This was the last summer of 1989 and as a child I remember it being a very good one. My memories of the year were being in Mallorca and bugging every DJ in every bar to play something by Kylie!

Then there was the Hitman Roadshow! Everything that was played on my hi-fi that year had "PWL" on the label, I was completely obsessed [not like now of course!]

These were the top ten movies in August 1989:

1 Parenthood
2 Turner and Hooch
3 Lethal Weapon 2
4 When Harry Met Sally…
5 Batman
6 Lock Up
7 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
8 Young Einstein
9 Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
10 Dead Poets' Society

That's a pretty great list isn't it? This was the year that I started to go to the cinema a lot without my parents. I used to hop on the bus outside my house to the local Curzon cinema and pay £2.00 to see the new release of the week. If it was a kids film I took my two little brothers with me [I was a nice child back then...]

Batman was easily the best film of the summer. I think I went three times to see it! [Twice in one day!] I found the fact that is was the first film with a "12" rating fascinating...

When my pocket money wasn't being spent in the cinema, the Woolworths in Urmston got the rest of it. 7 inch singles in 1989 went down to £1.49 [which seems pretty expensive now!]

One song on the below list was purchased the second Woolworths opened when I also bought the cassette single and 12 inch, can you guess what it was?

1 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers Swing The Mood
2 Kylie Minogue Wouldn't Change A Thing/It's No Secret
3 Sonia You'll Never Stop Me From Loving You
4 Lil' Louis French Kiss
5 Bros Too Much
6 Gloria Estefan Don't Wanna Lose You
7 Bobby Brown On Our Own
8 Alice Cooper Poison
9 Rufus & Chaka Khan Ain't Nobody
10 London Boys London Nights
11 Bette Midler Wind Beneath My Wings
12 Kirsty MacColl Days
13 Soul II Soul Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)
14 Martika Toy Soldiers
15 Transvision Vamp Landslide Of Love
16 Inner City Do You Love What You Feel
17 Karyn White Superwoman
18 A Guy Called Gerald Voodoo Ray
19 Simple Minds Kick It In
20 Shakespear's Sister You're History
21 Simply Red A New Flame
22 The Lightning Seeds Pure
23 Paul McCartney This One
24 Gladys Knight Licence To Kill
25 Blow Monkeys featuring Sylvia Tella Choice
26 Prince Batdance
27 Pet Shop Boys It's Alright
28 Redhead Kingpin & The FBI Do The Right Thing
29 The Primitives Sick Of It
30 Dogs D'Amour Satellite Kid
31 Wendy & Lisa Satisfaction
32 Waterfront Cry
33 GUN Better Days
34 Monie Love Grandpa's Party
35 De La Soul Say No Go
36 Aswad On And On
37 Michael Jackson Liberian Girl
38 We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It Self!
39 Liza Minnelli Losing My Mind
40 The Beautiful South Song For Whoever

I think this is my favourite ever retrochart - SO many good singles. At the time I despised the number one single for obvious reasons, but today I appreciate it for what it is.

There are too many great songs to pick my favourites on this list but I'll give it a try!