The 80s was a decade of firsts. Never before had a television channel given up virtually all of its schedule to one event, but that's what the BBC did in the summer of 1985.

In this post we’ll be looking at some classic songs that only reached Number 3 in the UK music charts in the 1980s. Some of them you might have thought ranked higher, but in reality they maxed out in third position when they were released. Some of them might surprise you.