*The Week That Was – 12th January 1981

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

*The Week That Was – 5th January 1981

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