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1985: The Week In Top 40 Hits (Week 6: February 9, 1985)
The Commodores, Kool and the Gang, Bronski Beat, Heaven 17, and David Bowie’s last good single of the ‘80s
One thing I learned about Monterey High School this year is that students here took Valentine’s Day much more seriously than they had at any other school I had ever been to. In particular, it was really common for the girls of the school to decorate the lockers not only of boys they liked, but of basically anyone who had loaned them a pencil or given them a stick of gum. I mean, my locker got decorated and I had barely been at this school for a month. In particular, whoever had decorated it — I never did find out exactly who, but I assume it was someone in my drama class — stuck a pin into my locker vent that was a photo of a red brick wall with a heart spray-painted on it. I took it off and stuck it onto the collar of my jacket, next to a pin of the cover of Aladdin Sane. I think it was still there when I put that jacket in a Goodwill box when I was college, and may still be in a box somewhere in our basement. Anyway, Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson’s “I Know Him So Well” (from the Tim Rice/guys from ABBA musical Chess) knocked off Foreigner’s “I Want To Know What Love Is” after three weeks. There were 14 new chart entries, the highest being “Things Can Only Get Better”…
