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1985: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 5: February 2, 1985)
King, Phil Collins, The Art Of Noise, Terry Hall and the Colour Field, and Kirsty MacColl makes a Billy Bragg tune a classic
In 1985, there was a Jack in the Box across the street from Monterey High School, in the parking lot in front of the Albertsons supermarket. I’ve always been puzzled by how this particular chain has managed to stay afloat all these decades, although my memory is that this location closed before I graduated and became a Burger King. Then I remember that I was weirdly addicted to their four-for-a-dollar tacos, which were literally just a corn tortilla filled with a smear of refried beans and something that might have been ground beef and then deep-fried. So I think it’s mostly just been generations of cheap high-school kids. Anyway, Foreigner’s “I Want To Know What Love Is” was number one for the third week. There were nine new entries, highest being “Personality” by Eugene Wilde at #49.
At #4, “Love and Pride” by King
This was the only song by King that I heard in 1985, and it only on the local college radio station, KTXT. King themselves were a band fronted by a singer named Paul King. They were one of those bands who talked a lot more about their Look than their music. The…
