This week in 1977
1 Knowing Me, Knowing You Abba 2 Red Light Spells Danger Billy Ocean 3 I Don’t Want To Put A Hold On You Berni Flint 4 Free Deniece Williams 5 Going In With My Eyes Open David Soul 6 When Showaddywaddy 7 Have I The Right Dead End Kids 8 Sunny Boney M 9 Sir Duke Stevie Wonder 10 You Don’t Have To Be A Star Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Forty years ago, Abba’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ spent five weeks in the UK chart before making it to number one. When it did reach the top in early April 1977, it was the start of a five-week run at No. 1. The track was one of Abba’s biggest hits and the biggest selling single in the UK in 1977. It spent 10 weeks in the Irish charts, peaking at number one here. It was the Swedish group’s fifth UK and Ireland chart topper since winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, with ‘Waterloo’. They would go on to score seven more number ones in Ireland, and a futher four in the UK.