One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg

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One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg: Room 5, The La’s and Mental As Anything

Room 5, The La’s and Mental As Anything

BBC Radio 2 - One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg, Room 5, The La’s and Mental As Anything

The best One Hit Wonders, plus a chat with Reg and Peter from Mental As Anything.

The best One Hit Wonders, plus Reg and Peter from Mental As Anything with the story of ‘Live It Up’.

OJ plays some of the best One Hit Wonders from right across the decades. 

This week he chats to brothers Reg and Peter from Mental As Anything.

Their biggest UK hit was ‘Live It Up’, which reached number 3 in 1987. 

Find out about what they thought of the UK and Top Of The Pops, and the role Crocodile Dundee played in the song being such a big hit!

Want to hear your favourite One Hit Wonder on the show? 

Email OJ@bbc.co.uk.

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