charts

[kopboy]

title and year of the last instrumentle to reach no1 in the uk charts

[kempie]

Possibly that heinous insult to all things musical "Axel F" by Crazy Frog in June 2005.

[kopboy]

thanks kempie, and i do agree with you

[Postdog]

Was that an instrumental though, in the true sense I mean. If you don't include that, I suppose the next previous one would be the birdy song by the tweets in 1981 (though, again, could that be classed as truly instrumental?), and I think the one before that which WAS truly instrumental was the Simon Park Orchestra with "Eye Level" in 1973.

[kempie]

I believe that Tweets' "Birdie Song" (God help us!!) only reached No.2

[littleoldme]

I think Postdog's right in that the Crazy Frog monstrosity doesn't really count as an instrumental. It may not have any real words, but it does have a vocal of a sort.

I guess the last true instrumental to hit number 1 was Flat Beat by Mr Oizo in 1999. It did have a brief sample of speech at the very start, but there was no vocal accompanying the "melody" (for want of a better word).

[kopboy]

thanks to all, there seems to be a difference of opinion as to what is an instrumental? what about a group called DOOP march 1994?