Paul Hardcastle "Billboard" Hot 100. Hardcastle is best known for the 1985 single "19", which went to No.1 in the UK (for five weeks), a number of other countries worldwide, and reached number 15 in the US Pop Charts and number 1 in the US Dance and Club charts. The follow-up single to "19" was "Just For Money", which reached No. 19 in the UK. It also charted in several other European countries. In 1986, Hardcastle released a remix to "One Wish" by Hiroshima. In the same year, Hardcastle's "The Wizard" was adopted as the theme tune for the BBC's Top of
William Hardcastle (broadcaster) William Hardcastle (broadcaster) William Hardcastle (26 March 1918 – 10 November 1975) was a British journalist, editor of the "Daily Mail" and first presenter of the lunchtime news programme "The World at One" on BBC Radio. Hardcastle was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and educated at the Newcastle Preparatory School and Durham School. His early intention to follow his father into the medical profession was thwarted when he contracted osteomyelitis as a fifteen-year-old, and in 1938 he joined the "Shields Gazette" as a reporter. Unfit for active service, Hardcastle remained a journalist throughout the Second World War, moving in turn