Brisbane FM 104 Rock Album Charts April 1987

This is from the Telegraph April 2nd 1987 and this is the Brisbane FM 104 Top 15 album charts with The Bangles at number 1 with Different Light which including the hit singles Manic Monday and Walk Like A Egyptian, Pal Simon at number 2 with Graceland which had the hit singles You Can Call Me Al, The Boy In The Bubble, Graceland and Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes, John Farnham at number 3 with Whispering Jack which had the singles You're The Voice, Pressure Down, A Touch Of Paradise and Reasons, Bon Jovi at number 4 with Slippery When Wet which had the hit singles You Give Love A Bad Name, Livin On A Prayer and Wanted Dead or Alive and U2 at number 5 with Joshua Tree which had the hit singles With Or Without You, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and Where Streets Have No Name. The new entry to the charts that week was the album Invisble Touch by Genesis which had the hit singles the title track, In Too Deep, Throwing It All Away, Land Of Confusion and Tonight Tonight Tonight and the other albums in the charts that week were the self titled album by the Cockroaches at number 7 which was produced by Charles Fisher who worked with Ol'55 and Savage Garden and had the hit singles Wait Up, She's the One, Some Kind Of Girl and Double Shot, The Angels at number 10 with Howling which had the hit singles Nature Of the Beast, Don;t Waste My Time, their version of the Animals 1965 hit We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place and Can't Take Any More and The The at number 15 with Infected which had the hit singles the title track, Heartland, Slow Train To Dawn and Sweet Bird Of Truth.

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