Pop Music: Charts (etc.)

Pop charts first published in the UK			1952 (14 Nov)
The first ever UK No. 1	Title		Here In My Heart
	Artist		Al Martino
Had three songs in the UK's first ever Top 10			Vera Lynn

Last No. 1s of the Decades

Strictly speaking, each of the following is also the first No. 1 of the new decade (since the new chart is not announced at midnight on New Year's Eve); but if you're asked this, the required answer is usually the first record to reach No. 1 in the decade concerned. For these answers, please refer to the next sub–section.

1950s	What do you want to make those eyes at me for?		Emil Ford & the Checkmates
1960s	Two Little Boys		Rolf Harris
1970s	Another Brick in the Wall		Pink Floyd
1980s	Do They Know it's Christmas?		Band Aid
1990s	I Have a Dream / Seasons in the Sun		Westlife
2000s	Killing in the Name		Rage Against the Machine

First New No. 1s of the Decades

1960s	Starry Eyed		Michael Holliday
1970s	Love Grows (where my Rosemary Goes)		Edison Lighthouse
1980s	Brass in Pocket		Pretenders
1990s	Hangin' Tough		New Kids on the Block
2000s	The Masses Against the Classes		Manic Street Preachers
2010s	The Climb		Joe McElderry

No. 1s by Artist

Abba	First UK single (before Waterloo – did nothing)			Ring Ring
	Won Eurovision with Waterloo			1974
	5th UK single and 2nd No. 1 (1975)			Mamma Mia
	19th UK single, 9th and last UK No. 1 (1980)			Super Trouper
	25th and last UK single (not counting re–releases) (1983)			Thank You for the Music
	Only US No. 1			Dancing Queen
Blur	Their twelfth single, the first from their fourth album (The Great Escape), and the first of their two UK No. 1 singles (up to and including 2020)			Country House
	The first single from their self–titled fifth album, and the second of their two UK No. 1 singles (up to and including 2020)			Beetlebum
David Bowie	Video banned by the BBC (1983)			China Girl
Eddie Cochran	First UK hit (1958)			Summertime Blues
	First UK top ten hit (1959)			C'mon Everybody
	Only UK No. 1 (1960)			Three Steps to Heaven
Bryan Ferry	Biggest hit without Roxy Music (No. 4, 1976)			Let's Stick Together
Four Tops	Only UK No. 1 (1966)			Reach Out I'll Be There
Gloria Gaynor	Only UK No. 1 (1989)			I Will Survive
	Only other UK Top Ten hit (1974)			Never Can Say Goodbye
Elton John	First UK solo No. 1 (1990)			Sacrifice / Healing hands
Herman's Hermits	First hit and only UK No. 1 (1964)			I'm Into Something Good
Human League	Only UK No. 1 (1981)			Don't You Want Me
Tom Jones	First single, and first UK No. 1 (1965)			It's Not Unusual
	Second and last UK No. 1, and only UK million seller (1966)			Green, Green Grass of Home
Jerry Lee Lewis	Only UK No. 1 (charted Dec 1957, No. 1 Jan 1958)			Great Balls of Fire
Madness	Only UK No. 1 (1982)			House of Fun
George Michael	First solo single, and the first of seven UK No. 1s (1984)			Careless Whisper
Moody Blues	Their second single, and their only UK No. 1 (1964)			Go Now!
The Move	Their 5th Top Ten hit, but their only UK No. 1 (entering the charts on Christmas Day 1968)			Blackberry Way
Oasis	Their sixth single, the first from their second album (What's the Story, Morning Glory?), and the first of their eight UK No. 1 singles (up to and including 2020			Some Might Say
Sinead O'Connor	Only UK No. 1 (1990)			Nothing Compares 2 U
The Osmonds	Their only UK No. 1 as a group (1974)			Love Me For a Reason
Pink Floyd	Third UK hit (after Arnold Layne and See Emily Play), and only UK No. 1 (1979 Christmas No. 1 – 5 weeks)			Another Brick in the Wall
Elvis Presley	First UK hit (No. 2 – No. 1 in US)			Heartbreak Hotel
	First UK No. 1			All Shook Up
	Achieved a gold disc on advance orders (1956) of			Love Me Tender
	Last UK No. 1 in his lifetime (1970)			The Wonder of You
	Last single release in his lifetime			Way Down
	The 1000th UK No. 1 (January 2005)			I Got Stung / One Night
	Category in which he won three Grammy awards (1968, 1973, 1975)			Gospel – "Best Inspirational Performance"
Cliff Richard	First hit (1958)			Move It
	First UK No. 1 (1959)			Livin' Doll
	13th UK No. 1, and only one of the 90s (Xmas 1990)			Saviour's Day
Small Faces	Their only UK No. 1 (1966 – their fifth single)			All or Nothing
Smokey Robinson	Only UK No. 1 with the Miracles (1970)			The Tears of a Clown
	Only UK solo No. 1 (1981)			Being With You
Rolling Stones	First single (charted 25 July 1963, reached no. 21)			Come On
	Second single, and first Top 20 (14 Nov 1963, 12)			I Wanna Be Your Man
	Third single, and first Top 10 (27 Feb 1964, 3)			Not Fade Away
	Fourth single, and first No. 1 (2 July 1964)			It's All Over Now
	Eighth and last UK No. 1 (23 July 1969)			Honky Tonk Women
Simon & Garfunkel	Only UK No. 1 (1970)			Bridge Over Troubled Water
Frank Sinatra	His two solo UK No. 1s	1954		Three Coins in the Fountain
		1966		Strangers in the Night
Slade	Fifth UK single, second to chart, and first No. 1 (1971)			Coz I Luv You
	Sixth and last UK No. 1 (1973)			Merry Xmas Everybody
Robbie Williams	Sixth solo single, and first No. 1			Millennium

UK No. 1s: firsts, superlatives, and other ... things

The first ever (14 Nov 1952)		Al Martino		Here in my Heart
First black artist (1954)		Winifred Atwell		Let's Have Another Party
The first instrumental No. 1 (1958)		Mantovani Orchestra		Song from Moulin Rouge
First all–female group (1964)		The Supremes		Baby Love
Oldest artist (67 yrs 316 days, 1968)		Louis Armstrong		What a Wonderful World
Oldest female artist (52 yrs 164 days, 1998)		Cher		Believe
Youngest artist (9 yrs 246 days, 1972)		Little Jimmy Osmond		Long Haired Lover from Liverpool
Youngest female artist (14 yrs 316 days, 1961)		Helen Shapiro		You Don't Know
Released in 1957, reached No. 1 in 1986		Jackie Wilson		Reet Petite
The 1,000th UK No. 1 (January 2005)		Elvis Presley		I Got Stung / One Night

Artists (etc.)

Who Let the Dogs Out – the fourth best–selling single of the year 2000 in the UK, reaching No. 2 and spending 23 weeks on the chart – was the only UK hit for (West Indian roots reggae band)		Baha Men
Midnight in Moscow, March of the Siamese Children, The Green Leaves of Summer and Sukiyaki were Top Ten hits in the early 1960s for		Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen
Petite fleur (1959) was the first and biggest hit for British jazz band leader		Chris Barber
Stranger in Paradise (1955) was the first hit and only No. 1, of		Tony Bennett
(Don't Fear) The Reaper (No. 16 in 1978) is the only UK hit for (US rock band)		Blue Öyster Cult
Broke a ten–year silence in January 2013 by releasing a single on his 66th birthday (died two days after his 69th)		David Bowie
First solo female artist to have a no. 1 hit with a self–written song (Wuthering Heights, 1978); first British solo female artist to have a No. 1 album (1980)		Kate Bush
Former lead singer of the Go–Gos: after their demise, made No. 1 in both the US and the UK with her debut solo single, Heaven Is a Place On Earth (1987)		Belinda Carlisle
First record to sell a million copies: Vesti la giubba (from Pagliacci), by		Enrico Caruso
Second (after Buddy Holly) to have a posthumous UK No. 1 single (Three Steps to Heaven, 1960)		Eddie Cochran
British comedy actor who had two Top Ten hits in 1962 – both produced by George Martin		Bernard Cribbins
Most UK Top 40 hits without a No. 1 (43, up to 2016)		Depeche Mode
First Jamaican artist to top the UK charts (1969: Israelites)		Desmond Dekker
Canadian hip–hop artiste (real name Aubrey Graham): spent 15 weeks at UK No. 1 in 2016 with One Dance (featuring Wizkid and Kyla)		Drake
US R&B combo – named after their drummer – whose only Top 20 hit was Zoom (1982) – reaching No. 2 in the UK		Fat Larry's Band
First to be No. 1 and No. 2 at the same time; second to have their first 3 singles reach No. 1 (Relax, Two Tribes, The Power of Love, 1983–4)		Frankie Goes to Hollywood
US DJ, said to have coined the term 'Rock 'n' roll'		Alan Freed
UK No. 1s (2002–3) with covers of Unchained Melody, The Long and Winding Road / Suspicious Minds, Spirit in the Sky; also with Anyone of Us (Stupid Mistake) (Pop Idol runner–up)		Gareth Gates
First to have their first three singles go to No. 1 (How do you do it, I like it, You'll never walk alone – March–October 1963)		Gerry & the Pacemakers
First act to enter the UK top ten on downloads alone (2006, with Something Kinda Ooooh)		Girls Aloud
First to have a posthumous UK No. 1 single (It Doesn't Matter Anymore, 1959)		Buddy Holly
First to have three consecutive UK No. 1 hits (1962–3)		Frank Ifield
The only father and son to have separate UK No. 1 hits, each in his own right		J. & E. Iglesias
Seven consecutive No. 1 singles on the (US) Billboard Hot 100, 1985–8		Whitney Houston
First and only artist to have 30 consecutive Top 10 singles (solo and with a group – Guinness Book of Records 2008)		Ronan Keating
The oldest living artist to have a UK No. 1 album (2009, aged 92, with We'll Meet Again – a Best Of compilation)		Vera Lynn
US vocal group: a US and UK No. 1 in 1961 with Blue Moon (later to become an anthem for Manchester City FC)		The Marcels
UK and US No. 1s with Rock Your Baby (1974)		George McCrae
No. 1 with The Joker, in the USA in 1974, and in the UK in 1990 after it was used in a Levi's advert; also UK No. 2 with Abracadabra (1982)		Steve Miller Band
Top Ten hit in 1968 with the cringeworthy Yummy Yummy Yummy		Ohio Express
Youngest solo artist ever to top the UK singles charts		'Little' Jimmy Osmond

Brothers who both topped the UK charts as solo artists in 1972

Jimmy & Donny Osmond

Reached No. 2 in 1995 with Guaglione, forty years after his first hit and only No. 1 Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White(1955)		Perez 'Prez' Prado
Has had five posthumous UK No. 1s – more than any other artist		Elvis Presley
Running Bear (1959) was the first hit and only No. 1 for		Johnny Preston
The only band in which every member has composed more than one No. 1 single		Queen
US rap metal band, UK Christmas No. 1 2009 with Killing in the Name (recorded 1992) following a campaign launched on Facebook to prevent the X Factor winner getting it		Rage Against the Machine
Fairground (1995) is the only UK No. 1 single (up to December 2021) for		Simply Red
First female singer to have a UK No. 1 (1952, with You Belong To Me)		Jo Stafford
War (1970 – UK No. 3, US No. 1) – featuring the lyric "War – what is it good for?"		Edwin Starr
Set a record in November 2022 by occupying all Top Ten positions in the Billboard Hot 100		Taylor Swift
First Russian act to have a UK No. 1 single (2002 – All the Things She Said)		t.A.T.u.
2014 single All About That Bass reached No. 1 in the UK, USA and many other countries		Meghan Trainor
First act – or second after the Beatles – to have seven consecutive UK No. 1 singles (1999–2000)		Westlife
Thirteen UK Top Ten hits, including 8 from 1965 to 1967, but no No. 1 (their third single, My Generation, reached No. 2; their only US Top 10 hit was I Can See for Miles, No. 9 in 1967)		The Who
Novelty act, linked to a popular children's television series: the most successful chart act in the UK in 1974, with four Top 10 singles hits (total 65 weeks in the chart) and three Top 20 albums		The Wombles
No. 1s with Unchained Melody and The Man from Laramie – both 1955		Jimmy Young

LadBaby

Don't ask me to comment on the contents of this section.

The blogger Mark Ian Hoyle, a.k.a. LadBaby, broke records in 2021 when he scored the Christmas No. 1 for the fourth consecutive year. These are the four titles:

2018		We Built This City	2019		I Love Sausage Rolls
2020		Don't Stop Me Eatin'	2021		Sausage Rolls for Everyone

Collaborators on the 2021 Christmas No. 1:

Ed Sheeran

Elton John

The Spice Girls

The Spice Girls released ten singles in the UK and elsewhere.  Nine of them reached No. 1 in the UK.

Title	Year	Highest	Weeks
Wannabe	1996	1	7
Say You'll Be There	1996	1	2
2 Become 1	1996	1	3
Mama / Who do you Think you Are	1997	1	3
Spice Up Your Life	1997	1	1
Too Much	1997	1	2
Stop	1998	2
Viva Forever	1998	1	2
Goodbye	1998	1	1
Holler / Let Love Lead the Way	2000	1	1

2 Become 1, Too Much and Goodbye were the UK's Christmas No. 1s in their respective years (1996–8).  The Spice Girls were only the second act to have three consecutive UK Christmas No. 1s, the first being the Beatles in 1963–5.  (The Beatles also had the honour in 1967.)

Stop was kept out of the No. 1 spot by It's Like That, credited to "Run–DMC vs. Jason Nevins" – a reworking of Run–DMC's first single from 1983. It spent six weeks at No. 1.

Geri Halliwell left the group in 1998 and didn't feature on the last two No. 1 singles. (Goodbye has been described as a tribute to her.) Sales of the Spice Girls' third album, Forever – released in November 2000 – were disappointing; it reached No. 2, but was kept off the No. 1 spot by Westlife's second album, Coast to Coast (released on the same day). In December 2000 the Spice Girls unofficially announced that they were beginning an indefinite hiatus and would be concentrating on their solo careers in the foreseeable future. Two of them were also busy raising families. Mel B gave birth to Phoenix Chi in February 1999; Victoria Adams followed suit in the following month when she made David Beckham a proud father; they married four months later.

The group (including Geri Halliwell) reformed in 2007 and released a Greatest Hits album.  The track Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) was released as a single, but only reached No. 11.

When not performing as a group they have all pursued solo careers, and all except one have had No. 1 hit singles:

Artist	Title		Year
Melanie B featuring Missy Elliott		I Want You Back	1998 (26 September)
Geri Halliwell		Mi Chico Latino	1999 (28 August)
Geri Halliwell		Lift Me Up	1999 (13 November)
Geri Halliwell		Bag It Up	2000 (25 March)
Melanie C featuring Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes		Never Be the Same Again	2000 (1 April)
Melanie C		I Turn to You	2000 (15 August)
Emma Bunton		What Took You So Long?	2001 (14 April)
Geri Halliwell		It's Raining Men	2001 (12 May)

Victoria Beckham's most successful single was Out of your Mind (True Steppers and Dane Bowers featuring Victoria Beckham). Released in August 2000, it reached No. 2 in the UK charts.

Jonathan King

Jonathan King was essentially a record producer, who first came to public notice in 1965 (as an undergraduate) when he wrote, produced and sang Everyone's Gone to the Moon. It spent 11 weeks on the UK chart and reached No. 4.

In the 1970s he had a string of hits under various names:

Let it All Hang Out	1970	26		Jonathan King
It's the Same Old Song	1971	19		The Weathermen
Sugar Sugar)	1971	12		Sakkarin
Loop di Love	1972	4		Shag
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	1974	29		Bubblerock
Chick a Boom (don't ya jes love it)	1975	36		53 and 3rd
Una Paloma Blanca	1975	5		Jonathan King
In the Mood	1976	46		Sound 9418
It Only Takes a Minute	1976	9		100 Ton & a Feather
Lick a Smurp for Christmas (All Fall Down)	1978	58		Father Abraphart & the Smurps

Not for nothing are the 1970s known as "the decade that taste forgot".

Jonathan King also had six other minor hits under his own name (apart from the aforementioned Everyone's Gone to the Moon).

Most weeks at No. 1 (UK)

Note that some of these singles had more than one spell at No. 1; the number of weeks shown is the total. Please click on the red 'information' icons for details (these will be displayed when you reveal the titles).

In this section there are no questions as such. All details are initially hidden; every answer can be toggled individually as normal), but in this table you can start by revealing one or more columns and test yourself on the answers that you haven't revealed. For example, you can reveal the years and the artists, and test yourself on the titles and/or the number of weeks that the single spent at No. 1.

Pos		Wks		Year		Artist		Title
1		18		1953		Frankie Laine		I Believe
2		16		1991		Bryan Adams		Everything I Do (I Do It For You)
3		15		1994		Wet Wet Wet		Love Is All Around
				2016		Drake ft. Wizkid and Kyla		One Dance
5		14		1975		Queen		Bohemian Rhapsody
				2017		Ed Sheeran		Shape of You
7		11		1955		Slim Whitman		Rose Marie
				2017		Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber		Despacito
				2019		Tones and I		Dance Monkey
10		10		1954		David Whitfield		Cara Mia
				1992		Whitney Houston		I Will Always Love You
				2007		Rihanna		Umbrella
13		9		1952		Al Martino		Here In My Heart
				1954		Eddie Calvert		Oh Mein Papa
				1954		Doris Day		Secret Love
				1957		Paul Anka		Diana
				1977		Wings		Mull of Kintyre / Girls' School
				1978		John Travolta & Olivia Newton–John		You're the One That I Want
				1984		Frankie Goes to Hollywood		Two Tribes
				2006		Gnarls Barkley		Crazy
				2016		Clean Bandit		Rockabye
				2018		Drake		God's Plan

Records (etc.)

The only recording to have been the UK's Christmas No. 1 single on two separate occasions			Bohemian Rhapsody
Co–written by Neil Sedaka; reached No. 18 in the UK when released by Tony Christie in 1971 as the follow–up to his biggest hit, I Did What I Did For Maria; reached No. 1 in 2005 after it was appropriated by comedian Peter Kay			(Is This the Way to) Amarillo
No. 1 hit in the UK for The Equals in 1968 and Pato Banton in 1994			Baby Come Back
Best–selling single ever, in the UK and worldwide (Elton John, 1997)			Candle in the Wind 1997
The UK's sixth–best–selling single of the 1960s (the Beatles had five of the top 7 – see Tears)	Title		The Carnival Is Over
	By		The Seekers
Harry Chapin's only No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (not a hit in the UK): a global hit, reaching the Top Ten in various countries including the UK, when covered by the US hard rock band Ugly Kid Joe in 1993			Cat's in the Cradle
The first gold disc: awarded 1942, for sales over 1.2 million, to Glenn Miller for			Chattanooga Choo Choo
The first new UK No. 1 of 1999: credited to Chef (from South Park – voiced by Isaac Hayes)			Chocolate Salty Balls
First song to reach No. 1 on downloads only (2006)	Title		Crazy
	By		Gnarls Barkley
The Osmonds' first UK Top 20 hit: despite the title, it's about "gas–guzzling cars" and their detrimental effect on the environment			Crazy Horses
The UK's best–selling single, before Candle in the Wind 1997 (over 5 million)			Do They Know It's Christmas?

The only UK Top 10 hit for both Barry Ryan (No. 2, 1968) and The Damned (No. 3, 1986) – written by Barry's twin Paul Ryan			Eloise
First of The Prodigy's two UK No. 1 singles (both 1996, from the album The Fat of the Land): shared its name with a Stephen King novel from 1980			Firestarter
Rogers & Hammerstein song: a No. 1 hit for Captain Sensible, 1982			Happy Talk
No. 4 for Louis Armstrong, No. 18 for Frankie Vaughan, No. 30 for Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen, No. 47 for Frank Sinatra (all 1964); No. 38 for the Bachelors (1966)			Hello, Dolly
The first No. 1 with a question in the title; originally recorded by US singer Patti Page, peaking at No. 9 (her only UK hit); but Liverpool's Lita Roza had a No. 1, entering the charts 2 weeks earlier – making her the first British woman to have a solo No. 1 hit. She also had two follow–up Top 20 hits			How Much is That Doggie in the Window?
Beach Boys single, a US No. 1 in 1988 after featuring in the film Cocktail (only reached No. 25 in the UK)			Kokomo
Bob Dylan's most successful single in the UK: 12 weeks in the charts in 1965, peaking at No. 4			Like a Rolling Stone
Composed in 1949 by Cuban bandleader Perez Prado; includes the lyric "a little bit of Monica in my life" (etc.); featured in a Guinness TV ad in 1999, after which Lou Bega took a sampled version to No. 1; also Bob the Builder's 2nd No. 1, in 2001			Mambo No. 5
Bob Dylan song: the title track on The Byrds'first album, their second single, and first hit (No. 1 in the UK and USA)			Mr. Tambourine Man
First single to sell 2 million copies in the UK (1977 Christmas No. 1; spent 9 weeks at No. 1)			Mull of Kintyre / Girls School (Wings)
Classic children's song: a No. 4 hit in 1984 for the post–punk band The Toy Dolls			Nellie the Elephant
UK No. 1 on the day that England won the FIFA World Cup: a Jagger & Richards composition, performed by Chris Farlowe & the Thunderbirds			Out of Time
Title shared by No. 1s for Fairground Attraction in 1988 and Ed Sheeran in 2017			Perfect
Recorded in 1957, reached No. 1 in the UK in 1986 after featuring in a clay animation video shown on the BBC2 series Arena (Jackie Wilson)			Reet Petite
Best–selling single of 1989, spending 6 weeks at No. 1 in the UK: by 'Italo house' group Black Box; featured Heather Small (later to find fame with M People) on vocals, re–recorded after their label was sued over an unauthorised sample of Love Sensation by Loleatta Holloway			Ride On Time
The Beatles' best–selling single, the UK's best–selling single of the 1960s, and the first single ever to sell over a million copies			She Loves You
1957: Tommy Steele and Guy Mitchell both had UK No. 1s with			Singing the Blues
Adele single: the UK's best seller of 2011, and the first for six years to sell over a million copies			Someone Like You
UK No. 1 for Frank & Nancy Sinatra in 1967, and for Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman in 2001			Somethin' Stupid
No. 1 for Norman Greenbaum (1970), Doctor & the Medics (1986), Gareth Gates (2003)			Spirit in the Sky
A Top 20 hit for its American composer Bobby Hebb, in 1966; also a hit for Cher and Georgie Fame in the same year, and a UK No. 3 for Boney M in 1976			Sunny
US No. 1, UK No. 2, for Elvis Presley (1969); UK No. 8 for Fine Young Cannibals (1986); also one side of a double A–sided No. 1 (with The Long and Winding Road) for Gareth Gates (2003)			Suspicious Minds
The UK's third–best–selling single of the 1960s (the Beatles had 5 of the top 7 – see The Carnival is Over)	Title		Tears
	By		Ken Dodd
Novelty song (published as a nursery rhyme around 1700): a version by Harry Belafonte and Odetta reached No. 32 in the UK chart in 1961			There's a Hole In My Bucket
UK No. 1 for ten weeks in the summer of 2007, as the country suffered the wettest May to July period on record (by Rihanna featuring Jay–Z)			Umbrella
Recorded in 1965 (by the Righteous Brothers), became the UK's best–selling single of 1990 after it was revived in the film Ghost			Unchained Melody
Single by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars: sold a million copies within ten weeks of its release in December 2014			Uptown Funk
1981 single, voted "the greatest ever number two" by BBC Radio 2 listeners in December 2012 (i.e. the greatest single to reach No. 2 but not No. 1)	Title		Vienna
Kept off the No. 1 spot by John Lennon's Woman (for 1 week) and Joe Dolce's Shaddap You Face (3 weeks)	By		Ultravox
The last single released by Elvis Presley in his lifetime			Way Down
Sold most sheet music			White Christmas
Reached No. 8 for the Bluebells in 1984, and No. 1 in 1993 after being featured in a Volkswagen Golf advert			Young at Heart

Places, Events, etc.

German home of the children's choir that made the charts with The Happy Wanderer, 1954			Obernkirchen
The "Summer of Love" – Sgt. Pepper, Jimi Hendrix, San Francisco (Scott McKenzie), etc.			1967
Festival at a Californian "County Fairgrounds", June 1967 – included the first major US performaces by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, etc., and widely cited as the beginning of the "Summer of Love"			Monterey
"An Aquarian Exposition – 3 Days of Peace and Love" – held on Max Yasgur's farm near Bethel, New York, 15–18 August 1969			Woodstock
Notorious concert organised by the Rolling Stones at a motor racing circuit in northern California, December 1969 (4 months after Woodstock); widely seen as the end of the "hippie era"; filmed as Gimme Shelter			Altamont
Takes place nearly every year at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset			Glastonbury Festival
Organiser of Glastonbury Festival (owner of Worthy Farm)			Michael Eavis
Main stage at Glastonbury Festival (its second incarnation burnt down in 1994; it was rebuilt in 2000)			Pyramid Stage

Band Aid (1984, etc.)

Bob Geldof's collaborator in forming Band Aid, and in writing Do They Know it's Christmas?; also played keyboards on the recording		Midge Ure
Played the drums on Do They Know it's Christmas? (original 1984 version)		Phil Collins
Sang the opening line on Do They Know it's Christmas? (original 1984 version)		Paul Young
Sang the opening line on Do They Know it's Christmas? (1989 version)		Kylie Minogue
Sang the opening line on Do They Know it's Christmas? (2004 version)		Chris Martin
Sang the opening line on Do They Know it's Christmas? (2014 version)		One Direction

Live Aid (1985)

Venues: London and		Philadelphia
First act at Wembley (opening with Rockin' all over the World)		Status Quo
First act in Philadelphia		Bryan Adams
Played in both London and Philadelphia		Phil Collins
Sang the opening line on Do They Know it's Christmas?		David Bowie
Logo was a guitar, with the body in the shape of		Africa

Live 8 (2005)

The London concert opened with Paul McCartney and Bono performing

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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