On the week of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee, Rod Stewart's I Don't
Want To Talk About It/First Cut Is The Deepest continued to hold sway, at the
expense of the Sex Pistols' less-than-complimentary God Save The Queen. Rumours
persist to this day that the latter was in fact the best-selling single of
the week, although the industry has always denied any chart-fiddling ever went
on.
God Save The Queen had climbed 9 places from its debut position of #11,
but went into immediate decline the week after reaching #2 and the band would
never top the UK listings.
The Very Best of The Jacksons
Shunted down a place from #2 to #3 thanks to the Sex Pistols' ascent,
Lucille by Kenny Rogers looked to have peaked just short of the summit but the
following week it would rebound quite remarkably to #1. However, it would be
swiftly deposed by the record currently at #6 - Show You The Way To Go
by The Jacksons, up from #23.
Having altered their name from The Jackson Five and left
the Motown label for Epic, the brothers achieved something they'd never
previously managed in the UK; a chart-topping single.
ELO: The Ultimate Collection
Show You The Way To Go's 17-place jump made it the highest climber on the
chart, while Carole Bayer Sager's You're Moving Out Today moved up 10 places to
#7 after debuting higher than The Jacksons a week earlier.
Other movers
within the upper half of the Top 40 included Telephone Line, which took the
Electric Light Orchestra up from #18 to #13 on its way to the Top 10, and Bryan
Ferry's Tokyo Joe at a high of #15 after yoyo-ing around the mid-20s for 3 weeks.
Emerson Lake & Palmer: The Ultimate Collection
For the second time in a row, the highest entry was by a Prog Rock act.
Emerson Lake & Palmer's Fanfare For The Common Man came in at #25, 3 places below
Spot The Pigeon, the latest Genesis release which was already dropping from
its #14 debut position.
Making slow but steady progress in the lower regions were Peaches by The
Stranglers (up 4 to #23; eventual peak #8) and, rather fittingly in Jubilee
week, Queen's Good Old Fashioned Loverboy (advancing 7 to #29; final high #17).
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
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