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The UK hits continued with " Gasoline Alley Bred " ( Sep. 1970, UK No. 14, Australia No. 20 ), while the Tony Hicks ' song, " Too Young to Be Married " — merely an album track in the UK and the USA – became a No. 1 single in Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia, also reaching No. 9 in Singapore.
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Further international success came in the UK and Europe with their third and fourth albums, Woodface and Together Alone and the compilation album Recurring Dream, which included the hits " Fall at Your Feet ", " Weather with You ", " Distant Sun ", " Locked Out ", " Instinct " and " Not the Girl You Think You Are ".
At the same time the non-album single " John, I ’ m Only Dancing ", and " All the Young Dudes ", a song he wrote and produced for Mott the Hoople, became UK hits.
The album went to number one in the UK, spawning the hits " Rebel Rebel " and " Diamond Dogs ", and number five in the US.
Peaking at number six in the UK, the album yielded the hits " Day-In, Day-Out " ( his 60th single ), " Time Will Crawl ", and " Never Let Me Down ".
Making prominent use of electronic instruments, the album, which reunited Bowie with Let's Dance producer Nile Rodgers, confirmed Bowie's return to popularity, hitting the number one spot on the UK charts and spawning three top 40 hits, including the top 10 song " Jump They Say ".
Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum ' n ' bass, Earthling ( 1997 ) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album became UK top 40 hits.
In 1997 Enya released her greatest hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, again a top five smash in the UK and Germany, which featured two new songs: " Paint the Sky with Stars " and " Only If ..."; " Only If ..." later became a single.
The band's success peaked between 1980 and 1981 with a number of UK chart hits, including the classic single " Ace of Spades ", which is still a crowd favourite today and the # 1 on the live album No Sleep ' til Hammersmith.
* Artists achieving simultaneous US and UK number-one hits
This motivated Polygram ( who now owned the Verve / MGM label archives ) to re-release the song to Top 40 radio where it became a major hit for a second time ( their second UK # 1 ) and a greatest hits CD collection called The Very Best of The Righteous Brothers ... Unchained Melody.
He had a string of hits in 1963 with " In Dreams " ( U. S. number 7 / UK number 6 ), " Falling " ( U. S. number 22 / UK number 9 ), " Mean Woman Blues " ( U. S. number 5 / UK number 3 ) coupled with " Blue Bayou " ( U. S. number 29 / UK number 3 ).
A compilation LP of Orbison's greatest hits went to number 1 in the UK in 1977.
They achieved several pop / rap hits during the dance-club cultural boom era of the early 1980s, particularly in the UK, where they still enjoy a strong fan following today.
In January 2009 the band embarked on a UK and European tour, the " Another Bites Tour ", in which they played their first two albums in full, as well as an encore of their other hits.
The band enjoyed some chart success, including the UK and Canadian hits " Making Plans for Nigel " ( 1979 ) and " Senses Working Overtime " ( 1982 ), but are perhaps even better known for their long-standing critical ( rather than commercial ) success.
The 1995 Pizzamania album spawned three UK Top 40 hits: " Trippin ' on Sunshine ", " Sex on the Streets ", and " Happiness ".
In 1990, the band ( now without Lindsey Buckingham ) recorded Behind the Mask, but the album only reached ' Gold ' status in the U. S. The album did however, enter the UK album chart at # 1, but there were no UK hits from the album and only Christine's song " Save Me " made the US Top 40.
In 2010 he announced that he was to release " Shame ", a duet with Take That lead singer songwriter Gary Barlow as the first single from his greatest hits collection In and Out of Consciousness: The Greatest Hits 1990 – 2010 which was certified silver in the UK and charted in 19 countries worldwide.
The band's second greatest hits compilation, Greatest Hits II, followed in October 1991, which is the eighth best-selling album of all time in the UK and has sold 16 million copies worldwide.
The album and the first single, " Tom Jones International ", were top 40 hits in the UK.
UK and continued
Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the group's popularity continued to grow ( although they were always more popular in North America and Continental Europe than in their home country, never achieving a UK Top 40 single or Top 20 album ).
The Government of the Republic of Cyprus has continued as the sole internationally-recognized authority on the island ( as well as the UK being internationally recognized with respect to the SBAs ), though in practice its power extends only to the government controlled area.
Both girls married and lived abroad for a time after they grew up, yet the photographs continued to hold the public imagination ; in 1966 a reporter from the Daily Express newspaper traced Elsie, who had by then returned to the UK.
Politicians with Scottish connections continued to play a prominent part in UK political life, with Prime Ministers including the Conservatives Harold Macmillan ( whose father was Scottish ) from 1955 – 57 and Alec Douglas-Home from 1963-64.
After Dunkirk Alexander returned to the UK and continued to command I Corps, now guarding the coasts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
In April 2012, the UK Government made law changes to prevent the Channel Islands continued exploitation of LVCR, meaning that UK residents would have to pay the full VAT amount on items imported from the Channel Islands.
Brown continued releasing recordings: in 1993, he issued the album, Universal James, which included Brown's final Billboard charted single, " Can't Get Any Harder ", which peaked at # 76 on the US R & B chart and # 59 on the UK chart.
Despite the Rhodesian Constitution of 1965 coming into effect as a result of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, appeals continued to be accepted by the Privy Council as late as 1969 due to the fact that under international law, Rhodesia remained a UK colony.
As well as running this new venture, he continued his interest in a range of businesses in the UK and Australia, including a small aviation company and several garages and car dealerships.
From 1998 through to 2003, the Mars society UK ( MSUK ) continued to support Beagle 2, providing numerous public events at which members of the Beagle 2 project team could speak, and the Beagle 2 model be displayed.
it also continued to provided consultation and white papers on the UK's changing space policy and helped determine the UK government's decision to actively engage in human space flight activities from 2010.
The politics of the British New Left can be contrasted with Solidarity, UK, which continued to focus primarily on industrial issues.
Critical acclaim continued to mount for Rush in 2010 when, on September 28, Classic Rock Magazine announced Rush would be that year's Living Legends awarded at the Marshall Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards in the UK.
The work on the draft specification continued in the following few years, where Kevin Holley of Cellnet ( now Telefónica O2 UK ) played a leading role.
2010 for the Stranglers continued their recent resurgence, starting with an extensive UK tour, including a sold-out return to the Hammersmith Apollo in March, their first visit there since 1987.
TiVo ended UK unit sales in January 2003, though it continued to sell subscriptions and supply guide data to existing subscribed units until June 2011.
Although subsequently relieved of their role as the deliverer of the UK strategic nuclear deterrent, the Vulcan squadrons continued to serve with the same WE. 177B weapon in a low-level penetration role assigned to SACEUR for use in a tactical role in Europe.
Jackson and Livingstone, however, continued to be involved and approved all cover and internal illustrations within the UK.
The Iberian conflict began when Portugal continued trade with the UK despite French restrictions.
Hicks was a huge hit in the UK and Ireland and continued touring there throughout 1991.
Other forms of psychosurgery continued to be legally practiced in controlled and regulated US centers and in Belgium, Finland, India, Sweden, the UK, and the Netherlands.
While she continued to make films in the US and the UK throughout the 1960s, her career languished in the 1970s, where she appeared in a number of horror flicks.
The Hermes fleet had continued in operation serving several UK airports, mainly on inclusive tour flights, with the last example being retired from service in late 1962.
They continued their reunion tour in 2008, and locations included New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Macau, Japan, Canada, US, France, Germany, Norway, Denmark, UK, Serbia, Poland, Puerto Rico, and South America including Chile, Argentina and Brazil, where they played for 75, 000 people each.
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