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All Yorkshire Top 50 Chart

OK - The results are in! The All time Yorkshire Chart.

The rules were simple. Yorkshire only.

1. Pulp 'Common People'
2. Everything But The Girl 'Missing'
3. Shed 7 'Getting Better All The Time'
4. Embrace ' The Good Will Come Out'
5. Heaven 17 'We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thang'
6. Bill Nelson 'Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape'
7. Robert Palmer 'Addicted To Love'
8.Chumbawamba - 'Tubthumping'
9. The Music - 'Truth is No Words'
10. Human League ' Don't You Want Me'
11. Pulp - 'Disco 2000'
12. Gang Of Four 'At Home He's A Tourist'
13. Pulp - 'Sorted for Es and Whizz'
14. LongPigs 'I lost Myself'
15. Def Leppard 'Get Your Rocks Off'
16. Gang Of Four 'I Love A Man In Uniform'
17. LSK 'The Takeover'
18. Moloko 'The Time Is Now'
19. ABC 'Look of love'
20. Def Leppard - 'Animal'
21. Sisters of Mercy 'Alice'
22. Caberet Voltaire ' Sensoria'
23. Be Bop Deluxe ' Maid In Heaven'
24. Nightmares In Wax '70s 80s'
25. Beautiful South - 'A Little Time'
26. Embrace ' Come Back to What you Know'
27. Housemartins - 'Happy Hour'
28. Richard Hawley ' Run For Me'
29. Chumbawamba - 'Tubthumping'
30. Terrorvision - 'Tequila'
31. Beautiful South - 'Song for Whoever'
32. Heaven 17 'Temptation'
33. Shed 7 - 'Chasing Rainbows'
34. Moloko - 'Sing It Back'
35. ABC - 'All Of My Heart'
36. Sisters of Mercy ' Temple Of Love'
37. Wedding Present - 'Why Are You Being So Reasonable now'
38. Robert Palmer - 'Looking For Clues'
39. Def Leppard - 'Pour Some Sugar On Me'
40. Comsat Angels ' Independence Day'
41. Beautiful South - 'You Keep It all In'
42. Crazy World of Arthur Brown ' Fire'
43. Chris Spedding ' Motorbikin''
44. Beautiful South - 'A Little Time'
45. Everything But The Girl - 'Each and Every One'
46. Gang of Four ' Love Like Anthrax'
47. Danse Society - 'Clocks'
48. Def Leppard ' Photograph'
49. Robert Palmer - 'I Didn't Mean to Turn You On'
50. Shed 7 - 'Going for Gold'

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TOP COVER VERSIONS
1.Joe Cocker 'With A Little Help from My Friends'
2. Age Of Chance ' Kiss'
3. Housemartins 'Caravan Of Love'
4. Beautiful South ' Everybody's Talkin'
5. Human League ' You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling'
6. Joe Cocker 'I Shall Be Released'

YORKSHIRE CONNECTION
1. Soft Cell 'Tained Love'
2. The Cult ' Fire Woman'
3. Gomez 'Whippin' Picadilly'
4. The Grid 'Swamp Thing'
5. Baby Bird 'You're Gorgeous'
6. James 'Sit down'

BIG UPS
David Bowie (for that Mick Ronson guitar solo on 'Moonage Daydream').
Fatboy Slim - for getting out of the fourth best band in Hull.
Kate Rusby - for being beautifully Barnsley.
Billy Currie - The power behind Ultravox.
Mel B / Mel Brown - Crap songs, great girl.
Pete Thomas - Elvis Costello's cool drummer.
Cosey Fanni Tutti - Thobbing Gristle's main force.

Turn It Up!

The Ayup! Music section, celebrating the huge range of talent found in England's largest county. It's not all about the Cocker twins (Joe and Jarvis), it's also about Soft Cell and The Grid, Sisters of Mercy and The Mission, Heaven 17 and The Human League, The Housemartins and The Beautiful South. It's also about the venues, the clubs, the fanzines and the labels. Here's the last few articles...

Len Liggins
Sid examines the Ukrainian phenomenon and the man behind it, Len Liggins.

Clare Teal -
Jazz Diva!

We've seen the future of that Jazzy stuff and she comes from...Yorkshire!

Not like a proper job

Sheffield's leading musical scribe paid tribute. And old steel city groovers are unearthed.

The '77 Y-zine explosion

The punk rock era's xerox machine mafia livened up our local scene and proved that it wasn't all one chord wonders.

The Shed

An extraodinary musical experience at the smallest venue in England. Ayup gets rural.

Barnsley Played Pop

Believe it or not it wasn't always about pub crawls and nightclubs. Barnsley had a right thing going once...

and finally the follow up piece:

Tarn Today

The state of barnsley music in 2002.

Flipping The Bird

Stephen Jones and Baby Bird return
+ a look at Shed 7.

Embrace + Ann Lee