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
Ernest Hardcastle Ernest Hardcastle Lieutenant Ernest Hardcastle (31 December 1898 – November 1973) was an English World War I flying ace observer/gunner credited with twelve aerial victories. He would return to military service during World War II. Ernest Hardcastle was born on 31 December 1898 in Dudley Hill, Bradford, England. Hardcastle worked for the Bradford Chamber of Commerce until World War I began. He enlisted in the Yorkshire Regiment, but transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in August 1917, and after initial training as a cadet, was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant (on probation) on 30 January 1918. He was assigned