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Radio X Chilled with Sarah Gosling 10pm - 1am
24 May 2024, 19:00
Let's turn back the clock to the year of Kate Bush, Buzzcocks, Bruce Springsteen, Kraftwerk and War Of The Worlds...
The debut album from the legendary singer-songwriter included her No 1 Wuthering Heights, The Man With The Child In His Eyes and Them Heavy People.
Smith's third album included the huge hit Because The Night, co-written with Bruce Springsteen.
The debut album from the pioneering Manchester punks included the single I Don't Mind.
Costello's second album - the follow-up to My Aim Is True from the previous year - included the hits Pump It Up and (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea.
Paul McCartney's sixth album with the supergroup that featured wife Linda and former Moody Blues man Denny Laine didn't include the massive-selling Mull Of Kintyre, but did feature the single With A Little Luck.
The third album from the Guildford punks included the single Nice 'N' Sleazy.
The seventh album from the German electronica pioneers included the song The Model, which topped the UK charts a whopping three years later. It also includes the live favourite The Robots.
The Boss's fourth studio album included the singles Badlands, Promised Land and Prove It All Night.
Phil Lynott and co presented one of the greatest live albums of all time, recorded on tour in London, Philadelphia and Toronto over the previous eighteen months. The hits Jailbreak, Don't Believe A Word and The Boys Are Back In Town are all present and correct.
The Boston new wave band's debut include the classics My Best Friend's Girl and Just What I Needed.
The Stones' fourteenth album saw them "go disco" with the hit Miss You, but there was still room for a classic ballad in Beast Of Burden.
The second album from Bob Geldof and co included a string of hits: She's So Modern, Like Clockwork and the No 1 Rat Trap.
"No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space... and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us." Ambitious musical retelling of the HG Wells story, featuring David Essex, Phil Lynott and Richard Burton, which sold tons of copies.
Howard Devoto formed Magazine after he left Buzzcocks and their debut album included the amazing tracks Shot By Both Sides and The Light Pours Out Of Me.
The NYC art rockers' second album includes the band's cover of Al Green's Take Me To The River.
The final Who album to feature drummer Keith Moon, who died three weeks after its release. The title track has gone on to be a radio classic.
The fourth album from the pioneering punks included I Just Want To Have Something To Do and I Wanna Be Sedated.
The all-time classic Blondie album was actually their third outing, but it spawned the hits Heart Of Glass, Hanging On The Telephone, One Way Or Another, Picture This and Sunday Girl.
After issuing Low and "Heroes" in '77, Bowie took a breather and issued this live double album of classic glam hits and the newer, more challenging "Berlin" material.
The debut album from Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland included Roxanne, Can't Stand Losing You and So Lonely.
The third album from Weller, Foxton and Buckler included the legendary Down In The Tube Station At Midnight.
The second album from Joe Strummer's punks included the hit Tommy Gun.
Queen's seventh studio album included the double 'A' side Fat Bottomed Girls/Bicycle Race and the evergreen Don't Stop Me Now.
This hugely-influential slab of post-punk was the band's debut album and included Overground and Metal Postcard.
A year after the Sex Pistols crashed and burned following the release of their only album Never Mind The Bollocks... frontman John Lydon returned with this uncompromising response. It included some songs originally intended for the Pistols and the single Public Image.