That's because you had to sell more than 25 records to get there.
Today is one number tomorrow, down to number 50 next week, forgotton the week after. It very rare now to for a number one not to enter the charts at number one. Then it only happened once a decade back then.
I did about fours years ago, from playing tennis, I started wearing an elbow support with magnets in to play in, which I found helped at lot, not sure if the magnets did actually do anything though.
I then changed my tennis racket and it went away. Haven't had a problem since.
What with a choice of two main line stations and two underground stations with numerous trains an hour compared to one short station with a handful if trains an hour, yes very comparable :facepalm: