Despite announcing his retirement when he was 27, Rick continued to make music – and now has just hit the top of the UK singles chart.
As a last parting gift, Mandela has brought the world’s attention to Cape Town – this time for a good reason. His death has inspired thousands of people the world over to make a sort of pilgrimage to South Africa – and this is backed up by The New York Times placing Cape Town as the number one city to visit in 2014.
On the Andrew scale of brilliance this rates a 987.2. On the pages pages that follow you can listen to brief clips of every number one song listed up to 2011.