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GRANGE HILL SIGNATURE TUNE (1979)
The original theme tune - "Chicken Man" by Alan Hawkshaw - was released as a single in 1979 and 1980. It was issued on the BBC label, cat no. RESL 64.
Grange Hill Theme Tune

 

Grange Hill - The Album
GRANGE HILL - THE ALBUM (1986)
It was bound to happen sooner or later, and in 1986 it did. The cast of Grange Hill released an album. Half of the songs were specially composed observations about school life, side two consisted of well-known standards.

Steve Wright, who composed the Brookside theme tune, penned the specially-written songs with Phil Redmond. The track listing is below; "School Love" sung by Alison Bettles encapsulates the doomed affair on-screen between Fay and Mr King.
SIDE ONE SIDE TWO
1 YOU KNOW THE TEACHER (SMASH HEAD)
John McMahon, George Christopher 		1 DON'T STOP
Amma Asante, Alison Bettles, John Drummond, Simone Hyams, Samantha Lewis, Lee MacDonald, Alison McLaughlin, Erkan Mustafa, Tim Polley, Ricky Simmonds, Simon Vaughan, Lisa York
2 GIRLS LIKE TO DO IT TOO
Ruth Carraway, Samantha Lewis, Fleur Taylor		 2 LADS' MEDLEY
Ricky Simmonds, John Drummond, Simon Vaughan, Tim Polley
3 SCHOOL LOVE
Alison Bettles		 3 I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS
Ricky Simmonds
4 NO SUPERVISION AT BREAK
John Drummond		 4 GIRLS' MEDLEY
Amma Asante, Alison Bettles, Lisa York
5 BIOLOGY
Ricky Simmonds		 5 GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN
Fleur Taylor
6 JUST SAY NO
Entire Cast		 6 THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL
THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR
Entire Cast

 

Just Say No single cover
JUST SAY NO - THE SINGLE (1986)
As a tie-in with the storyline of Zammo's heroin addiction, the cast of Grange Hill recorded the anti-drugs anthem "Just Say No" and released it as a single in April 1986. Again it was on the BBC label, cat no. RESL 183, and reached No. in the charts.

Listen to Just Say No! here! Click the speaker icon to download an MP3.

 

SMASH HEAD (YOU KNOW THE TEACHER) (1986)
Later in 1986 Grange Hill released another single - Gonch and Ziggy tackling with humour the subject of teachers attacking pupils. A 12" was also available.
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