Throwback Thursday 10.11.16

Welcome to the 70s...

While there has been plenty of political news to focus on this week, we chose to keep a keen eye on music. The all too fabulous Kate Bush has been popped back into the spotlight. The singer has given her first interview since 2011, and spoke about her stage return in 2014.

This week we will be taking the throwback all the way back to 1978, the peak of Kate Bush's career, Wuthering Heights. This dramatic single enjoyed four weeks at number one, here's some of the other highlights of 1978. Click here to listen to the full playlist.

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights.

ABBA - Take a Chance on Me

Also a chart topping success, this single rocked the top spot for three weeks (not quite in the same league as Kate but still pretty impressive.) To this day it is still one of the Swedish group's biggest hits, it's even one of the songs in the band's musical Mamma Mia.

Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta - Summer Nights/ You're the One That I Want

1978 was the year this critically acclaimed musical got it's day on the silver screen as well as dominating the charts. Its soundtrack album ended 1978 as the second-best selling album of the year in the United States, behind the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever.

Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone

The tune was the lead-off track on The Nerves' 1976 EP, the group's only release. New wave band Blondie later popularised Hanging on the Telephone, when it released a cover of the song as the second single off Parallel Lines. The tune eventually reached number 5 in the UK in November 1978