The Cartridge Years: 1970, 1989 and 1992.
Richard turns back the clock with the local headlines and a hand-picked selection of hits from October 1970, 1989 and 1992.
This week Richard turns back the clock with the local headlines and a hand-picked selection of hits from October 1970, 1989 and 1992.
And in 鈥淭hree of the Kind鈥� he plays three from the noughties.
He highlights some of the lighter stories of the week that you may have missed, reviews some of the recent surveys and showbiz titbits. And Lena Samuels reviews another DVD.
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Cartridge Years - 1970
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Freda Payne
Band Of Gold
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Desmond Dekker
You Can Get It If You Really Want
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Bobby Bloom
Montego Bay
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The Hollies
Gasoline Alley Bred
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Elvis Presley
The Wonder Of You
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Diana Ross
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
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Clarence Carter
Patches
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George Ezra
Blame It On Me
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Carpenters
Solitaire
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Extreme
More Than Words
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Three of a Kind
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David Gray
Babylon
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KC and the Sunshine Band
That's The Way I Like It
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The Beatles
Can't Buy Me Love
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Cartridge Years - 1989
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Tina Turner
The Best
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Cher
If I Could Turn Back Time
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Billy Joel
We Didn't Start The Fire
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Black Box
Ride On Time
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Debbie Harry
I Want That Man
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Sydney Youngblood
If Only I Could
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The Beautiful South
You Keep It All In
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Andreya Triana
Playing With Fire
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The Cars
My Best Friend's Girl
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Simon & Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water
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Three of a Kind
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Jack Johnson
Good People
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George Benson
Give Me The Night
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Manf red Mann
Mighty Quinn
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Cartridge Years - 1992
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Lionel Richie
My Destiny
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Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson
The Best Things In Life Are Free
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Erma Franklin
(Take A Little) Piece Of My Heart
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Bob Marley
Iron Lion Zion
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Boyz II Men
End Of The Road
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Take That
A Million Love Songs
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Jon Secada
Just Another Day
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Daft Punk
Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)
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Eagles
Take It to the Limit
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Three of a Kind
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Mika
Grace Kelly
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Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
October 1970
- Edward Heath was Prime Minister
- Plans were put forward to make Hurn Airport the main airport for the south of England. 拢6 Million would be needed to upgrade the facilities to enable the airport to take the new jumbo jets.
- The liner France was headed for Southampton with an anti-hijack squad on board.
- There was a drugs raid in Cowes.
- Part of Frasers department store in Southampton collapsed.
- 70 tonnes of hay was destroyed in a fire at Corfe Mullen.
- Local Council workers were on strike, closing hundreds of schools. 聽 聽
- BP discovered a big oilfield in the North Sea.
- There was a riot in Milan as the Rolling Stones concert tickets went on sale.
- A Cashier was shot in the stomach during a bank raid in Banstead, Surrey.
- Municipal workers were on strike.
- There was a ceasefire in Egypt. 聽
- British Diplomat James Cross was kidnapped by Quebec separatists
- Paintings worth 拢100,000 were stolen from the home of a newspaper millionaire in Bedfordshire.
- Caledonian Airways took over British United to form Britain's second force independent airline.
- Two Russians who hijacked the plane were granted asylum in Turkey.
- There was an explosion at the Milford Haven Texaco refinery.
October 1989
- Poole Careers Exhibition took place.
- Local man Chris Coles invented the concept of a giant clock, suspended in space.
- A major scheme to control & manage large areas of Dorset heathland came under the scrutiny of the Minister of Agriculture.
- Colbourne Water Mill on the IOW was voted to have the best toilet facilities in a competition for tourism excellence.
- Protesters spent the day on the roof of Ryde Pavilion on the Isle of Wight in an effort to stop the workmen dismantling part of the structure - 聽the building later received listed building status.聽
- Workmen began demolishing a Victorian old people's home at Lee-On-Solent.聽
- Lecturers staged a mass protest outside Eastleigh College of Higher Education against a new timetable.
- Gas explosion caused damage to a home in Hythe.
- Sealink's Isle of Wight ferry services were at the centre of a multi-million dollar international takeover battle.
- Two southampton schools were targetted by arsonists.
- The first in a new generation of lifeboats was named at a ceremony in Poole.聽
- More than 120 Dorchester residents claimed compensation for the effects of the town's bypass, opened a year ago.聽
- Plans were unveiled for a holiday camp & leisure complex costing 拢30m to be built at Ower by the owners of Paultons.
- Chancellor Nigel Lawson resigned.
- Ambulance drivers were on strike.
- British Rail announced fare increases well above the rate of inflation.
- Three new members were elected to Labour's Shadow Cabinet in this year's election and all of them are women.
- West Midlands Police started recording interviews with criminal suspects on video.
- A rally was held in Trafalgar Square in protest against the proposed new rail links with the Channel Tunnel.聽
- The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived in Indonesia for a five-day tour.
- Australian Grand Prix was stopped and restarted following a first-lap collision. It was won by Thierry Boutsen driving for Williams-Renault.
- Thailand was hit by Typhoon Gay.
October 1993
- John Major was Prime Minister.
- A former Hampshire woman, was released from an Egyptian jail after serving 4 years of a 25 year sentence for drug smuggling.
- Members of the elite Special Boat Squadron made a direct appeal to Downing Street to try to save Portland Naval Base from closure.
- Plans to reprocess radioactive waste from around Britain at Winfrith in Dorset were discussed councillors.
- The water supply for nearly two hundred thousand people in South Hampshire & parts of the Isle of Wight was found to be contaminated.
- The Government gave the go ahead for the extension of the Jubilee Line.
- British Airways announced plans to take over Dan Air.
- Unions representing all three emergency services said that a new system for dealing with 999 calls could lead to long delays & put lives at risk.
- Britain was in recession. The government cut the base interest rate to 8%, the lowest since June 1988.聽
- Two baby elephants that were dying from starvation in Zambia were been saved by an airlift of powdered baby milk from Britain.
- George Bush & Bill Clinton were campaigning in the American presidential election.
- Magnus Pyke died.
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