Revisiting the UK chart hits from the year Jamie Oliver made his TV debut in The Naked Chef, and when Zoe Ball got engaged to a certain Mr Fatboy Slim, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week - a former resident of Britain's most famous town square bursts the soap bubble and pops … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 15)
Welcome once again to The Story of Pop: 1999, our weekly series where we set the musical Wayback machine to 1999, and revisit the stars and the hits that were making the UK charts. And this week - if you've been waiting for some good old, honest rock music from the Valleys, then boy you're … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 14)
Flashing back to the UK chart hits of a time when wrap around skirts and trousers were an in thing and when The Blair Witch Project haunted cinema goers with wobbly camera angles and bobble hats, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week - a monster chart topper courtesy of a well known … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 13)
It's Thursday, meaning that it's time for us, as always, to throw things back two decades to the hits and hitmakers of the pre-Y2K charts. This is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: four girls from Dublin make chart history - and cement their place in the record books in the process... In less … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 12)
The Story of Pop: 1999. It's the story, week by week, of the songs and stars that were riding high in the UK charts twenty years ago this very week. We continue onwards and into double figures, and this week - a comeback and then some from one of the greatest female vocalists of all … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 11)
Welcome to another installment of The Story of Pop: 1999, our weekly look back to the UK chart hits of 20 years ago. And it seems quite fitting that this week, with Red Nose Day for Comic Relief just around the corner again next Friday, that we profile one of its former fundraising hits... It … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 10)
Sometimes to understand pop now, you need to look back at what it was then. Or so a wise man once wrote. This is The Story of Pop: 1999, and time once again to bring you another huge UK chart hit from exactly 20 years ago. This week: the 19th top 40 single from some … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 9)
It was the year of SM:TV Live on Saturday mornings, Pokemon cards in the school playground, and a solar eclipse. Oh - and also the year of some stellar pop music. This is The Story of Pop: 1999, our new weekly look back at the biggest UK chart hits of 20 years ago. This week: … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 8)
It's time once again to head back two whole decades to a different time in pop music, as we bring you another installment of The Story of Pop: 1999. And you won't believe who's next for us to cover in the story... Since he got his breakthrough producing Madonna's 1990 hit 'Justify My Love', soul/funk/rock … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 7)
It's Thursday, and time once again for another slice of retro chart pop action from twenty years ago, with The Story of Pop: 1999. This week's song comes from a band who made an unexpected comeback in style - let's see who they are and the chart topper that did it for them... Fronted by … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 6)
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