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'Now! That's what I call 1985'

By pure luck, my, still to this day, all time most listened to album was released in 1985. The hugely underrated Working Week, 'Working Nights'.

Amen to that. The version on The Last Waltz is magnificent. Love the way Levon pushes it so hard on drums without ever overcooking it.

I love both versions - even the full Donna Summer Suite. So OTT and camp it is glorious!

My London Borough did noticeably worse - Tommy Steele, Max Bygraves, Souixse Sioux, Florence Welch and Charlie Chaplin (who wrote Nat King Cole's hit Smile). We also had the Richardsons and Mad Frankie Fraser.

Sounds pretty good for a town that size. It also has/had a pretty big jazz festival.

Big fan of Peter, not a fan at all of Metallica. But delighted that the guitar gets used by someone who obviously loves and respects its past.

Well I like that. Still making good music 60+ years on, still instantly recognisable - I think that's a phenomenal achievement.

Interesting take. I'm firmly in the "show must go on" camp and would be surprised if Charlie would have wanted them to pause to grieve. I played a gig knowing my mum was going to die that night in the full knowledge that she would have been furious with me if I hadn't.

Church Village has 1000 more and CVC - Church Village Collective who are starting to get noticed.

You're putting down a town that brought to the world...Paper Lace 🤔

Did like the Pale Saints back in the day. Very classy pop music.

That's a healthy local scene over the years.

Just looked through the list. A lot of big names in there, and I didn't realise Nik Kershaw was born in Bristol. Not something the good folks of Ipswich would want you to know!

No problem with a bit of pedantry! And yes, Sheffield seems to be out there.

That is literally where the phrase Old Grey Whistle Test comes from.

Not bad for a publisher's demo!

Frank Ifield - now I didn't know he was from Coventry!

Problem with these places (and Nashville) is knowing which bands are local. Then taking per capita into account I don't think they would rank so highly.

I'm not making any rules and would say this is a good call.

That eBay bloke in Germany probably has it.

Following @Barking Spiders Norway thread, which towns/cities have been most productive with local talent? I'm going for Sheffield, but per capita, again, some of the Scottish towns can stake a claim with Dunfermline (55,000) leading the charge with Nazareth, Skids/Big Country, Ian Anderson and Barbara Dickson. Where else has grown more than its fair share of talent?

I only knew of his sax playing for many years! Much later when I found out he was the bass player too.

What an amazing band performance!

To me this is one of the most astonishing statements I have ever seen in a discussion about music, that S&G's version is a bit overproduced in comparison to the Disturbed version. Previously I would have strongly argued as to how wrong you are. However, I recently sat through a presentation at the sound production department of the uni my son is off to. The lecturer played us a track before and after his post grad students had got their hands on it. I couldn't believe that everyone else in the room preferred the new version which I hated to the same level that I hate Disturbed's SoS. I'm sure age has a lot to do with it, but it just goes to show that there is no right or wrong, and that it's all down to how we hear things.