Paul Hardcastle (London, 10 december 1957) is a British composer and musician, specializing in the synthesizer. In the early 1980s, he was a member of the dance group Direct Drive and First Light, before deciding on a solo career. In 1985 , he scored in Great Britain and Netherlands a number-1-hit with the song a dance plate 19, in which samples were processed by a TV documentary about Viet Nam war veterans suffering from the post-traumatic stress disorder. The number 19 refers to the average age of the American soldiers during the Viet Nam war. This lag that is lower than that of the Second World War, there were the soldiers on average 26 years old.
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Discography[Edit][]
Albums[Edit][]
| Album (s) with any charts in the
the Dutch Album Top 100 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daybreak | 1984 | - | |||
| Zero one | 1985 | - | |||
| Paul Hardcastle | 1985 | - | |||
| No winners | 1988 | - | |||
| Sound syndicate | 1990 | - | |||
| The definitive | 1993 | - | |||
| First light | 1997 | - | |||
| Cover to cover: A musical autobiography | 1999 | - | |||
| The very best of Paul Hardcastle 1983-2003 | 2003 | - | Compilation album | ||
| Zero one | 2009 | - |
Singles[Edit][]
| Single (s) with any charts in the
the Dutch Top 40 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You're the one for me-Daybreak-A.M. | 1984 | - | |||
| Guilty | 1984 | - | |||
| Rainforest | 1984 | - | |||
| Eat your heart out | 1984 | - | |||
| 19 | 1985 | 18-05-1985 | 1 (3 wk) | 15 | No. 1 in the Single Top 100 |
| Just for money | 1985 | - | |||
| Don't waste my time | 1986 | 22-03-1986 | 11 | 9 | No. 12 in the Single Top 100 |
| Foolin' yourself | 1986 | - | |||
| The wizard | 1986 | - | |||
| Walk in the night | 1988 | - | |||
| 40 Years | 1988 | - |
| Single (s) with chart positions
in the Flemish Ultratop 50 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1985 | - | No. 1 in the Radio 2 Top 30 | ||
| Don't waste my time | 1986 | - | No. 16 in the Radio 2 Top 30 |
Radio 2 Top 2000[Edit][]
| Number (s) with markings
in the Radio 2 Top 2000 |
' 99 | ' 00 | ' 01 | ' 02 | ' 03 | ' 04 | ' 05 | ' 06 | ' 07 | ' 08 | ' 09 | ' 10 | ' 11 | ' 12 | ' 13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | - | 1343 | 1564 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1868 |