Another Cliff collab, All I Ask Of You with Sarah Brightman, places at 29 on the year-end Top 40.Ĭompleting the Top 5 is Diana Ross, who also made a long-awaited return to the top that year with Chain Reaction (677k). The track was 1986's fourth best-seller with 709,000 sales. MORE: Soapstars turned popstars - from telly dramas to chart triumphsġ986 also saw the formation of Comic Relief, which gave Cliff Richard an unexpected (and unusual) Number 1 in Living Doll, a collaboration with the cast of popular sitcom The Young Ones that spent three weeks at the top and earnt Cliff his first chart-topper in seven years. The track featured heavily on the soap that summer - sung by Nick's character Simon 'Wicksy' Wicks - sending it to Number 1 for thre weeks. Meanwhile, Eastenders actor and singer Nick Berry scored the second best-seller of 1986 with Every Loser Wins (748k).
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The pop duo's cover of the 70s disco classic spent four weeks at the top of the chart and sold 768,500 copies to be the UK's best-seller of 1986, as revealed on new Channel 5 series Britain's Favourite 80s Songs - currently airing on Fridays at 10pm.ĭon't Leave Me This Way was the band's first and only Number 1, and is an example of a cover charting higher than the original: the 1977 recording by Harold Melvin And The Bluetones' reached Number 5, while another cover by Themla Houston peaked at 13. 1986 saw a mammoth 21 singles hit Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart - the biggest of them all that year was The Communards' Don't Leave Me This Way.