Disco-beating classics
The chart-storming single Though you can find the Hooked on Classics albums on several streaming services today, the fiveminute opening track ‘Hooked on Classics Parts 1 & 2’ isn’t precisely what Radio 1 listeners would have heard storming the pop charts in 1981 (or while watching Legs & Co do their moves on Top of the Pops). The album track includes snatches of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Bach’s Toccata in D minor, Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik and Rossini’s William Tell overture; however, the original single’s side-a line-up was, in rapid succession, as follows: Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1 Rimsky-korsakov
Flight of the Bumblebee Mozart Symphony No. 40 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Sibelius Karelia Suite
Mozart ‘Voi che sapete’ from The Marriage of Figaro Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet
Clarke Prince of Denmark’s March (‘Trumpet Voluntary’) Handel Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah
Grieg Piano Concerto
Bizet Carmen Overture Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (a very brief snatch!)