*The Week That Was – 26th January 1981

Single of the week: The Freshies- I’m in Love With the Girl on a Certain Manchester Checkout Desk

26th January 1981
not very good day
UGH!

27th January 1981
Ipswich 3 – Shrewsbury 0

28th January 1981
16UP about drugs and Malcolm Owen
RUTS

29th January 1981
Quite a good day
More home-taping

30th January 1981
Record of the month
Damned – There Ain’t No Sanity Clause

31st January 1981
Ipswich 4 – Stoke 0
Fitt is shit

1st February 1981
JOHN LYDON
Born yesterday
If you see what I mean

This week’s chart-topper is John Lennon – Imagine
Highest new entry: Blondie – Rapture

*The Week That Was – 19th January 1981

Single of the week: Wild Willy Barrett – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

19th January 1981
Wrote a good poem
like J C Clarke

20th January 1981
Waiting for the next episode of Grange Hill
Quite a good day

21st January 1981
16UP hope it’s better than last week with some
PUNKS

22nd January 1981
Bad day I hate school
TOTP is SHIT

23rd January 1981
Have to see Kneeves for something
> Been made a prefect

24th January 1981
Shrewsbury 0 – Ipswich 0
replay Tuesday
Got a good edition of Sounds Oi

25th January 1981
Mum’s not working
Shirley is instead

This week’s chart-topper is John Lennon – Imagine
Highest new entry: John Lennon – Woman

Record of the week: Damned – There Ain’t No Sanity Clause

12th January 1981
So Bored
By the end of the week I could die of boredom

13th January 1981
OK day, got Flexipop with Sex Pistols

14th January 1981
16UP
wasn’t all that good
John Cooper Clarke

15th January 1981
Mum has to pay for the roof of our house which is bust
Estimate 500 pounds

16th January 1981
Quite a good day
New pinball snooker

17th January 1981
Going to Mac’s
Playing snooker loads
Move stuff on walls
Everton 0 v Ipswich 0

18th January 1981
Usual day as Sundays go

This week’s chart-topper is John Lennon – Imagine
Highest new entry: David Bowie – Scary Monsters

Single of the week: The Motels – Days Are OK

5th January 1981
Last of Something Else
It was good for not a good day

6th January 1981
Gotta finish project
Sex – even Grange Hill is talking about it

7th January 1981
School starts
Nicked a golf ball and tennis scoring sheet from school

8th January 1981
Nothing happened Bored Bored Bored
Nearly bust record player

9th January 1981
Hurray no school tomorrow
Go and see Fog

10th January 1981
Didn’t do much
Ipswich 2 v Notts Forest 0

11th January 1981
Got up at 12
SEEMS LIKE A GOOD DAY

This week’s chart-topper is John Lennon – Imagine
Highest new entry – The Look – I Am The Beat