Last Updated: 10 November, 2002

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GRANGE HILL SIGNATURE TUNE

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: THE ALBUM
	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 as follows:

SIDE ONE		SIDE TWO
YOU KNOW THE TEACHER (SMASH HEAD) John McMahon, George Christopher GIRLS LIKE TO DO IT TOO Ruth Carraway, Samantha Lewis, Fleur Taylor SCHOOL LOVE Alison Bettles NO SUPERVISION AT BREAK John Drummond BIOLOGY Ricky Simmonds JUST SAY NO Entire Cast		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 LADS' MEDLEY Ricky Simmonds, John Drummond, Simon Vaughan, Tim Polley I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS Ricky Simmonds GIRLS' MEDLEY Amma Asante, Alison Bettles, Lisa York GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN Fleur Taylor THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL/ THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Entire Cast

JUST SAY NO!

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, and reached No. in the charts.

SMASH HEAD (YOU KNOW THE TEACHER)

Later in 1986 Grange Hill released another single - Gonch and Ziggy's tribute to the inimitable Mr Bronson! A 12" was also available.

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A good second-hand record shop may have copies of these records.

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