{"id":6184,"date":"2009-06-26T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T16:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2009-06-26T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T16:21:19","slug":"30-years-ago-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6184","title":{"rendered":"30 Years Ago, in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

A handful of #1's from the UK, 1979<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric?<\/strong>
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\nThat's Gary Numan pre-\"Cars\". A bit of a revelation for me, since I didn't know he ever did anything but that one song.<\/p>\n

Blondie - Sunday Girl<\/strong>
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\nAnother revelation for me. Up until recently, I didn't know this song was any kind of hit at all (let alone a #1). My friends and I were huge (9 year old) Blondie fans, but local radio never played this one. To us, this one was (as the kids on XM say) a \"deep cut\". Maybe it was only really big in the UK?<\/p>\n

Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall<\/strong>
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\nMy 4th grade teacher would let us play records on the little crappy turntable before school started. I lived across the street from a juke box \/ arcade supply company, and would spend all of my allowance on 45s which I brought in to school. This song was a favorite in the classroom.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Pink...
\nBoomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays<\/strong>
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Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick<\/strong>
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\nI've never heard this one before. I only know these guys from the earlier and much better \"Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll\":
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A handful of #1's from the UK, 1979: Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric? That's Gary Numan pre-\"Cars\". A bit of a revelation for me, since I didn't know he ever did anything but that one song. Blondie - Sunday Girl Another revelation for me. Up until recently, I didn't know this song was any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}