Steve 'Silk' Hurley's Jack Your Body is No 1 in the UK

18 January 1987: Number 14 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicWhile Farley "Jackmaster" Funk's Love Can't Turn Around had climbed to No 10 in 1986, it was in 1987 that dance stormed the charts. Steve "Silk" Hurley's Jack Your Body was the first to hit No 1. It arrived with no promotion, a video that was cut from old black and white films and barely any lyrics. The similarly anonymous Pump Up the Volume by M/A/R/R/S also charted at No 1 on 27 September – one of the ...

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