Dance Top 40 (The Star vol. 5, no. 2, 29/7/1983)
Madonna, Irene Cara, New Order -” check out what was pumping Sydney’s gay discos twenty years ago this week.
1 Flashdance (what a feeling)-”Irene Cara
2 Memory-”Meange
3 These Memories-”Oh Romeo
4 Waiting for a train-”Flash & The Pan
5 Stay with me-”India
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9 IOU-”Freeze
10 Safety Dance-”Men Without Hats
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12 Sweet Dreams (are made of this)-”Eurythmics
13 Juicy Fruit-”Mtume
14 She works hard for the money-”Donna Summer
15 So many men, so little time-”Miquel Brown
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17 Burning up/Physical attraction-”Madonna
18 Inside love (so personal)-”George Benson
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20 Searchin’ (I gotta find a man)-”Hazell Dean
21 Blue Monday/The Beach-”New Order
22 Blind vision-”Blancmange
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24 (Keep feeling) Fascination-”Human League
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27 Maniac-”Michael Sembello
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32 Just can’t help believing-”Boystown Gang
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36 Save the overtime for me-”Gladys Knight & The Pips
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38 State Farm/Nobody’s diary-”Yazoo
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