Actors moonlighting as pop stars wasn’t strictly an 80s development. Who can forget Telly ‘Kojak’ Savalas’ hitting No.1 in 1975 with his erm, interesting, spoken-word rendition of If, for example? But it was the following decade where pretty muchevery other thespian – from soap opera regulars to Hollywood A-listers – who could hold a note seemed to make a bid for the charts. Ignoring anyone already renowned as a double threat at the time, here’s a countdown of the era’s most listenable (and a few unlistenable) side hustles.