The UK's Top 10 Best Selling Singles of 1982

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1. 1. Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
2. 2. Fame - Irene Cara
3. 3. Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
4. 4. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? -Culture Club
5. 5. The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Tight Fit
6. 6. Pass the Dutchie - Musical Youth
7. 7. I Don't Wanna Dance - Eddy Grant
8. 8. Seven Tears - Goombay Dance Band
9. 9. Ebony & Ivory - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder
10. 10. Town Called Malice/Precious - The Jam

1981: UK No.1 Singles and Artists

3 January "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma" - St Winifred's School Choir
10 January "Imagine" - John Lennon
7 February "Woman" - John Lennon
21 February "Shaddap You Face" - Joe Dolce Music Theatre
14 March "Jealous Guy" - Roxy Music
28 March "This Ole House" - Shakin' Stevens
18 April "Making Your Mind Up" - Bucks Fizz
9 May "Stand and Deliver" - Adam and the Ants
13 June "Being With You" - Smokey Robinson
27 June "One Day In Your Life" - Michael Jackson
11 July "Ghost Town" - The Specials
1 August "Green Door" - Shakin' Stevens
29 August "Japanese Boy" – Aneka
5 September "Tainted Love" - Soft Cell
19 September "Prince Charming" - Adam and the Ants
17 October "It's My Party" - Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin
14 November "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" - The Police
21 November "Under Pressure" - Queen and David Bowie
5 December "Begin the Beguine" - Julio Iglesias
12 December "Don't You Want Me" - The Human League

One Day in Your Life (Single)

Although Michael Jackson had long since moved on to Epic, Motown got a quick cash boost in the early '80s by issuing some tracks cut in 1975. "One Day in Your Life" is a song recorded by Michael Jackson for his 1975 album, Forever, Michael. This song written by Sam Brown and Armande. This title song even came close to making the R&B Top 40 and reached the middle of the pop charts. It was later released as a single in 1981 due to the strong buzz that generated from the sales of Jackson's hit 1979 album Off the Wall, even though Jackson released that album on a different label. While a modest U.S. hit, it was a bigger hit in the UK, where it became Jackson's first solo recording to hit #1 on the UK Singles Chart. It was number one in the UK for 2 weeks in June 1981, succeeding "Being with You" by Smokey Robinson. This song also featured strongly on the South African singles charts. It was released on the Motown label. It went on to become the 6th best-selling single of 1981 in the UK. In Australian Single Chart peak position #9, Dutch Single Chart #1, Irish Single Chart #1, UK Single Chart #1, US Billboard Hot 100 #55.


Here are The UK's Top 10 Best Selling Singles of 1981 :

1. 1. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
2. 2. Stand and Deliver - Adam and the Ants
3. 3. Prince Charming - Adam and the Ants
4. 4. This Ole House - Shakin' Stevens
5. 5. Vienna - Ultravox
6. 6. One Day in Your Life - Michael Jackson
7. 7. Shaddup You Face - Joe Dolce
8. 8. You Drive Me Crazy - Shakin' Stevens
9. 9. The Birdie Song - The Tweets
10. 10. You Drive Me Crazy - Shakin' Stevens

"One Day in Your Life" lyric

One day in your life
you'll remember a place
Someone touching your face
You'll come back and you'll look around you

One day in your life
You'll remember the love you found here
You'll remember me somehow
Though you don't need me now
I will stay in your heart
And when things fall apart
You'll remember one day

One day in your life
When you find that you're always waiting
For the love we used to share
Just call my name
And I'll be there

You'll remember me somehow
Though you don't need me now
I will stay in your heart
And when things fall apart
You'll remember one day

One day in your life
When you find that you're always longing
For the love we used to share
Just call my name
And I'll be there

B.V.S.M.P

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B.V.S.M.P. were a United States.hip hop group, formed in the 1980s. B.V.S.M.P. was short for Baby Virgo - Shocking Mister P, and the band consisted of Percy Nathan Rodgers, Calvin Williams and Frederick Eugene Byrd. B.V.S.M.P. are best remembered for the hit single "I Need You", which became a worldwide hit in the summer of 1988. It spent 12 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at Number 3 in July 1988. Goldie Lookin Chain's 2004 hit "You Knows I Loves You" is, in part, based around "I Need You", containing many of the same lyrics, for instance "I'm after your heart/Oh don't you see" (which on the B.V.S.M.P. original, concludes with "I'm not out to get your virginity", and on the Goldie Lookin' Chain version becomes "and your three kids doesn't bother me"), and "What's it gonna take to get your attention?" (which concludes with "You keep my mind hanging in suspension" on the original, and on the Goldie Lookin Chain version concludes with "track suit, gold chain and seven inch erection"). This group only have one studio album: The Best Belong Together (1988)

Thiller

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Thriller (Album), was released in November 1982. Thriller is the sixth studio album of Michael Jackson. The album was released on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall. Thriller explores similar genres to those of Off the Wall, including funk, disco, soul, R&B, and pop. Thriller's lyrics deal with themes including paranoia and the supernatural. Here is Thriller's lyrics:

It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight
You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl!
But all the while you hear the creature creeping up behind
You're out of time

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes, girl
Thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight

Night creatures calling, the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There's no escaping the jaws of the alien this time
(They're open wide)
This is the end of your life
They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side
They will possess you unless you change that number on your dial
Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen
I'll make you see

That this is thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a
Killer, diller, chiller, thriller here tonight

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller, ow!

(I'm gonna thrill ya tonight)
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'alls neighborhood

I'm gonna thrill ya tonight, ooh baby
I'm gonna thrill ya tonight, oh darlin'
Thriller night, baby, ooh!

The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom

And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller

Thriller became—and currently remains—the best-selling album of all time, with estimated sales between 70-110 million copies worldwide. Seven of the album's nine songs were released as singles, and all reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album won a record-breaking eight Grammy Awards at the 1984. It is the first record to reach #1 in the US and the UK at the same time. Thriller ranked number 20 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list in 2003, and was listed by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers at number three in its Definitive 200 Albums of All Time.

For the music video, Michael Jackson's Thriller is a 14-minute feature-length movie and a music video for the song of the same name released on December 2, 1983 and directed by John Landis, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Jackson. It was the most expensive video of its time, costing US$500,000, and Guinness World Records listed it in 2006 as the "most successful music video", selling over 9 million units. Often referred to as the greatest music video ever, Thriller proved to have a profound effect on popular culture, and was named "a watershed moment for the [music] industry" for its unprecedented merging of filmmaking and music. His fame was so ridiculous (and still is) that he could not go anywhere without being nearly killed by fans. His fans adoration was sacrilegious and delirious.