[Music] Your all time favourite UK number one single

[marlowe]

I think this has stood the test of time...

https://youtu.be/crJ3MMh6FfY

 

[Trevor]

Special AKA Live EP (Too Much Too Young) - but its probably just my age

 

[dazzer6666]

Brilliant thread....but impossible to choose a single track...

I’ll go with this for now, on the basis no-one else will and I loved it

https://youtu.be/LTrk4X9ACtw

 

[Pevenseagull]

Wuthering Heights or Ashes to Ashes. I'll just check.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Wuthering Heights or Ashes to Ashes. I'll just check.

Ashes to Ashes it is.

 

[Weststander]

Brilliant thread....but impossible to choose a single track...

I’ll go with this for now, on the basis no-one else will and I loved it

https://youtu.be/LTrk4X9ACtw

Love that, and many other Enya tracks.

 

[Ken Livingstone Seagull]

Has to be:

https://youtu.be/ZprkGIc-bgY

 

[pastafarian]

Favourites change over the years.......but i always come back to this one.
It is pretty amazing.




And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves under pressure
Under pressure

 

[Eeyore]

Ghost town - The Specials . . . still as relevant today sadly.

Not really, 'Ghost Town' was more a stark observation of parts of the nation under a political lockdown. It is a quite brilliant snapshot of a society on the edge.

 

[darkwolf666]

I still cant see past this. Even after all these years. Precursor to the Electronic 1980s

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...my+father&form=PRDLR1&src=IE11TR&pc=EUPP_DCTE

This is a great shout - and probably sowed the seeds of my love of synthesized music, the Moog line on this is fantastic and was so out of keeping of the stuff around at the time. Chicory Tip themselves looked just a boy band of the times and that Moog sound, just seemed odd - but boy did it work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWI2L1g76Jg

 

[Barrow Boy]

Hard to separate these, so I didn't.

 

[sams dad]

Hard to separate these, so I didn't.

Sorry fella , but. Music by John Miles only made no.3 in the UK.
Still 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.

 

[NooBHA]

This is a great shout - and probably sowed the seeds of my love of synthesized music, the Moog line on this is fantastic and was so out of keeping of the stuff around at the time. Chicory Tip themselves looked just a boy band of the times and that Moog sound, just seemed odd - but boy did it work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWI2L1g76Jg

I too went on to love all the synthesized music. At the time of that song I am not sure I was really old enough to recognise that it was a new sound. I just loved the song. And it sounds great still.

 

[Barrow Boy]

Sorry fella , but. Music by John Miles only made no.3 in the UK.
Still 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.

All number ones in my mind pal.

 

[Gwylan]

This is impossible, but I'll attempt to submit a song shortly. They're all here if you want to have a look through by decade - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_UK_Singles_Chart_number_ones

Just looked through. Amazingly, I have only five No 1s in my collection

I'll have to pick one of them, so I'm going for I Heard it Through the Grapevine

 

[smillie's garden]

Err

 

[Surf's Up]

This - mainly because of the teenage associations that go with it - doing A levels at Hastings College, Hastings girls, long hot Summer of 1967, sex up on the West Hill by the castle, Swedish girls, The Pump House and The Anchor, French girls, all-nighters on Hastings Pier, sex on the beach, drug experimentation, hop picking at Guiness's farm at Bodiam in September, sex on the pier, coffee upstairs in the intimate darkness of the Pam Dor, bands at the Witch Doctor, vodka and lime, Italian girls, Merrydown, getting sacked from 3 different holiday jobs ..... and everything else that goes with being 17 and innocent that memorable breakout summer!!

https://youtu.be/F-COxkzp3mQ