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Jason Maloney reviews
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Phil Collins: Face Value (Virgin)This is where it all started to kick off for the Genesis vocalist/drummer. An obscenely-successful solo career began with In The Air Tonight, the first single from Face Value and a #2 smash. Face Value itself swiftly followed in the second week of February 1981, and hit the top spot in Britain. Nothing unusual in that for Collins, already an album chart-topper with Genesis' 1980 effort Duke, but Face Value went on to spend a mind-boggling 274 weeks on the UK album listings during the decade that he ended up becoming a global megastar. Curiously, despite Face Value's ubquity in the 80s charts, it failed to produce another Top 10 hit, the #14 high of I Missed Again coming marginally closer than If Leaving Me Is Easy's #17 peak. |
Christopher Cross: Christopher Cross (Warner Bros)The multi-Grammy winner from the US cleaned up Stateside with his debut set, which included major hit singles Sailing, Ride Like The Wind and Say You'll Be Mine. Success on this side of the Atlantic proved harder to come by, initially at least, with none of the aforementioned tracks making the UK Top 40. Slick west-coast AOR with a pop sheen was popular at times over here, and in time Cross landed himself a Top 10 hit in the UK with Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do) from the Dudley Moore/Liza Minelli/John Gielgud movie Arthur. This eponymous album did however notch up an impressive 77 weeks on the chart, although it never rose higher than #14. The eventual breakthrough with Arthur's Theme doubtless helped its longevity. |
Also released this week:The Stranglers' follow-up to 1979's The Raven arrived on the shelves, but THEMENINBLACK (United Artists) failed to sell beyond their fanbase, as continuing failure on the singles Top 40 (latest effort Thrown Away fell short at #42) impacted upon the ability of their albums to stay the course. A #8 entry on the chart dated February 21st was followed by just four further appearances on the listings. Rush, by contrast, kept going from strength to strength. Moving Pictures (Vertigo) picked up where Hemispheres had left off, giving the Canadian prog rockers a UK Top 3 album. It was a level of a success they would match for the rest of the decade, until 1989's live album A Show Of Hands broke the sequence by peaking at #12. Rainbow (nee Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow) saw in the Eighties with a new line-up (minus Ronnie James Dio) and a new studio release, Difficult to Cure, (Polydor). Boosted by a third UK Top 10 single in as many years, this time with I Surrender, the album went top 5 despite dismay among hardcore fans at the record's softer direction. |
Check the Album Archive database at: The Album Archive.com
The following is a list of Jason's Album Archives online for week ending:
Vol.21: September 12th 1988 (15/09/2005) Vol.20: June 30th 1986 (02/07/2005) Vol.19: June 25th 1984 (23/06/2005) Vol.18: June 17th 1985 (16/06/2005) Vol.17: June 04th 1979 (08/06/2005) Vol.16: May 30th 1983 (02/06/2005) Vol.15: May 22nd 1989 (26/05/2005) Vol.14: May 15th 1995 (20/05/2005) Vol.13: May 2nd 1988 (12/05/2005) Vol.12: April 26th 1982 (28/04/2005) Vol.11: April 17th 1990 (21/04/2005) Vol.10: April 13th 1987 (14/04/2005) Vol.9: April 8th 1991 (08/04/2005) Vol.8: March 31st 1986 (01/04/2005) Vol.7: March 14th 1988 (24/03/2005) Vol.6: March 5th 1984 (17/03/2005) Vol.5: February 28th 1983 (03/03/2005) Vol.4: February 25th 1985 (24/02/2005) Vol.3: February 9th 1981 (10/02/2005) Vol.2: February 2nd 1987 (03/02/2005) Vol.1: January 25th 1993 (25/01/2005)
And in chronological order:
June 04th 1979: Vol.17 (08/06/2005) February 9th 1981: Vol.3 (10/02/2005) April 26th 1982: Vol.12 (28/04/2005) February 28th 1983: Vol.5 (03/03/2005) May 30th 1983: Vol.16 (02/06/2005) March 5th 1984: Vol.6 (17/03/2005) June 25th 1984: Vol.19 (23/06/2005) February 25th 1985: Vol.4 (24/02/2005) June 17th 1985: Vol.18 (16/06/2005) March 31st 1986: Vol.8 (01/04/2005) June 30th 1986: Vol.20 (02/07/2005) February 2nd 1987: Vol.2 (03/02/2005) April 13th 1987: Vol.10 (14/04/2005) March 14th 1988: Vol.7 (24/03/2005) May 2nd 1988: Vol.13 (12/05/2005) September 12th 1988: Vol.21 (15/09/2005) May 22nd 1989: Vol.15 (26/05/2005) April 17th 1990: Vol.11 (21/04/2005) April 8th 1991: Vol.9 (08/04/2005) January 25th 1993: Vol.1 (25/01/2005) May 15th 1995: Vol.14 (20/05/2005)
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