Dickie Valentine television Director). Dickie Valentine married the actress Wendy Wayne in 1968. Prior to the car accident, Wayne and Valentine were scheduled to undertake a twenty-week summer season at the Water Splash in Jersey. Dickie Valentine Dickie Valentine (4 November 1929 – 6 May 1971) was an English pop singer in the 1950s. In addition to several other Top Ten hit singles, Valentine had two chart-toppers on the UK Singles Chart with "Finger of Suspicion" (1954) and the seasonal "Christmas Alphabet" (1955). Valentine was born Richard Maxwell in 1929 (his birth father was Dickie Maxwell) in Marylebone, London. He was known
Lists of UK Albums Chart number ones Lists of UK Albums Chart number ones This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Albums Chart, from its inception in 1956 to the present. The sources are the "Record Mirror" chart from 1956 to the end of 1958, the "Melody Maker" chart from November 1958 to March 1960, the "Record Retailer" chart from March 1960 to March 1972 and the "Music Week" chart from then onwards. In January 1989 the compilation album chart started, and compilation albums were excluded from the main chart. The first number one album was Frank Sinatra's "Songs for Swingin' Lovers".