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Sounds like an enjoyable way to while away a late February weekend in a terrific city. I was playing the singles collection by Bowie the other week in the car. Having a 2021 Mazda means I get to drive a relatively new car with a CD player. So many awesome 70s singles that never made the top 10, like Heroes and Young Americans.
More astonishingly, Changes failed to even chart in the UK when it was released as a single in the early 70s. Radio 1 apparently played it a lot, particularly Tony Blackburn. It's like Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams only making 42. The Waitresses get played a lot at this time of the year, but their Christmas Wrapping song failed to make the top 40 in 1982. The singles chart can be funny like that.
Rats-wise, I always feel they were shortchanged by the chart positions of the Elephants Graveyard, Drag me Down, Never in a Million Years and Dave.
More astonishingly, Changes failed to even chart in the UK when it was released as a single in the early 70s.
Rats-wise, I always feel they were shortchanged by the chart positions of the Elephants Graveyard, Drag me Down, Never in a Million Years and Dave.
Heroes peaked at #24 in UK. Yet it is certified platinum in UK.
Dave was a consequence of the picture disc not being considered. With a bit of good fortune it could have troubled the top 40. Elephant's Graveyard (Guilty) was a surprise at the time, however in retrospect, things had moved on and the Rats weren't as popular. Contemporaries like The Stranglers and The Damned did re-invent and had a second chart life, but it eluded the Rats.
More astonishingly, Changes failed to even chart in the UK when it was released as a single in the early 70s.
Rats-wise, I always feel they were shortchanged by the chart positions of the Elephants Graveyard, Drag me Down, Never in a Million Years and Dave.
Heroes peaked at #24 in UK. Yet it is certified platinum in UK.
Dave was a consequence of the picture disc not being considered. With a bit of good fortune it could have troubled the top 40. Elephant's Graveyard (Guilty) was a surprise at the time, however in retrospect, things had moved on and the Rats weren't as popular. Contemporaries like The Stranglers and The Damned did re-invent and had a second chart life, but it eluded the Rats.
I remember Graveyard had leapt from 40 to 26, but at neither juncture had it secured a TOTP performance, usually very helpful in those days to an ascending single's ultimate peak destination. A piece of bad fortune for the Rats as the next week it had slipped to 27 and was ineligible for a TOTP outing. It seemed to stun the Rats into no third single from Mondo Bongo, as they grappled with what to do after it had become their least successful single since 1977.
