seen on the labels of old blues albums: 'Yazoo'.
Their debut single "Only You" backed with "Situation," was released in April 1982, and rose to number two in the UK.
Clarke was tapped to remix Moyet's 1994 single, "Whispering Your Name" and with Erasure, Clarke and Moyet tried to record her single "This House" as a duet.
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 HAHAahaha first post!!!!!! - Page 2 - Aznmp3 Music Releaser
As of 26th November 2006, the UK number 1 single is 'Patience' by Take That.
As part of the revised rules, singles would now be removed from the chart two weeks after the deletion of the physical formats, which meant "Crazy" fell out of the chart nine weeks later from number 5.
This was in addition to the already in-force rule that in order to be eligible for the chart, the physical single had to have been released within the last twelve months.
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 Shopping.com - Find, Compare, and Buy Anything in Seconds
The CD SINGLES COLLECTION box set, an exclusive European edition, contains singles released in the U.K. from 1962 to 1970.
There are 22 discs (and 44 songs) in all, each one packaged in a replica case with the same art as the original 7" single that was re-released in the 1980s.
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 Ozzy Osbourne Summary
In doing so, he broke the record of the longest period between an artist's first UK chart appearance (with Black Sabbath's, "Paranoid", number four in August 1970) and their first number one hit; a gap of 33 years.
A number of yet unsigned bands send one member to compete in a challenge to win a spot on the 2005 Ozzfest and a possible recording contract.
In 2005, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame along with Black Sabbath where he decided to moon the crowd because of their poor reception while they were playing.
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 1980s: By Decade at Canadian Content
Listing of UK singles chart number ones from 1980 to 1989.
It was a pervasive influence on rock music in the 1980s, especially in Britain.
Governmental instability during the 1970s and 1980s was followed by multiparty elections in the early 1990s.
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 THE WISHLIST ~ PAGE 3
Perhaps you can help me. I have a vinyl recording of the Jackson 5, and album called "Moving Violation", I am looking to replace it with a CD but I'm told that the CD is out of print.
This is the Boston Pop band and not the alternative UK band.
Also for any of their import singles of these songs.
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 SP #28 - 4/15/96
After much consideration, I think it would have to be "No Face, No Name, No Number." The reason I think this is because when I first got my copy of it, I absolutely loved the song, but then I started understanding it more, and I stopped listening to it.
Having not seen Steve perform for more than twenty years (since the Reading Festival, August 1975, which was one of the last, if not the final, performance of that version of Traffic) it would be great to keep up with any news.
(1) "Det War In Schoneberg" (from a 1966 German single): The liner notes discuss this song but claim that it's outside the scope of the collection.
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 Amazon.ca: Asia: Music: Asia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
And the rest of the album actually holds up fairly well, but as a whole the songs are so bombastic that it overwhelms what would have been an otherwise good album.
Worth noting: Six of the nine songs on this album can also be found on their Greatest Hits collection, so if you're looking for your first Asia album, you might want to pick that up instead.
The music for the rest of the 1980s (with a few exceptions) went from bad to Prince -or worse.
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 Number 1s Index - everyHit.com
Note that dates given on these 'Number 1' pages are for 'week ending'
For a distinction between 'realtime' and 'week ending' Number 1s, please see the faqs.
You should also be aware of a few number one quirks.
www.everyhit.com /number.html   (76 words)

  
 Pure 80s Pop reliving 80s music
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 A HALF CENTURY OF BRITISH NUMBER ONES
Whilst the listings are kept fairly up to date, there may be periods when the very latest hits are not yet listed.
The vast majority of the acts and writers listed have web links, but sites for some performers have not been found.
During the first five years of this web site's life, a number of corrections and comments have been taken on board.
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 Led Zeppelin Tickets - Led Zeppelin Concert Tour Schedule Show Tickets Broker
The band had nine other singles released all without their consent, as they saw their albums as indivisible.
Curiously, "Stairway to Heaven" was never released as a single, in spite of its massive success on radio (part of the band's frustration about singles came from manager Peter Grant's aggressive pro-album stance, and the fact that Atlantic had earlier released an edited version of "Whole Lotta Love" which cut the 5:34 song to 3:10).
Beginning in the 1980s, the iconic nature of many Zeppelin riffs made them a popular target for sampling, initially unauthorized but later sanctioned by the surviving band members, to mixed reactions from fans.
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 List of number-one singles from the 1980s (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is a list of the number one singles on the UK Singles Chart, during the 1980s.
Continues from List of number-one singles from the 1970s
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I just heard from my brother, who lives in Virginia, that Frankie Goes to Hollywood was advertised in the list of performers at something called the "Fairfax Fair" in Fairfax County last weekend (June 12/13).
He said that the advertising actually listed the group as "Frankie Goes to Hollywood," not as "FGTH" or another cover-band name.
Andreas Thein has released as far as know four singles as Rififi, the most successful being their second release Dr Acid and Mr House.
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A number of books addressing animal welfare issues also brought attention to the treatment of animals and helped shape a broader understanding of animal rights.
The most damaging occurred on August 1, 2003, when arsonists burned down a housing complex under construction in San Diego, destroying a five-story building and 100-foot-high crane; losses were estimated at $50 million.
However, during the past two years law enforcement authorities have made a number of significant arrests and several ecoterrorists have been charged for their criminal activity and sentenced to prison terms.
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 Table of Contents
When completed, this will list every primetime TV series aired during the decade, with network, stars, dates and a brief synopsis.
Provides the covers, track listings, chart rankings and critics' comments on 81 of the year's albums.
Automobiles of the 1980s (1: AMC and Chrysler)
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 Number 1 Singles of the 1980s - everyHit.com
Our main database does not give the precise date that a record reached the Number 1 spot.
The tables below list the running total of different number 1s, the date the track reached the peak, artist name, song title(s) and weeks at the summit.
Note that you can quickly and easily find the 'realtime' Number 1 for any given date via our date engine
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 YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Classix Nouveaux's second album "La Verite" in 1982 was spearheaded by their biggest British hit single, "Is It a Dream" this track was catchy, lightweight, soul-tinged, and pretentiously vocalized, very much in the stream of the new romantic pop that was peaking around the time of this release.
Fry is also gearing up for a tour of major US cities in May and June 2006.
Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle First single from New Gold Dream, reached 13# in UK in April 1982, its first major hit.
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 New Wave Outpost - CD Compilations Key
Below is the complete list of CD compilations which contain at least one song that is listed or indexed on my site.
The CD titles link to the All Music Guide where possible, otherwise they reference the Compilation Track Listings page, which will no longer be updated with new compilations that are also listed in the All Music Guide.
DiY 1: Anarchy in the UK - UK Punk I (1976-77)
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