In 1978 who had their first UK Top Ten Hit with the song 'What A Waste'?
"Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"" is a song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, first released as a single on Stiff Records in the UK on 23 November 1978. Written by Dury and the Blockheads' multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel, it is the group's most successful single, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart in January 1979 as well as reaching the top three in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and it was also a top 20 hit in several European countries. ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"" was named the 12th best single"
"the band started performing as Ian Dury & the Blockheads, when the band signed on for the Stiff ""Live Stiffs Tour"" alongside Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric and Larry Wallis. The tour was a success, and Stiff launched a concerted Ian Dury marketing campaign, resulting in the Top Ten hit ""What a Waste"", and the hit single ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"", which reached No. 1 in the UK at the beginning of 1979, selling just short of a million copies. Again, ""Hit Me"" was not included on the original release of the subsequent album"
"""New Boots and Panties!!"" which, although it did not include the single, achieved platinum status. In October 1977 Dury and his band started performing as Ian Dury & the Blockheads, when the band signed on for the Stiff ""Live Stiffs Tour"" alongside Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric, and Larry Wallis. The tour was a success, and Stiff launched a concerted Ian Dury marketing campaign, resulting in the Top Ten hit ""What a Waste"", and the hit single ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"", which reached No. 1 in the UK at the beginning of 1979, selling"
"1978 on the band's live EP ""Rising Free"". The EP reached #18 on the UK Singles Chart within a week of its release, after the band's initial success with the single ""2-4-6-8 Motorway"", which peaked at #5. At that time, EPs were also eligible to chart on the OCC singles chart. Although ""Glad to Be Gay"" became the most popular track from the EP, BBC Radio 1 refused to broadcast the song on its Top 40 Chart Show, choosing the less controversial opening track ""Don't Take No for an Answer"" instead. Even though the Chart Show wouldn't play it, John"
"The Blockheads discography Formed in 1977 to promote Ian Durys' album ""New Boots and Panties!!"" on the first Stiff Records tour of the UK, Chaz Jankel, Norman Watt-Roy, Charlie Charles, John Turnbull and Mick Gallagher became known as 'The Blockheads' (a reference to a song on Dury's album). As 'Ian Dury & The Blockheads' they went back out on tour, this time without Jankel, and in 1978 released ""What a Waste""/""Wake Up and Make Love with Me"" a single that reached number five in the U.K. charts. They were then joined by saxophonist Davey Payne and toured the U.S.A supporting"
"the song re-recorded by the band but the version from ""New Boots and Panties!!"" which is not a Blockheads album (although some of the band do play on it). ""What a Waste"", however, is a Blockheads track. On their eponymous album from 1998, English indie rock band, theaudience quote the song in the chorus of 'Running Out Of Space': ""It's high time for summer and for honesty / when you're drunk you will sing 'What A Waste'"" followed by a short phrase on keyboards based on the chorus guitar riff. The song was ranked at No. 3 among the top"
"the UK in 1978, and after failing to renew their contract with Magnet Records, they concentrated on their success in Holland, where they continued having hits for the next few years. In late 1978, the group performed as the opening act for Frank Sinatra for a series of London concerts. In 1979, the group took part in the contest, hoping to represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song ""How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?"" Although the show was abandoned due to a BBC strike, the song finished in tenth place of the 12 entries when"
"in May 1978, but it did not chart at the time. Following its re-issue in January 1979, the song entered the American music pop chart. Unusually, the success of this single release came more than six months after the relatively unheralded release of the band's debut album in October 1978. BBC Radio was initially unwilling to play the song due to its high lyrical content but after it became a U.S. hit, their line softened. The song reached the top 10 in both the UK and the U.S., reaching No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 4 on"
"to a Who-influenced hard rock style supplemented by a striking use of high-pitched backing vocals. The band first achieved success in the UK charts, with thirteen Top 20 hits during the 1970s alone, with ""Block Buster!"" (1973) topping the chart, followed by three consecutive number two hits in ""Hell Raiser"" (1973), ""The Ballroom Blitz"" (1973) and ""Teenage Rampage"" (1974). The band turned to a more hard rock style with their mid-career singles, like 1974's ""Turn It Down"". ""Fox on the Run"" (1975) also reached number two on the UK charts. These results were topped in West Germany and other countries"
"of ""Dum"" (""Mud"" spelt backwards), but it failed to chart. After the success with ""Lonely This Christmas"", they cracked the Valentine's Day market with ""The Secrets That You Keep"", which reached No. 3 in February 1975. Around this time Mud wound up their contract with Rak releasing three further singles, ""Oh Boy"" (their third and final UK No. 1), ""Moonshine Sally"" (No. 10) and ""One Night"" (No. 32). Mud also split from Chinn and Chapman in mid-1975 and signed to Private Stock (licensed to Philips in Continental Europe). There they enjoyed three more British Top 20 hits within seven months:"
"reached number 2. In 1976, they released their first album, ""Real Thing"", which included both of their hit singles as well as a third UK hit, ""You'll Never Know What You're Missing"", which peaked at No. 16. They continued recording prolifically, releasing a steady stream of subsequent albums: 1977's ""Four from Eight"" (originally to have been called ""Liverpool 8"" in honour of the racially mixed, economically depressed neighbourhood in which they grew up, before Pye rejected the title), 1978's ""Step Into Our World"", (reissued in 1979 as ""Can You Feel the Force"") and 1982's compilation ""100 Minutes"". During the time"
""""" in 1976 with the song ""Wake Up"". They came second, being beaten by (eventual Eurovision winners) Brotherhood of Man by two points. The group continued to perform together and in 1978, they entered ""A Song for Europe"" again with ""The Bad Old Days"". This time they won and went on to perform for the UK in Paris. The song managed 11th place - the lowest placing by a UK entry up to that point. The song became a hit single, reaching 13 in the UK Singles Chart. On the back of this, the group released their first (and only)"
"Wham! Wham! were an English pop duo consisting of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, formed in London in 1981. Influenced by funk and soul music and presenting themselves as disaffected youth, Wham's 1983 debut album ""Fantastic"" addressed the United Kingdom's unemployment problem for young people and teen angst over adulthood. Their second studio album ""Make It Big"" in 1984 was a worldwide pop smash hit, charting number one in both the UK and the United States. The singles from the album — ""Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"", ""Everything She Wants"" and ""Careless Whisper"" — all topped the Billboard Hot"
"top ten, producers Stock Aitken Waterman obtained an injunction against the record due to the unauthorized use of a sample from their hit single ""Roadblock"". The dispute was settled out of court, with the injunction being lifted in return for an undertaking that overseas releases would not contain the ""Roadblock"" sample, and the disc went on to top the UK singles chart. The sample in question had been so distorted as to be virtually unrecognizable, and SAW didn't realize their record had been used until they heard co-producer Dave Dorrell mention it in a radio interview. In 1987, The JAMs"
"in the UK and was the first of seven top twenty hits. The others, with Bernie Nolan usually singing lead vocals, were ""Don't Make Waves"", (1980) ""Gotta Pull Myself Together"" (1980), ""Who's Gonna Rock You"" (1980), ""Attention to Me"" (1981), ""Chemistry"" (1981) and ""Don't Love Me Too Hard"" (1982). The Nolans sold millions of recordings worldwide, particularly in Japan where they sold over nine million albums and won the 1981 Tokyo Music Festival with the song ""Sexy Music"". Bernie also composed songs during this time, when she wrote two tracks for their 1982 album ""Portrait"". In 1991, they won of"
"Wasteland (10 Years song) ""Wasteland"" is a single released by alternative metal band 10 Years in 2005. It is their debut single from their first major release, ""The Autumn Effect"". The song reached number one on the ""Billboard"" Alternative Songs chart in February 2006 during its twenty-seventh week on the chart, making it one of the slowest-rising number-one singles in the chart's history. It also spent an unprecedented ten weeks at the number two position on the ""Billboard"" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In December 2017, the RIAA gave ""Wasteland"" a gold certification for selling 500,000 copies. The song was originally"
"song reminded them of the Queen song. Another One Bites the Dust ""Another One Bites the Dust"" is a 1980 song by British rock band Queen. Written by bass guitarist John Deacon, the song featured on the group's eighth studio album ""The Game"" (1980). The song was a worldwide hit, charting number one on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for three weeks, from 4 October to 18 October (their second number-one single in the country). The song spent fifteen weeks in the ""Billboard"" top ten (the longest running top ten song of 1980), including thirteen weeks in the top five,"
"10 of the UK Albums Chart. In 1999, it received another outing, in the soundtrack of the film, ""East is East"". A follow-up single, ""Malt and Barley Blues"", was a UK No.5 hit in 1971, but the group floundered under the pressures of instant success, being required to record a second album and reproduce their recorded sound adequately on stage, which resulted in disappointing concerts, then a series of illnesses among the band members cancelled most of the concerts on their first tour. According to McGuinness, at this time the band consisted of two groups of close-knit friends, the first"
"June 1988 with ""Wow!"" (1987), and earned Brit Award nominations for Best British Single for ""Love in the First Degree"", and Best Music Video for their 1988 hit cover of The Supremes single ""Nathan Jones"". Fahey left the group in 1988 and formed Shakespears Sister, best known for the UK number one ""Stay"" (1992). She was replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan. This line-up had UK top five hits with ""I Want You Back"" (1988) and The Beatles track ""Help!"" (1989), recorded with comedy duo French and Saunders for the charity Comic Relief. In 1989 they embarked on their first world tour."
"2010; he had cancer for eight years previously. The Mudlarks The Mudlarks were an English pop vocal group of the late 1950s and early 1960s. They had two Top 10 UK hit singles in 1958. The Mudlarks were a family group from Luton, Bedfordshire, originally comprising Jeff Mudd (born 1935), Fred Mudd (1937–2007), and Mary Mudd (born 1939). According to press releases at the time, they all had jobs at the Vauxhall motor plant in Luton, and spent their spare time singing together. In 1958, they attracted the attention of BBC Radio music presenter David Jacobs, who won them an"
"the 2007 promotional live compilation ""The Best of 10cc Live"". The Wall Street Shuffle ""The Wall Street Shuffle"" is a single by the British pop/rock band 10cc released in 1974. The song originally appears on the band's 1974 album ""Sheet Music"". It was the most successful single to be released from the album, reaching No. 10 on the UK chart. The song features a classic rock riff and lyrics that deal with Wall Street and the economy. It features several topical cultural references and specifically mentions Getty, Rothschild and Howard Hughes. The song remains popular with fans and is often"
"16 November 1997, and peaked at number 14 in its eighth week on 10 January 1998. It spent a further nine weeks on the chart from January through to March, and re-entered the chart for one week at number 100 on 18 April 1998. Altogether, ""5,6,7,8"" spent 18 non-consecutive weeks on the UK Singles Chart, 10 of which were in the top 20. Their first top 40 hit, ""5,6,7,8"" was the only song of their following fourteen singles (prior to their split in 2001) not to chart within the top 10. It is Steps third-highest selling song in their career"
"the UK in 1980, was the first of ten UK top 10 hits, including a No. 1 single ""True"", a No. 2 single ""Gold"", and two No. 3 singles: ""Chant No. 1"" and ""Only When You Leave"". The band have had eight UK top 10 albums, including three greatest hits compilations and an album of re-recorded material. After achieving the height of their popularity with the 1983 album ""True"", in 1984 they received the Brit Award for technical excellence and were involved in Band Aid, and in 1985 they performed at Live Aid. The band split in 1990 and the"
"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"
"Their first single ""5, 6, 7, 8"" was a techno line dance song. Though not typical of what became their style, it was their first hit both in the UK and internationally. Despite only peaking at number 14, the single achieved considerable longevity in the fast-paced singles climate of 1997-1998, racking up over four months on the UK chart. The track remains one of the highest selling singles never to reach the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart. Its release in Australia gave the group their first number one in 1998. Tim Byrne then founded a management & production"
"and only single released by British band The Go-Go's. The song was released in December 1964 and distributed through Oriole Records, but did not make the UK Singles Chart. The first single about the show to make the UK Singles Chart was ""Dr. Who"" by Mankind. The track was based on the ""Doctor Who"" theme music in a disco style and was Mankind's first and only charting single(follow up 'Chain Reaction'was a flop). Released by Pinnacle in 1978, the song peaked at Number 25 in the UK Singles Chart. In 1985, charity ensemble Who Cares? released a single protesting at"
"Jack Woolley. The Buggles The Buggles are an English new wave band formed in London, England in 1977 by singer and bassist Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoffrey Downes. They are best known for their 1979 debut single ""Video Killed the Radio Star"" that topped the UK Singles Chart and reached number one in 15 other countries. The duo released their first album, ""The Age of Plastic"", in January 1980 with ""Video Killed the Radio Star"" as its lead single. Soon after the album's release, Horn and Downes joined the progressive rock band Yes, recording and releasing ""Drama"" in the process."
"Terry Edwards or Dave Lewis and from time to time, the original sax player, Davey Payne. The band are best known for their hit singles, recorded with Dury, ""What a Waste"", ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"", ""Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3"", and ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"". In 1974 Radio Caroline's Ronan O'Rahilly set up the pop group The Loving Awareness Band, comprising John Turnbull (guitar) and Mick Gallagher (keyboards) both formerly of 1960s psychedelic rock band Skip Bifferty with the session musicians Norman Watt-Roy (bass) and Charlie Charles (born Hugh Glenn Mortimer Charles, Guyana 1945)"
"also helped to popularise the music video. The band's 1977 album ""News of the World"" contained ""We Will Rock You"" and ""We Are the Champions"", which have become anthems at sporting events. By the early 1980s, Queen were one of the biggest stadium rock bands in the world. ""Another One Bites the Dust"" (1980) became their best-selling single, while their 1981 compilation album ""Greatest Hits"" is the best-selling album in the UK and is certified eight times platinum in the US. Their performance at the 1985 Live Aid concert has been ranked among the greatest in rock history by various"
"group's first single to break the charts, and has held a spot in their live sets ever since it was written. The photography on the controversial cover was by Peter Gravelle. The original single capped at number 42 in late 1978, but the June 1979 reissue nearly topped the UK Singles charts, held off only by ""I Don't Like Mondays"" by The Boomtown Rats. ""Can't Stand Losing You"" also appeared on the UK singles charts in 1980, as part of the ""Six Pack"" singles compilation set. The package (consisting of six 7"" vinyl singles) peaked at number 17 on the"
"the UK's Punk rock explosion. The band's 1977 album ""Whatever Happened to Slade"" proved a commercial failure while their tour that spring had shown that they could no longer fill large venues. Although their April 1977 single ""Burning in the Heat of Love"" also failed to chart, the band returned to the Top 40 with ""My Baby Left Me"". Released in November 1977, it reached No. 32 and would be the band's last Top 40 single until 1981's ""We'll Bring the House Down"". ""My Baby Left Me"" was recorded in August at Advision Studios in London. The band decided to"
"chart success, totalling five Top Ten hits between 1977 and 1982. One of them, ""Use It Up and Wear It Out"", reached number one in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in 1980. The UK follow-up single, ""If You're Lookin' for a Way Out"" had Lillian Lopez on lead vocals; the single reaching no. 6 in 1980 and spending a total of fifteen weeks in the UK chart. Odyssey thus became the third US act of the year (after Fern Kinney and M.A.S.H.) to reach number one in the UK despite not charting in their home country. Their later"
"to number 8 in the UK Singles Chart on its original release in 1984. The band also released one EP, ""The Bluebells,"" and one full-length album, ""Sisters"". The band split up in the mid 1980s, but enjoyed an unexpected revival in 1993 when ""Young at Heart"" was used in a Volkswagen television advertisement. Re-issued as a single, it was number one for four weeks and led to the band reforming temporarily to perform the song on BBC Television's ""Top of the Pops"". A compilation album followed, ""The Singles Collection"", which peaked at No. 27 in the UK Albums Chart in"