1979 in British music
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This is a summary of 1979 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. 1979 saw the beginning of a few trends in British music. The start of the New Romantic movement and synthesiser bands began to gather momentum (although both these trends had to wait for the eighties for real growth) and the first rap hit in the UK for the Sugar Hill Gang. The 2 Tone movement also emerged with early work from bands like The Specials and Madness.
[edit] 1979
- Village People - "Y.M.C.A."
- January 6 for 3 weeks
- Ian Dury & The Blockheads - "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick"
- January 27 for 1 week
- Blondie - "Heart of Glass"
- February 3 for 4 weeks
- Bee Gees - "Tragedy"
- March 3 for 2 weeks
- Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive"
- March 17 for 4 weeks
- Art Garfunkel - "Bright Eyes"
- April 14 for 6 weeks
- Blondie - "Sunday Girl"
- May 26 for 3 weeks
- Anita Ward - "Ring My Bell"
- June 16 for 2 weeks
- Tubeway Army (Gary Numan) - "Are 'Friends' Electric"
- June 30 for 4 weeks
- Boomtown Rats - "I Don't Like Mondays"
- July 28 for 4 weeks
- Cliff Richard - "We Don't Talk Anymore"
- August 25 for 4 weeks
- Gary Numan - "Cars"
- September 22 for 1 week
- Police - "Message In A Bottle"
- September 29 for 3 weeks
- Buggles - "Video Killed The Radio Star"
- October 20 for 1 week
- Lena Martell - "One Day At A Time"
- October 27 for 3 weeks
- Dr Hook - "When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman"
- November 17 for 3 week
- Police - "Walking on the Moon"
- December 8 for 1 week
- Pink Floyd - "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II"
- December 15 for 5 weeks
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