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"No no, no no no no...."; there was no escape from 2 Unlimited eleven years
ago this week. No Limit was at #1 for the second of its five weeks on top,
having been the record which finally dethroned Whitney Houston's interminable
10-week reign at the summit with I Will Always Love You. Another song from the
soundtrack of The Bodyguard, a rather pointless xerox of Chaka Khan's I'm Every
Woman, was beginning its chart career by debuting at #5 to give Houston two
simultaneous hits in the top 5.
I'm Every Woman would fall short of the top spot, peaking the following week
at #4, and the single denied top billing by 2 Unlimited - Take That's Why
Can't I Wake Up With You? in at #2 - would also never reach #1. A dramatically
reworked version of a song from their debut album Take That & Party, the track
now sounded like George Michael on a good day and deservedly gave them their
biggest hit single up to that point. It would later appear on their next album,
Everything Changes, in October 1993.
Duran Duran: Greatest
As one-half of Eurythmics, Annie Lennox had a hit single peak at nearly every
position within the Top 10; only #7 proved elusive. Her solo career kicked
off nicely in 1992 with a #5 (Why) and a #8 (Walking On Broken Glass), but the
#3 achieved this week in 1993 by the AA-sided Little Bird/Love Song For A
Vampire would be her penultimate brush with the upper reaches of the chart. Little
Bird was the fifth and final track to be lifted from Lennox's chart-topping
Diva, and the most similar to the Eurythmics' sound, while Love Song For A
Vampire was a new recording from the soundtrack to box-office smash of that month,
Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Duran Duran, after a commercial decline in the latter half of the Eighties
and early Nineties, made a memorable comeback and return to form with Ordinary
World, which had just peaked at #6 and now dropped to #9. The revival,
follow-up Come Undone's #13 peak notwithstanding, would be shortlived; it was the last
week the band ever spent in the UK Top 10. By contrast, East 17 - Cockney
wide boys rather than Brummie wild boys - were there for only the second time in
a brief but productive career that went on to spawn several big hits. Deep
slipped a notch from its high of #5, but the best was still to come for them in
1994.
Likewise, M People were just beginning a run of singles that would see Mike
Pickering, Heather Small and co. become a ubiquitous name in Nineties chart
pop. The reissued and remixed How Can I Love You More? had improved significantly
on its #29 peak first time out in 1992, rising to #8 but now moving on down
to #10.
Lenny Kravitz: Greatest Hits
Arriving right outside the Top 10 at #11, Lenny Kravitz's Are You Gonna Go My
Way? (and its parent album of the same name) would temporarily elevate him to
Rock's major league. The single went on to reach #4, while the album debuted
at #1, but it was another six years before Kravitz's next Top 10 single.
Evergreen hitmakers Rod Stewart and Sting were in the Top 20; the former a
new entry at #17 with his cover of the Rolling Stones' Ruby Tuesday and the
latter up 3 places to #14 with his finest solo single If I Ever Lose My Faith In
You. 12 months later the pair would team up with Bryan Adams' for the #1 smash
All For Love.
Highest climber of the week, Oh Carolina by Shaggy, moved #37-#18 on its
route to #1. On March 27th 1993, the entire UK Top 3 would feature reggae singles
- Shaggy, still at #1, joined by Snow and Shabba Ranks.
Saint Etienne: Too Young To Die
Arguably the best, if not the most successful, singles act of the 1990s were
Saint Etienne. Their chart breakthrough came in 1991 with the #39 hit Only
Love Can Break Your Heart, but by 1993 they could debut as high as #12 with
tracks like You're In A Bad Way. Sadly, its debut position was as good as it could
manage, already dropping to #15 by this week.
Outisde the top 20, there were entries for Metallica at #21 with Sad But True
(the umpteenth single release from 1991's epochal "Black" album), for R.E.M.
at #22 with Automatic For The People's third hit The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite,
and at #40 for yet another track of some vintage, Tell Me Why was the last
single lifted from Genesis' We Can't Dance album that dated back to November
1991, and it unsurprisingly never went any higher than its debut position.
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