Hi GC, very long time no speak. Great to see Win make the list. They were so unlucky. Still listen to their album from time to time, on top of the many remixes of You’ve Got The Power.
A pleasure to read you, too, VtC! Trust all is well with you and yours. Life experience tells us not to take absolutely everything we see as gospel; and the charts of the 1980s and 1990s, replete as they were with real or imagined sharp practices, sales rigging and (in poor Win’s case) mistaken cases of regional hyping, are good examples of that.
I can quite believe that the north west of the first near quarter century of my existence would have been viewed with similar suspicion by Gallup chart compilers from time to time. Piccadilly Radio would have carried considerable clout in the 1980s and helped propel certain songs it got right behind to strong regional sales. I can only assume the rest of the nation failed to get similarly behind tracks by the likes of Floy Joy, Fra Lippo Lippi, The Bernhardts, etc., exposing that incongruity.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.