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This is top flight tune machine, I am Andy Dawson, pop up up up. I'm saying, if you delay me so well.

Welcome along, it's another tune machine episode of course where we look back at a historical

top 40 chart from the world of pop as chosen for us by the the random pop blob.

What does it we've got to say before tells us the chart, random blob, open your gob.

Open your gob. Tell us how to do our job. Do our job. Pop job if you like.

And the chart that it's giving us this week is...

Thank you very much, random pop blob. That would have been my, that's my dad's birthday,

18th February and on that day he would have been celebrating, let's see now, his 47th birthday.

Well, fancy that. So I don't know what he did but I like to think about it,

I like to think he went out to a disco and danced to some of the very tracks we were about to discuss.

I would imagine he would have done yes, definitely, to celebrate his 40th year.

We have to... 47th, I apologise.

So that means he was born in the same year as John Lennon then because John Lennon's birthday is

about now, he's on the front cover of the radio time this week, John Lennon at 80. So he was born

in 1940. Yeah, just before lockdown we celebrated my dad's 80th year.

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