Here, from our recent Two By Two Brewery, show is a couplet of songs responsible for a lot of record sales. Hurry Home, a top 20 hit for Wavelength was in the UK charts for three months. Sarah Brightman also recorded Hurry Home and it appeared on a bonus CD (Rare Tracks) coupled with her album Fly II. Details here https://bit.ly/flyII
Please Don’t Sympathise was released by Sheena Easton for her “Madness Money And Music” album which went top 20 around the world and in particular went Gold in Canada.
A young Canadian (Celine Dion) picked up on the song and recorded it in French for her album “Les Chemins De Ma Maison”. Celine also released the song as a single and was a massive hit, going Gold and winning an award for the highest-selling single in Canada of 1984. The album sold shedloads in Canada and France.
Cherry Red Records recently re-released a Deluxe edition CD of Sheena’s Madness Money and Music as well as a version on green vinyl. The liner notes on this re-release refer to me as “The Godfather of the North East NWOBHM”.