Which girl group took 'Manic Monday' to Number two in the UK charts in 1986?
"Manic Monday ""Manic Monday"" is a song by the American pop rock band The Bangles, and the first single released from their second studio album, ""Different Light"" (1986). It was written by American musician Prince, using the pseudonym ""Christopher"". Originally intended for the group Apollonia 6 in 1984, he offered the song to The Bangles two years later. Lyrically, it describes a woman who is waking up to go to work on Monday, wishing it were still Sunday so she could instead relax. The song, which was released on Monday January 27, 1986 by Columbia Records, received generally positive reviews"
"Knew What She Wants"", both were ""refreshingly melodic"". Chris Willman from ""Los Angeles Times"" commented: ""The first single 'Manic Monday' represents slumming songwriter Prince's attempt mostly successful save for the inevitable getting down interlude to concoct a modern day Mamas and the Papas hit."" ""Manic Monday"" debuted at number 86 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, on the week ending January 25, 1986, and reached a peak of number two, on the issue dated April 19, 1986, being blocked from the top of the chart by Prince and the Revolution's single ""Kiss"". In the United Kingdom ""Manic Monday"" debuted at number"
"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,"
"85 on February 8, 1986, and entered the top 40, at number 24, on February 22, 1986. The song eventually reached its peak position, at number two, the next month. In Germany, the single debuted at number 29 on March 17, 1986, reaching the top 10 in the next three weeks, and its peak, also at number two, on April 14, 1986, where it stayed two weeks. It remained in the top 10 for four more weeks leaving the charts on July 20, 1986. In Switzerland ""Manic Monday"" debuted at number 12 on March 30, 1986, becoming the highest debut"
"of the week. It reached its peak two weeks later at number four, where it remained another week. In the Netherlands, the single debuted at number 43 on February 22, 1986; and managed to reach number 24. It stayed on the chart for seven weeks. In Norway, ""Manic Monday"" debuted at number nine in the 10th week of 1986, becoming the second highest debut of the week. It also reached the number four two weeks later, where it stayed another two. The song also peaked within the top five in the Austrian, the Irish, and the New Zealand charts. Manic"
"UK Singles Chart in November 1986 and reached number one in the US on December 20, staying at the top of the Hot 100 for four weeks, carrying it over into January 1987. The song is the first song by an all-female group playing their own instruments to top the ""Billboard"" singles chart. The success of the song and ""Manic Monday"" propelled ""Different Light"" to number two on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart, making it the group's most successful album. The music video for ""Walk Like an Egyptian"" was nominated for Best Group Video at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards."
"audience serving as the opening act for Cyndi Lauper on her Fun Tour. All this went some way to attracting the attention of Prince, who gave them ""Manic Monday"" originally written for his group Apollonia 6. ""Manic Monday"" went on to become a number-two hit in the US, the UK and Germany, outsold at the time only by another Prince composition, his own ""Kiss"". The band's second album ""Different Light"" (January 1986) was more polished than its predecessor and, with the help of the worldwide number-one hit ""Walk Like an Egyptian"" (written by Liam Sternberg), saw the band firmly in"
"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"
"gave them another US Hot R&B Top 10 hit (reaching #9). Their first new material in 1986, the single ""Can't Wait Another Minute"", gave the group another Top 10 hit on the UK Singles, US Hot R&B and US Hot Dance/Disco charts and also their highest ever US Hot 100 peak, reaching #41. After another UK Top 10 hit (""Find the Time""), the group released their second album, ""Silk and Steel"", in August 1986. The album reached #1 and sold 1.2 million copies in the UK (being certified 4× Platinum by 1987). The single ""Rain or Shine"" gave the group"
"number one on the UK album chart, becoming the groups first UK number one album. ""Glory Days"" sold 96,000 copies in combined sales in the first week which is the highest first week sales for a UK girl group number one album since the Spice Girls in 1997 and spent five weeks at number one making the album the longest reigning number one by a girl group since the Spice Girls. The album's second single, ""Touch"", was released in December 2016 and peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart, later being certified double platinum in the UK for"
"number one spot. In 1979, ""I Don't Like Mondays"", was released. This was written in response to a school shooting in California carried out by Brenda Ann Spencer, and also reached No. 1 in the UK. It was a worldwide hit, with the exception being the United States. It was the band's only song to reach the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and was included in the band's third album, ""The Fine Art of Surfacing"". The album also contained ""Diamond Smiles"" and their next Top 10 hit in the UK, ""Someone's Looking at You"". In 1980 ""Banana Republic"" was released, which"
"girl group album of all time in the UK. The album contained three UK number ones: ""Never Ever"", ""Under the Bridge""/""Lady Marmalade"" and ""Bootie Call"". ""Never Ever"" is the second best-selling girl group single of all-time in the UK, behind the Spice Girls' ""Wannabe"". It also won two Brit Awards: Best British Single and Best British Video, and the group were nominated for Best British Breakthrough Act. Their second album, ""Saints & Sinners"" (2000), became their first number-one album and achieved multi-platinum success. It included the UK number one singles ""Pure Shores"" and ""Black Coffee"". Amid in-fighting among the group"
"2 on the Billboard charts. On the week it might have reached No. 1, Whitney Houston's second album, ""Whitney,"" debuted at the top of the charts. Eventually, the group's 1989 album ""Dr. Feelgood"" would go on to claim the top ""Billboard"" spot. The album was also the band's third straight album to go quadruple platinum, after ""Shout at the Devil"" and ""Theatre of Pain"". 2017 Reissue DVD Listing Album Singles Girls, Girls, Girls (Mötley Crüe album) Girls, Girls, Girls is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released on May 15, 1987. The album contains a"
"the biggest-selling single by an all-female group of all time. Riding a wave of publicity and hype, the group released their next singles in the UK and Europe; in October ""Say You'll Be There"" was released topping the charts at number one for two weeks. In December ""2 Become 1"" was released, becoming their first Christmas number-one and selling 462,000 copies in its first week, making it the fastest selling single of the year. The two tracks continued the group's remarkable sales, giving them three of the top five biggest selling songs of 1996 in the UK. In November 1996,"
"conjunction with the array of hit singles it yielded: ""Mothers Talk"" (re-recorded yet again for its US release in 1986), ""Shout"" (no. 4 UK, no. 1 in the US, Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and a huge hit in other territories, in fact one of the biggest hit songs of the 1980s), ""Everybody Wants to Rule the World"" (their highest-charting UK and Irish hit at no. 2 and another no. 1 in the US and in Canada), ""Head over Heels"" (UK no. 12, US no. 3, Ireland no. 5, Canada no. 8), and ""I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording)"" (UK"
"point of the group, and attracted media attention with her sexually charged and rebellious image. The band was signed by MCA in December 1986 and released a cover version of the Holly and the Italians song ""Tell That Girl to Shut Up"" in late 1987. Months later the follow-up single ""I Want Your Love"", with its pop/punk crossover appeal, entered the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart. The band went on to release the hit album ""Pop Art"" in October. 1989 was the band's most successful year, with the number 3 hit single ""Baby I Don't Care"" and hit"
"Dancing"", which reached number three in the UK singles chart. They also had UK top twenty hits with ""Don't Make Waves"" (1980), ""Gotta Pull Myself Together"" (1980), ""Who's Gonna Rock You"" (1981), ""Attention to Me"" (1981), ""Chemistry"" (1981) and ""Don't Love Me Too Hard"" (1982). In 1981 they won the Tokyo Music Festival with the song ""Sexy Music"". In 1991 the group won a 33rd Japan Record Awards Kikaku-shō (Prize for Planning) for Cover version of Japanese pops. On 5 February 1974 Nolan made her first television appearance with her sisters when she was almost nine years old, as the"
"the UK Singles Chart at number 80, and within eight weeks of its release it had reached the top of the chart, becoming the first hip hop song to top the UK charts and the first British hip hop song to top a national chart. It maintained the number one position for two weeks and received a gold certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in January 1986. Across Europe, ""West End Girls"" also topped the singles chart in Norway, as well as peaking in the top three in Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland. In Canada, where"
"Band Aid II versions (though Fahey only appeared on the 1984 version). 1985 would be a quiet transitional year for Bananarama. London Records' release of ""Do Not Disturb"" (UK #31) would keep the girls' public profile alive. 1986 saw the release of their third album, ""True Confessions"" (UK #46, US #15) on which some production duties were taken up by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman known as Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW). The move resulted in the international number one hit, ""Venus"", (a remake of Shocking Blue's song from 1969, which had been a number 1 hit in 1970)."
"1986) and only spent 5 weeks on the chart, whereas, in contrast, ""So Macho"" had been on the UK chart for 28 weeks in 1986, where it had peaked at number 2. Initially Waterman declined to work with Sinitta, claiming that SAW were too busy. In the end though, SAW did work with Sinitta and her first single with the Hit Factory was ""Toy Boy"". In his book, Simon Cowell claims to have come up with the song idea for ""Toy Boy"", coining the phrase 'toy boy' which described older women dating considerably younger guys. However, this is contradicted by"
"UK top 10 a few months later. As her first album reached completion in the summer of that year, ""Heaven Knows"" was re-released and she toured the UK for the first time. A new song was recorded and released to end the year entitled ""Mated"". The song received wide critical acclaim gaining significant airplay. Her hit single ""Set Me Free"" was released in early 1986 and reached No. 7 in the UK, also seeing the success repeated throughout Europe. Her second album ""Breaking Away"" and follow up single to ""Set Me Free"" was released in August reaching No. 14 in"
"the UK. The B-side to this single, ""In the Night"", later resurfaced, in a longer remixed version, as the opening track to the duo's first remix album, ""Disco"", in 1986. This version was also used as the theme for the UK television series ""The Clothes Show"". Unperturbed by the low chart position, the band returned to the studio in August to re-record ""West End Girls"" with producer Stephen Hague. Released in October 1985, this new version initially entered the charts at a similarly low position, but began a slow rise so that, by January 1986, it achieved the top spot."
"the single ""Remembrance Day"", which reached No. 61 on the UK Singles Chart. The follow-up single, ""Marilyn Dreams"", failed to chart. In 1982, they re-released ""Nowhere Girl"" as a single, which reached No. 67 in the UK, but there was no immediate follow-up or full-length album. A revolving door of members started at this point. Drummer Boffey left and was replaced by Andy Johnson, while Martin Winter (aka Smedley) joined on bass. Next, Holliday left in 1983 to form Six Sed Red with Soft Cell associate Cindy Ecstasy (their biggest success came when Six Sed Red's song ""Dream Baby"" was"
"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"
"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"
"group since the Pussycat Dolls to reach the US top five with their debut album, as well as earning the highest debut US chart position for a British girl group's first release, breaking the record previously held by the Spice Girls. The group's second album ""Salute"" (2013) became their second album to debut inside the top 10 in both the UK and US. Their third album ""Get Weird"" was released in 2015. Their fourth album ""Glory Days"" (2016) became their first number one album in the UK, and also achieved the longest-reigning girl group number one album since the Spice"
"nominated for a BRIT Award for Best British Single. The album's sales did not meet the expectations of London Records and the group was subsequently dropped. Donaghy left the group in August 2001 and was replaced by former Atomic Kitten member Heidi Range. The group's second album ""Angels with Dirty Faces"" was released in August 2002 through Island Records. Influenced by the new wave, dance, and pop music of the 1980s, the record enjoyed success in the UK where it reached number two and went triple platinum. It produced the number one singles ""Freak like Me"" and ""Round Round"", and"
"""Rockstar"" and Soulja Boy Tell 'Em's ""Crank That"" climbed to number two. Amy Macdonald climbed to number one on 13 January with her debut album ""This Is the Life"", six months after the album's release. Swedish DJ Basshunter went to number one with his UK debut single ""Now You're Gone"". Britney Spears climbed to number two with ""Piece of Me"", while Lupe Fiasco debuted in the top ten on downloads alone with ""Superstar"". London band Scouting for Girls climbed to number one on 20 January with their eponymous debut album ""Scouting for Girls"", on the strength of the success of"
"further singles, ""Light of the World"" [#41, 1993], ""Breakaway"" [#56, 1993], and ""Free Spirit"" [#51, 1994]. A download-only single called ""High"" was released in 2007. Mel and Kim Mel and Kim were a British pop duo, consisting of sisters Melanie and Kim Appleby. Originally managed by Alan Whitehead, they achieved success between 1986 and 1988, before Melanie, who had been diagnosed with cancer, died in January 1990 at the age of 23. The duo reached number one in the UK Singles Chart with their 1987 single ""Respectable"", which also topped the US dance chart. They had three other UK Top"
"vocalists. On August 28, 2017, Melissa Bell died after suffering from kidney failure. The group appeared on Jools' Annual Hootenanny on New Year's Eve in 2017. Soul II Soul Soul II Soul are a British musical group formed in London in 1988. They are best known for their 1989 UK chart-topper and US top five hit ""Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)"", and ""Keep On Movin'"" which reached number five in the UK and number 11 in the US. They won two Grammy Awards, and have been nominated for five Brit Awards—twice for Best British Group. The group"
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"Girls"" (aka ""Delta Pi"", 1985) with Academy Awards winner Ruth Gordon, and the Australian film ""Backstage"". She sang on major national television and radio campaigns for products including Dr Pepper, Coca-Cola and Chrysler, which sponsored her 1985–1986 ""Hold Me"" tour. The year 1984 was the height of the European synthpop era, and ""Self Control"", the title track of Branigan's third album, released in April 1984 became her biggest hit internationally, topping the charts in over six countries, most notably West Germany, where it spent six weeks at No. 1. The original version. recorded a few months earlier in 1984 by"