This week in 1980
1 Going Underground/Dreams of Children The Jam 2 Together We Are Beautiful Fern Kinney 3 Take That Look Off Your Face Marti Webb 4 Turning Japanese The Vapors 5 Dance Yourself Dizzy Liquid Gold 6 Games Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel 7 Atomic Blondie 8 Working My Way Back To You/ Forgive Me Girl Detroit Spinners 9 All Night Long Rainbow 10 Do That To Me One More Time The Captain and Tennille
Neither ‘Going Underground’ nor ‘Dreams Of Children’ featured on any of The Jam’s six studio albums. ‘Dreams Of Children’ was to have been the A side of the band’s first single of 1980, but a mistake in the pressing plant meant the release was released as a double-A side instead. As DJs and TV producers favoured ‘Going Underground’, that’s the song considered to have propelled The Jam to the UK number one spot for the first time. They would go on to score three more No. 1 hits before Paul Weller’s surprise announcement of his intention to disband The Jam at the end of