Pie Jesu – Sarah Brightman And Paul Miles-Kingston

Sarah Brightman teamed up with Paul Miles-Kingston in 1985 to take this track into the UK top 10 for four weeks.

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This week in 1985, Pie Jesu by Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston was at its highest position of number 3 in the UK singles chart for the second of two weeks, having entered the top 40 two weeks previously at number 14. After falling from its peak position, the song stayed in the top 10 for another two weeks, one of them in the top 5, and then slipped into the lower top 40 for the final two weeks of its chart life.

Pie Jesu was released on the HMV record label and was the second of six UK top 10 hits for Sarah Brightman and the only one for Paul Miles-Kingston. It was taken from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem, which peaked at number 4 in the UK album chart. The single was certified silver.

More music from Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston

 

UK singles chart for the week ending 6 April 1985

1. Easy lover – Philip Bailey (duet with Phil Collins)

2. Welcome to the pleasuredome – Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3. Pie Jesu – Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston

4. That ole devil called love – Alison Moyet

5. Everybody wants to rule the world – Tears For Fears

6. We close our eyes – Go West

7. Every time you go away – Paul Young

8. Do what you do – Jermaine Jackson

9. Wide boy – Nik Kershaw

10. Kiss me – Stephen ‘Tin Tin’ Duffy

 

16. Cover me – Bruce Springsteen

 

26. Shakespeare’s sister – Smiths