Chart Review 21st March 2005 with DJ Chris Plant (1/3)	(1/3), (2/3), (3/3).
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In the land of eternal cabaret, Tony Christie is a God. Although never quite in the same league as the likes of Englebert Humperdinck or Tom Jones, the singer had a brief flowering of fame in the early 1970s going Top 10 in 1971 with murderers lament What I Did For Maria. After the hits and bookings dried up he retired to Spain but his kitsch appeal remained, no better illustration of this being his 1999 comeback when Pulp's Jarvis Cocker wrote Walk Like A Panther for him, his guest vocals on the All Seeing I hit helping to take the track to Number 10.

Another celebrity fan of his is comedian Peter Kay who for a long time has used his 1971 Number 18 hit (Is This The Way To) Amarillo as a kind of unofficial theme song, playing the sing along classic at the start of live concerts to rev the crowd up.

For a long time there was talk of cashing in on this by re-releasing the track. All that was needed was the opportunity. Enter the Comic Relief appeal for which Kay filmed a new video for the track which features him miming to the track whilst a galaxy of stars appear marching behind him (Christie himself making a brief cameo appearance). The premiere of the video was easily one of the highlights of the TV appeal and when the single was released a massive sale was pretty much assured. So it is that 34 years after he first recorded it, Amarillo gives Tony Christie a very welcome Number One hit.

For the second week running Comic Relief provides the biggest selling single of the week and for the second week in a row as well the Number One hit becomes the fastest selling single of the year, sales of the track having soared well into six figures in a welcome change from the miserable levels we have witnessed since January. Peter Kay gets a chart credit on the single but his sole contribution is his starring role in the video (featured neatly on the DVD single) - quite rightly the plaudits have gone to Tony Christie and the return of his long lost classic. All together now: sha-la-la la la la la la.

Whilst one single release has overshadowed all the others this week, that hasn't stopped the chart seeing a frantic rate of turnover and yet again seven new singles all debut inside the Top 10. The second biggest of these goes to Elvis who just for a change has the second biggest re-release of the week. She's Not You originally topped the charts for The King in September 1962 and was his third Number One hit of the year. For the moment Elvis could do no wrong charts-wise but fate and Colonel Tom were about to ensure that this situation was not going to last.

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