This week in 1991 Michael Jackson’s Black or White music video debuted on various music channels. It landed Michael in hot water with some viewers who complained about his excessive crotch-grabbing and gratuitous displays of violence. The controversy only made the clip more popular and it became the most requested and most played video on MTV.
Billy Idol’s new EP, The Cage, was released in September and the 66 year old appears to be full of energy and at the top of his game as already evidenced by the EP’s title track. Now the second single demonstrates once again that “Idol” is as vital as ever. Running From The Ghost is new this week on RadiJohan.
Dan McCafferty, the former lead singer of Scottish hard rock band “Nazareth,” has died aged 76. McCafferty co-founded Nazareth in 1968. The group’s best known album, Hair Of The Dog, their sixth album, was released in 1975 and included the rock classic Love Hurts which topped the charts in Canada, South Africa and The Netherlands.
Norwegian band “a-ha” formed in 1982. They achieved their biggest success with their debut album Hunting High and Low in 1985 which yielded two international number-one singles: Take On Me and The Sun Always Shines on T.V. More chart topping singles followed in their native Norway with reasonable success elsewhere, particularly in Europe. True North, their eleventh studio album, has just been released and the single, I’m In, is new this week on RadiJohan.
| TW | LW | Artist | Title |
| 10 | New | Richard Marx | Same Heartbreak Different Day |
| 9 | New | Queensrÿche | Forest |
| 8 | New | KT Tunstall | Private Eyes |
| 7 | 10 | Alan Parsons,James Durbin,Joe Bonamassa | Give ’em My Love |
| 6 | 8 | Suede | She Still Leads Me On |
| 5 | 1 | Ilse DeLange | Willing |
| 4 | 5 | Ingrid Andress | Pain |
| 3 | 4 | The Struts | Fallin’ With Me |
| 2 | 2 | The Night Flight Orchestra | Black Stars and Diamonds |
| 1 | 3 | The Head and The Heart | Hurts (But it Goes Away) |
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On the 6th of November 1982 the “Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes” song Up Where We Belong, from the movie An Officer And A Gentleman, went to number 1 in America. It also topped the charts in Canada and South Africa.
David Paich is best known as the co-founder, principal songwriter, keyboardist and singer of the rock band Toto. He wrote or co-wrote many of Toto’s songs including three of the band’s most popular songs: Hold the Line, Rosanna and Africa. This year Paich released his debut solo album, Forgotten Toys. The single, willibelongtoyou, for some reason not capitalized on the album’s cover and written as one word without spaces, is new this week on RadiJohan.
Scottish Rockers “Simple Minds” formed 45 years ago and have just released their 18th studio album. The band had a string of hit singles in the Eighties including Don’t You forget About Me, Alive and Kicking and Belfast Child. The new album, Direction of the Heart, has been receiving many positive reviews with suggestion it is one of Simple Minds’ best. The single Solstice Kiss is new this week on RadiJohan.
On 2 November 1978 “The Police” released their debut album. The working title for the album had been “Police Brutality” but it was changed to Outlandos d’Amour to make it sound more romantic. The album initially performed poorly due to low exposure and an unfavourable reaction from the “BBC” to its first two singles, Roxanne and Can’t Stand Losing You, owing to their subject matters, prostitution and suicide. However the international success of Roxanne led to a re-release of the single in the UK almost making the top 10. A subsequent re-release of Can’t Stand Losing You nearly topped the chart. It stranded at number 2 thanks to I Don’t Like Mondays by the “Boomtown Rats.”
| TW | LW | Artist | Title |
| 10 | New | Alan Parsons, James Durbin, Joe Bonamassa | Give ’em My Love |
| 9 | 9 | Madison Cunningham | Life According to Racheal |
| 8 | 10 | Suede | She Still Leads Me On |
| 7 | 7 | Collective Soul | All Our pieces |
| 6 | 3 | Tuk Smith and The Restless Hearts | Ballad of a Misspent Youth |
| 5 | 8 | Ingrid Andress | Pain |
| 4 | 4 | The Struts | Fallin’ With Me |
| 3 | 5 | The Head and The Heart | Hurts (But it Goes Away) |
| 2 | 2 | The Night Flight Orchestra | Black Stars and Diamonds |
| 1 | 1 | Ilse DeLange | Willing |
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