The Chart Show - Top Ten (5th February 1988)

A very unusual intro to this Top Ten, as the Chart Show usually used something else. But anyway in this chart, Elton John decides to release again Candle in the Wind. However this time, it was a live version from Down Under. The studio version rarely gets played on radio stations. Everytime they play Candle in the Wind, its always the live version, which was released as a single in 1988. I think Elton loved the song so much, he decided it to re-release it again in 1997, but this time with slightly different lyrics. Obviously the different lyrics referred to Princess Diana, who died in a car crash, which Elton John sang at her funeral. Remarkably its still the biggest selling single of all time in the UK.

Before the likes of Miley Cyrus and other awful kiddie-pop artists, there was a young lady, who I had the hots for as a teenager, who produced, wrote and sang for her first album. Yes you got it, it was Debbie Gibson, who probably had more hits in America than the UK. In the 90's, she appeared in Grease, the musical version, with Craig McClachlan. Thankfully she didn't sing "Mona" or any of Craig's past catelogue !!!! In 2005 she appeared naked in Playboy magazine, which I'm sure is available on the internet somewhere, but since then, she has kind of disappeared from the music scene.

Her music was very teeny-pop as you may noticed, but at that time, I was quite a fan. Looking back, it does bring back memories, but I certainly wouldn't be playing it on my i-pod.

(Edit: I forgot to mention that Candle in the Wind was originally released in 1974)