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45 The Beautiful South – A Little Time +2 44 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution – 3 a.m. Eternal 43 Adamski – Killer36 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub Be Good To Me 34 The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go +2 33 Snap! – The Power 33 Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven 27 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody/These are the Days of our Lives 26 Madonna – Vogue 23 Enigma – Sadeness (Part 1) 22 Vic Reeves & the Wonder Stuff – Dizzy 20 Michael Jackson – Black Or White 21 Chesney Hawkes – The One And Only -3 18 Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter ... To The Slaughter 16 Queen – Innuendo 11 Kylie Minogue – Tears On My Pillow 08 George Michael & Elton John – Don´t Let The Sun Go Down On Me -3

Obituary for Rosemary Hart, founding editor & producer of Radio 4's Kaleidoscope, and former presenter of Saturday Club, 89.

42 Adamski – Killer 42 The Beautiful South – A Little Time +2 35 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution – 3 a.m. Eternal 34 Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven 34 Chesney Hawkes – The One And Only 34 The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go +2 30 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub Be Good To Me 29 Enigma – Sadeness (Part 1) 27 Snap! – The Power 24 Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter ... To The Slaughter 23 Madonna – Vogue 22 Vic Reeves & the Wonder Stuff – Dizzy -3 21 Queen – These Are the Days of our Lives 21 Queen – Innuendo 20 Sinéad O´Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U 20 George Michael & Elton John – Don´t Let The Sun Go Down On Me 16 England New Order – World In Motion -3 15 Kylie Minogue – Tears On My Pillow 12 Michael Jackson – Black Or White 11 U2 – The Fly

Craig and Charlie Reid, known collectively as The Proclaimers, are 61 today. Here's one for all the Scots Nats.

Its one year since the untimely death of Shane Warne, aged 52, a few hours after the slightly less untimely death of Rod Marsh aged 74 Marsh had suffered a heart attack while on his way to an event eight days earlier and died in hospital. Warne was on holiday in Koh Samui, and had paid tribute to Marsh on social media before he too had a fatal heart attack.

41 Adamski – Killer 40 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution – 3 a.m. Eternal 36 The Beautiful South – A Little Time +2 32 Chesney Hawkes – The One And Only 31 Snap! – The Power 30 Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven 30 The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go +2 29 Vic Reeves & the Wonder Stuff – Dizzy 28 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub Be Good To Me 26 Enigma – Sadeness (Part 1) 24 Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter ... To The Slaughter 24 Sinéad O´Connor – Nothing compares 2 U 24 Queen – Innuendo 22 Queen – These are the Days of our Lives 22 England New Order – World In Motion -3 21 Kylie Minogue – Tears On My Pillow 21 Madonna – Vogue 20 George Michael & Elton John – Don´t let the sun go down on me 16 Michael Jackson – Black Or White -3 13 U2 – The Fly 13 The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody 9 Elton John – Sacrifice/Healing hands

35 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution – 3 a.m. eternal 34 Adamski – Killer 34 Queen – Innuendo 33 The Beautiful South – A little time +3 28 Snap! –The Power 26 Maria McKee – Show me heaven 26 The Clash – Should I stay or should I go +1 24 Iron Maiden – Bring your daughter ... to the slaughter 24 Enigma – Sadeness (Part 1) 24 Chesney Hawkes – The one and only 24 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub be good to me 24 England New Order – World in motion 23 Vic Reeves & the Wonder Stuff – Dizzy 22 Sinéad O´Connor – Nothing compares 2 U 21 Michael Jackson – Black or white 21 The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody 20 Kylie Minogue – Tears on my pillow 20 George Michael & Elton John – Don´t let the sun go down on me 20 Madonna – Vogue 17 Elton John – Sacrifice/Healing hands 16 U2 – The Fly 13 New Kids on the Block – Hangin´ Tough 12 Queen - These are the Days of our Lives 12 Partners In Kryme – Turtle Power 12 Jason Donovan – Any dream will do 12 Color Me Badd - I wanna sex you up 11 Cher – The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in his Kiss) -6 10 Steve Miller Band – The Joker

They were all at it.

Its 32 years since the death of Howard Head, aged 76. Head was an aeronatical engineer in his early 30s, working for Glenn L. Martin, when he went skiing for the first time; frustrated with the heavy traditional wooden skis, he decided to look into developing a lighter, easier to handle, ski, and quit his job, living off his earnings from playing poker. Early prototypes were certainly lighter, but broke too easily, but he persisted; By the end of the winter of 1947, he'd developed a pair of skis that were as strong as the wooden ones, but only half the weight. The Head Ski company was founded in 1950, and soon became the leading alpine ski supplier in the US, and diversified to other sports equipment, the most notable being the Arthur Ashe tennis racquet, made from an aluminum (sic) honeycomb. In 1969 Head sold the ciompany and retired. On retirement he decided to take up tennis, which lead him to become majority shareholder and chairman of the board of Prince, the manufacturer of his tennis ball machine. He improved the machine, but that didn't improve his tennis. He determined that the size of the racquet's "sweet-spot" was hindering him, and developed an oversize racquet, which he patented. He also pioneered graphite as a material to replace wood, leading that to become industry standard.

Its 30 years since the death of Hans Hilfiker, aged 91. He was a Swiss engineer and designer, most famous for his design of the Swiss Railway clock for Swiss Federal Railways, (SBB). The original 1944 design had no second hand (as timetables don't list times to the second) but one was added in 1953, in the style of the baton used by despatchers to signal a train to depart.

Steve Mackey report in The Guardian

26 The Beautiful South – A little time +2 25 Adamski – Killer 25 Queen – Innuendo 25 The Clash – Should I stay or should I go +2 24 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody/These are the days of our lives 24 The KLF ft. The Children of the Revolution – 3 a.m. eternal23 Madonna – Vogue 22 Maria McKee – Show me heaven 22 Snap! – The Power 21 Beats International ft. Lindy Layton – Dub be good to me 21 Michael Jackson – Black or white 21 Vic Reeves & the Wonder Stuff – Dizzy 21 The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody 20 New Kids on the Block – Hangin´ Tough 20 Kylie Minogue – Tears on my pillow 20 England New Order – World in motion 20 Elton John – Sacrifice/Healing hands 20 Steve Miller Band – The Joker 20 Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby 20 Iron Maiden – Bring your daughter ... to the slaughter 20 Enigma – Sadeness (Part 1) 20 Chesney Hawkes – The one and only20 Color me Badd – I wanna sex you up 20 U2 – The Fly 20 George Michael & Elton John – Don´t let the sun go down on me 19 Jason Donovan – Any dream will do 18 Hale & Pace & the Stonkers – The Stonk 17 Cher – The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in his kiss) -3 16 Sinéad O´Connor – Nothing compares 2 U 14 Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby 13 Bombalurina – Itsie Bitsie Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini 13 The Simpsons – Do the Bartman 10 Cliff Richard – Saviour´s Day -3 10 Partners in Kryme – Turtle Power 8 Bryan Adams – (Everything I do) I do it for you As usual early in the game, so many I wanted to downvote. Note (as previously stated) I'm only voting for/against songs I actually know (don't make me listen to Turtle Power, I can imagine).

British comedy actor and writer George Layton is 80 today. After a few minor supporting roles his bigbreak came when he was cast as Doctor Paul Collier in 1969's Doctor in the House, a role he reprised in subsequent 'Doctor' series, '...at Large', '...in Charge' and '...at the Top' (he'd also had small a role in that other 'Doctor' programme, as technician Penn). He also began writing for the 'Doctor...' series and other writing credits included My Brother's Keeper, Nearest & Dearest, Executive Stress and Don't Wait Up. He continued in acting, with a starring role as Bombardier Solly Solomons, in It Ain't Half Hot, Mum. before leaving at the end of the second season. He had two guest appearances in The Sweeney and a recurring role in Minder (which he says he lost because he took a break to appear in panto), and was one of the original hosts of That's Life. Other works include voiceover & narration for cartoons, TV commercials (Sydney of The Tetley Tea-folk) stage acting & directing and author of childrens books. Another It Ain't Half Hot Mum alumnus, Stuart McGugan, is exactly one year younger. IAHHM was his big break, playing concert-party strongman Gunner 'Atlas' Mackintosh - made to appear bigger by positioning him in close proximity to Don Estelle and Melvyn Hayes. Alongside his IAHHM appearances he was also a presenter on children's TV series Play School, from which he was nearly fired for drop-kicking Humpty over the set. Another major role was as Bomba MacAteer in the drama Tutti Frutti (alongside Robbie Coltrane & Emma Thompson) and then a regular role alongside Robert Carlyle in Hamish Macbeth.

Looking forward to this now.

No, that would be 99 Luftballons.

As Wikipedia might say, "citation needed". I'd be interested in seeing some numbers.

24 Nena – 99 Red Balloons +4 23 Blondie — Atomic -2 14 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 6 David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes -4 I don't not like Ashes to Ashes, but its not one of Bowie's best (imo), and (also imo) is one of the worst two of the four remainers.

Richard Franklin pictured yesterday

29 Nena – 99 Red Balloons +2 24 Soft Cell – Tainted Love +2 20 Blondie – Atomic 14 David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes 13 George Michael – Careless Whisper -6 7 Pet Shop Boys – It’s a Sin 4 Kraftwerk – The Model/Computer Love -

Our Fathers, who art in heaven... Dermot Morgan, as Father Ted, 25 years ago, aged 45 Frank Kelly, as Father Jack, 7 years ago, aged 77.

Its 32 years since the death of Artie Mitchell, of the Mitchell Brothers (not those Mitchell brothers), noted pornographers of San Francisco and environs. The brothers opened San Francisco's O'Farrell Theatre in 1969, (appropriately enough for an 'adult' cinema) facing immediate opposition from neighbours and the authorities - a situation they would find themselves in repeatedly over the years (they faced over 200 prosecutions on obscenity charges, each being imprisoned over 180 times). As film-makers their most famous work was Behind The Green Door, which cost $60,000 to make and grossed over $25million. (The sequel, made in 1985, was less successful, and has been called one of the worst porn pictures ever made. It was the world's first 'safe sex' film, with the male actors wearing condoms). By 1991, Artie was drinking heavily and friends and associates implored Jim to 'do something'. Jim visited Artie with a rifle, intending, he said, to scare him. Artie was hit 3 times, out of 7 shots fired, one hitting him in the right eye, killing him. He was 45. Jim was sentenced to 6 years (serving 3) for manslaughter.

27 Nena — 99 Red Balloons +2 25 Soft Cell – Tainted Love +2 24 Pet Shop Boys - It’s A Sin 24 Kraftwerk - The Model/Computer Love 23 George Michael - Careless Whisper 20 Blondie – Atomic 19 Madonna – Into The Groove 07 Men at Work – Down Under -6 06 David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes

34 Kraftwerk – The Model / Computer Love 29 Nena — 99 red balloons +4 28 Blondie – Atomic 25 Madonna – Into The Groove 24 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 19 Pet Shop Boys – It’s a Sin  17 George Michael – Careless Whisper 16 Men at Work – Down Under -3 15 David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes 11 Madonna — Like a Prayer 7 The Specials - Ghost Town -3

Its 31 years since the death of Jean Yawkey. A one-time fashion model, she assumed ownership of the Boston Red Sox on the death of her husband Tom Yawkey, in 1976. She was also the first woman board-member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, on her election in 1983. During her ownership, the Sox reached the World Series Final of 1986, losing in seven games to the NY Mets chiefly remembered for the sixth game when a ground ball eluded first-baseman Bill Bucknor, with the Sox within touching distance of victory. On her death, after a stroke at age 83, control passed to the Yawkey Trust, who sold to New England Sports Ventures, now Fenway Sports Group, in 2002.

I voted 60s but not fussed if it’s 90s. My interest in Eurovision spans late-60s to mid-90s with a huge gap in the 80s, so this KoS would be my least-best option.