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“Dickie Davies Eyes” by Half Man Half Biscuit
From the album ACD (1986)
“Dickie Davies Eyes” by Half Man Half Biscuit appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1986. It was first released in 1986 on the album ACD. Its best result is #39 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1986. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #162 alternative song of 1986.
Half Man Half Biscuit put out "Dickie Davies Eyes" as a single in 1986, and the gag is right there in the title: a swipe at Kim Carnes' 1981 single "Bette Davis Eyes", rerouted to Dickie Davies, who fronted World of Sport on British telly from the late '60s until 1985. Nigel Blackwell wrote it, words and music, and The Bald Brothers, Geoff Davies and Sam Davis, produced it, with Roger Boden engineering.
The seven-inch carried "I Left My Heart in Papworth General" on the flip, and the 12-inch EP added "The Bastard Son of Dean Friedman". It topped the UK Indie chart while scraping in at 86 on the national singles chart that October, and later resurfaced on Back Again in the DHSS. When Davies died in 2023, it charted again, spending one week at number 32 that August.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 39 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1986 | 50 |
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