"the single featured Reagan as a biker with Nancy riding pillion. The B-side of this single was entitled ""Just A Prince Who Can't Say No"" and poked fun at the sexual indiscretions of The Prince Andrew. The TV version of this song (featured in the second ever episode) was heavily censored by Central Television on broadcast but presented uncut on vinyl. In the television series he was shown surrounded by various famous women including Joan Collins, Mary Whitehouse and Linda McCartney. In 1986, the ""Spitting Image"" puppets had a number one hit in the UK charts with ""The Chicken Song"","
"Spitting Image Spitting Image was a British satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by 'Spitting Image Productions' for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV network. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including ten BAFTA Television Awards, one for editing in 1989 and two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities prominent during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major and other politicians,"
"satirical puppet show ""Spitting Image"". With lyrics such as ""Hold a chicken in the air, stick a deckchair up your nose"" it was intended as a parody of novelty holiday songs which were popular at the time, and also topped the chart for three weeks. American singer Madonna had the biggest-selling album of the year with ""True Blue"". All singles released from it made the top five, including the number 1s ""Papa Don't Preach"", ""True Blue"", and ""La Isla Bonita"" which topped the chart the year after. The biggest-selling single of the year went to The Communards, with a hi-NRG"
"1986 in British music This is a summary of 1986 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. The first number 1 single of 1986 was the breakthrough hit for London synthpop duo the Pet Shop Boys. Their song ""West End Girls"" had climbed the charts during late 1985 and reached number 1 for two weeks in January. They would have three more top 20 hits this year as well as two top 20 albums, and were still reaching the top 10 in 2006, twenty years later. Another popular synthpop duo this year were Erasure,"
"Michael Fenton Stevens Michael Fenton Stevens (born 12 February 1958 in London), added the 'Fenton' (his wife's name) when he became an actor and is sometimes mistakenly credited as Michael Fenton-Stevens. He is a British actor and comedian, a founder member of The Hee Bee Gee Bees and the voice behind the ""Spitting Image"" 1986 number 1 hit ""The Chicken Song"". He also starred in ""KYTV"", and its Radio 4 predecessor, ""Radio Active"". Fenton Stevens featured in regular roles as Hank in the 1996 series ""The Legacy of Reginald Perrin"", and as Ralph in Andy Hamilton's 2003 television sitcom ""Trevor's"
"""Spitting Image"" producer John Lloyd (as co-producer), who in 1979 were teamed up by producer Martin Lewis for the satirical audio album ""The Iron Lady"", which consisted of skits and songs satirising Thatcher's rise to power. The album was released in September 1979. Thatcher was the subject or the inspiration for 1980s protest songs. Musicians Billy Bragg and Paul Weller helped to form the Red Wedge collective to support Labour in opposition to Thatcher. Known as ""Maggie"" by supporters and opponents alike, the chant song ""Maggie Out"" became a signature rallying cry among the left during the latter half of"
"1985 to 3 January 1987. Based on sales from 29 December 1985 to 3 January 1987. Notes: The 1986 BRIT Awards winners were: 1986 in British music This is a summary of 1986 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. The first number 1 single of 1986 was the breakthrough hit for London synthpop duo the Pet Shop Boys. Their song ""West End Girls"" had climbed the charts during late 1985 and reached number 1 for two weeks in January. They would have three more top 20 hits this year as well as two"
"Frankie Muniz, Lee Press-On Nails and VH1 End Credit Video is Tears for Fears' ""Shout"" Makeout songs of 1986: Berlin- ""Take My Breath Away"", Peter Cetera & Amy Grant - ""The Next Time I Fall"", Atlantic Starr - ""Secret Lovers"" Babes of 1986: Susanna Hoffs, Kim Basinger, Stevie Nicks, Bette Midler and the Statue of Liberty Hunks: Tom Cruise, Walter Payton, Paul Hogan, Keith Hernandez and Howard the Duck PSA of 1986: ""Vote With A Friend. Make It Count More"" with Quincy Jones and James Ingram Mr. & Ms. 1986: Mike Tyson & Oprah Winfrey Born in 1986: Mary-Kate &"
"chart for one week. Genesis became the first group and foreign act to achieve this feat, equalling the five singles record set by Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and Madonna. Genesis commissioned the creators of the satirical British television show ""Spitting Image"", Peter Fluck and Roger Law, to make puppets of them in the style of the show for the video of ""Land of Confusion"". The Invisible Touch Tour was the band's largest world tour in its history which included 112 dates from September 1986 to July 1987. Genesis received some criticism in their decision to have Michelob beer as a"
"featured in a straight to video release called ""Rockin' Ronnie"" (1986), an otherwise unrelated compilation of movie clips released by ATI Video. The first twelve series including An 11-disc set (containing the first 7 series broadcast 1984-89) have been released by Network Distributing under licence by ITV Studios, so far. Series 1-7 individual releases are now deleted . DVD releases do not include any of the specials made. The show was adapted into a video game: ""Spitting Image"" and a comics magazine. Spitting Image Spitting Image was a British satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and"
"all reinstated in later episodes. The first episode had an audience of 7.9 million, but numbers rapidly dropped, which meant economies had to be introduced since the series cost £2.6 million, which was nearly double the price of other prime time series. The series had been scheduled to have 13 episodes but was cut back to 12, after the series was nearly cancelled. Rob Grant and Doug Naylor were then brought in as head writers to save the show. By 1986, under their supervision, ""Spitting Image"" had become popular, producing a number one song on the UK Singles Chart (""The"
"the top 5 on the Hot 100. Billboard Top Hits: 1986 Billboard Top Hits: 1986 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1994, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1986. The track lineup includes six songs that reached the top of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. Included is the No. 1 song of 1987, ""Walk Like an Egyptian"" by The Bangles; the song began its four-week run at No. 1 in December, after ""Billboard"" magazine's 1987 chart year had started. The remaining four songs (Danger Zone, Take Me Home Tonight/Be My Baby, When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough"
"1 to be released as a CD single was Whitney Houston's ""I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"" released in May. The second was the cassette single where the song is released on an audio tape - the BPI began recording their sales this year, but they would not become eligible until 1989. Both formats would dominate the chart throughout the 1990s. Synthpop bands Pet Shop Boys and Erasure continued their success from their breakthrough year in 1986, with the Pet Shop Boys achieving their second number 1 single (""It's a Sin"") in the summer, and two more top"
"Your Ear"" was produced, featuring some of their sketches over time along with a few of their songs, followed in 1990 by ""20 Great Golden Gobs"", a songs-only collection from the 1986-1990 series. In 1986, the ""Spitting Image"" team experienced some real musical success when they created the video for ""Land of Confusion"" by Genesis, a song which implied that Thatcher and Reagan were about to bring the world to a nuclear war. Phil Collins saw a disfigured version of himself on the show and contacted the show's producers with the idea to produce the video. Three new puppets were"
"Billboard Top Hits: 1986 Billboard Top Hits: 1986 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1994, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1986. The track lineup includes six songs that reached the top of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. Included is the No. 1 song of 1987, ""Walk Like an Egyptian"" by The Bangles; the song began its four-week run at No. 1 in December, after ""Billboard"" magazine's 1987 chart year had started. The remaining four songs (Danger Zone, Take Me Home Tonight/Be My Baby, When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going and Burning Heart) each reached"
"in 1984, he became one of the voice artists for the satirical show ""Spitting Image"", impersonating Boy George, Holly Johnson and Mick Jagger for the first two series. It was during his time on ""Spitting Image"" that a producer for the BBC spotted him, and got him work on ""Pebble Mill at One"". After the success of these appearances, he was given his own series called ""Cool It"" (BBC). The first series of ""Cool It"" was repeated within a matter of months. There was a tie-in video release of the best moments of ""Cool It"". The second series aired in"
"Balance"" by Jackson Browne. ""Please Forgive Us"" by 10,000 Maniacs, and ""Untitled Song for Latin America"" by Minutemen. When Britain's ITV network launched the satirical puppet show ""Spitting Image"" in 1984, the first record released in relation to the show was a rework of the Crystals' ""Da Doo Ron Ron"". The ""Spitting Image"" version, ""Da Do Run Ron,"" was a spoof election campaign song for Ronald Reagan, featuring Nancy Reagan listing reasons why he should be re-elected. The cover featured the puppet versions of the Reagans that appeared on the show and later starred in the 1986 video for ""Land"
"Les Démons de minuit ""Les Démons de minuit"" is the debut single of the French band Images. Released in June 1986, it was the first single from their first album ""Album d'Images"". Very popular, the song was a huge hit in France. It was the summer hit of 1986, peaking at number one for 13 weeks. ""Les Démons de minuit"" was also released as an English version (by the same group), titled ""Love Emotion"". It was very difficult for the group to find a record company agreeing to sign a contract with them, because at the beginning nobody believed in"
"classics, ""Pretty Vacant"" and ""Sheena Is a Punk Rocker"". As well as the label was operating in 1978, the disastrous commercial and critical failure of RSO's movie version of ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" crippled the company. The woes of this failure were only somewhat offset by the middle of 1979, as the Bee Gees album ""Spirits Having Flown"" went on to eventually sell nearly 20 million copies (with the album producing three further number 1 singles that each sold more than one million copies in their own right). In 1980, the label's most famous act, the Bee Gees,"
"singing at the top of a mountain. It was filmed at the Red Rock Canyon, Nevada. ""Like Flames"" was released as the lead-off single from the album in October 1986 and, following up ""Take My Breath Away"", a #1 record in September of that year, was expected to do well. However, the record and the album did not find chart success, peaking at #82 in the US and becoming their last chart hit in that country. In Europe, the record performed better on the strength of ""Take My Breath Away"", reaching the top 20 in several countries, but still it"
"Murdoch were also on the show, the latter depicted as an extremely flatulent individual encouraging obscenity in his mass media. Lord Lucan appeared in various background roles often as a bar tender. The first single from ""Spitting Image"", released in 1984, was a rework of the Crystals' ""Da Doo Ron Ron"". The ""Spitting Image"" version, ""Da Do Run Ron"", was a spoof election campaign song for Ronald Reagan, featuring Nancy Reagan listing reasons why ""you gotta re-elect him"", with lyrics like ""Yeah! He can really act, Yeah! He lowered income tax, Yeah! He hates the Warsaw Pact"". The cover of"
"1986 ""Crush on You"", which peaked at #3 in July 1986 on the USA ""Billboard"" Hot 100 (#5 UK, #4 US R&B, #4 US Dance). They are also known for the singles ""You Got It All"", ""Cross My Broken Heart"", ""Rocket 2 U"", and ""Make It Real"". ""Sendin' All My Love"", which peaked at #88 on the Hot 100, reached #1 on the ""Billboard"" dance chart; ""You Got It All"" and ""Make It Real"", both ballads featuring lead vocals by Elizabeth Wolfgramm, were #1 hits on the ""Billboard"" adult contemporary chart. The band was nominated for a Grammy Award in"
"points out, been living in exile in Paris and had been previously imprisoned by the South African regime for his interracial marriage. It has also been speculated that the song was also poking fun at the South African-born series producer, Jon Blair. I've Never Met a Nice South African ""I've Never Met a Nice South African"" is a satirical song originating in a sketch on the British television series ""Spitting Image"" (series 2, episode 5). It was written by John Lloyd and Peter Brewis and was sung by Andy Roberts. In 1986 it was commercially released as the B-side of"
"was called ""Single"" whilst the 12"" single was called ""12-inch Single"". The music video had the title card ""Video"", and a 1986 compilation of music videos by the band was titled ""Videos"". Each release used the same basic design as the LP, CD and cassette covers, although second single ""Home"" was issued under its own name. A 1990 boxed set of Public Image Limited albums was called ""Box"", and a 2010 deluxe reissue of the album included ""Poster"" - an art print - and a making-of book entitled ""Book"". The 2012 CD remaster of the album is titled ""Album"" when"
"their first Top 10 hit in early 1986 with ""System Addict"", the seventh UK single from their debut album. The single peaked at #3 and was certified Silver. Its success also led to increased sales of the album which peaked at #12 on the UK Albums Chart in February 1986, and would be certified Platinum in the UK later in the year. Also in 1986, the instrumental track ""First Avenue"" (which had been released as the B-side to ""All Fall Down"") was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance, and a remixed version of ""Love Take Over"""
"I've Never Met a Nice South African ""I've Never Met a Nice South African"" is a satirical song originating in a sketch on the British television series ""Spitting Image"" (series 2, episode 5). It was written by John Lloyd and Peter Brewis and was sung by Andy Roberts. In 1986 it was commercially released as the B-side of the chart-topping ""The Chicken Song"". When the song was recorded, South Africa was under an apartheid regime and widely considered a pariah state as a result. The song is narrated in the music video by a seasoned expatriate traveller who describes his"
"breaks away from his happy ending to join his band in performance amidst mannequins at a rural church, Saint Albans in Teddington, which has since become an art gallery. ""The Sun Always Shines on T.V."" improved upon the first single's success in the United Kingdom, hitting number one and remaining there for two weeks in January 1986. It was a top-10 hit nearly everywhere it was released except in the United States, where it peaked at #20 and would be the band's last major hit to date in that country. The single sold 5 million copies around the world. The"
"came two years later, in 1986, with ""Digging Your Scene"", from their second album, ""Animal Magic"" (which reached number 21 in the UK Albums Chart). The single attracted attention for the topical lyrics, dealing with the AIDS-fuelled backlash against gay people. It peaked at number 14 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number 7 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. In addition, it reached a high of number 12 in the UK Singles Chart, number 24 in Italy and number 25 in Germany. In January 1987, ""She Was Only a Grocer's Daughter"", the band's third album was released;"
"released his first single under the name Ranking Citrus, or Citchie for short, being known for his love of citrus fruits. He went on to work on the Stereo One sound system, where he adopted the stage name Stitchie after being credited as such via a misprinted record label. In 1986 he began working with Prince Jammy, recording the single ""Wear Yuh Size"", followed in 1987 with his debut album ""Great Ambition"". His style was humorous, often adopting the voices of several different characters during a song. His single ""Natty Dread"" topped the Jamaican charts for fourteen weeks. Commercial success"
"in 1986. The new name was taken from a quotation in an ""NME"" article on Jamie Wednesday by David Quantick. In 1986, the band released the ""Poppies Say Grrr!"" single which became the 'Single Of The Week' in the ""NME"" and playlisted by Janice Long BBC Radio 1. The single was sold in a brown paper bag and was made available for sale at Martins Newsagents in Stourbridge High Street as well as from the home of one of the band. With their newfound popularity, the band set off on a six-week tour of Europe, often encountering hostility at the"
"and Michael) appeared as themselves in the 1987 film, ""Rita, Sue and Bob Too"", which featured ""Gang Bang"" and ""Have a Screw"", which had been recorded by Barton and Gibb the previous year, the pair (Barton/Gibb) where also immortalised as caricatures in the TV show 'Spitting Image' and the hit single 'The Chicken Song' The band had a UK hit with their album ""Party Crazy"". 1987 saw a switcharound; Gibb returned whilst Barton left to join Smokie. Michael became a full-time member of Black Lace and he and Gibb released the single ""Jammin' the Sixties"" under the name Barracuda. The"
"the 1986 album ""The Doctor"", ""Lap of Luxury"" spawned three top 40 hit singles and one minor hit single. After ""The Flame"" topped the American Billboard Hot 100, a cover of Elvis Presley's ""Don't Be Cruel"" peaked at #4. The third single ""Ghost Town"" continued the commercial success, peaking at #33 whilst the fourth single ""Never Had a Lot to Lose"" peaked at #75. The album opener ""Let Go"" also peaked at #32 on the American Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The success of ""The Flame"" brought the group out of a years-long commercial slump and back into music industry prominence."
"200. The first two singles from the album, ""You Give Love a Bad Name"" and ""Livin' on a Prayer"", both hit number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. ""Slippery…"" was named 1987's top-selling album by ""Billboard"" ""Livin' On A Prayer"" won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Stage Performance. The band won an award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band at the American Music Awards and an award for Favorite Rock Group at the People's Choice Awards. When ""Slippery When Wet"" was released in August 1986, Bon Jovi was the support act for 38 Special. By the end of 1986, Bon"