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Haircut 100
Band Beckenham United Kingdom Formed 1980
Haircut 100 formed in 1980 in Beckenham, United Kingdom. Haircut 100 has 50 chart appearances on 37 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 1982–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Love Plus One”, which appears on 34 lists with a best position of #26. The station that charted Haircut 100 most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 16 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1982.
Haircut 100 were the sunniest thing in British pop in 1982, a band playing breezy, bouncy funk-pop with a saxophone that never stopped smiling. Nick Heyward, Les Nemes and Graham Jones started the group in Beckenham in 1980, with Heyward singing, Nemes on bass and Jones on guitar, and Blair Cunningham on drums, Marc Fox on percussion and Phil Smith on saxophone rounding out the sound.
Pelican West came out on Polydor in 1982 and it is wall-to-wall charm. Across 1981 and 1982 they took 4 singles into the UK top 10: "Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)", a jittery, jangling dance number, "Love Plus One", with its skipping rhythm, "Nobody's Fool" and "Fantastic Day".
Heyward left in 1983 and the rest carried on into 1984 before calling it a day. The original lineup got back together in 2004, and Heyward, Jones, Cunningham and Fox reunited again from 2009 to 2013.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Haircut 100 on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Love Plus One | 34 | #26 | – | 1982 | |
| 2 | Favorite Shirts | 8 | #74 | – | 1982 | |
| 3 | Favourite Shirts | 5 | #154 | – | – | |
| 4 | Fantastic Day | 3 | #279 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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