The Story of Pop: 1999. It's the series, every Thursday at midday here on the blog, where we take you back to the sights and sounds of the UK charts as we bade goodbye to an old millennium and welcomed in a new one. This week: seventh time's the charm for one of Britain's biggest … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 44)
ARTIST: B*Witched SONG: Hold On SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? What are they loike? Five years on from their (actually quite briliant) self released EP 'Champagne or Guinness', the B*Witched ladies have returned with a cover of a song you're surprised they hadn't seen sense to do so before now. … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: B*Witched – ‘Hold On’
It's midday, it's Thursday, and that can mean only one thing - time for another installment of The Story of Pop: 1999, our weekly look back at the biggest hits from the year we all went Y2K crazy. This week: one of that autumn's biggest singles that launched the career of this gravelly voiced soul … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 43)
ARTIST: DJ Spoony presents Garage Classical feat. Sugababes SONG: Flowers SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Where art thou the class of BBC Radio 1 from 1999? If you're Sara Cox or Zoë Ball, you're probably the sound of Britain that listens to Radio 2 getting up in the morning or … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: DJ Spoony presents Garage Classical feat. Sugababes – ‘Flowers’
Bringing you more hits from a year packed full of them like a Y2K party popper, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: a British R&B girl group with a history as prolific as their late 90s hits were... There's a history lesson in more ways than one for our featured act today, … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 42)
It's Thursday, so that means it's time once again for this week's installment of The Story of Pop: 1999, where we revisit all the big chart smashes and the artists that made them hits from twenty years ago. We're onto our last ten entries of the series now can you believe it - and this … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 41)
ARTIST: Niall Horan SONG: Nice To Meet Ya SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? I think it's worth having a customary refresh of my closing words on my review of 'Flicker', Niall Horan's debut solo album exactly two years ago: 'When, in a year or two from now, as with Take … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Niall Horan – ‘Nice To Meet Ya’
This is The Story of Pop: 1999. It's the story, telling you, week by week, of all the UK chart movers and shakers of two whole decades ago. So if you were wondering what song about the sun shining connected with last week's hit from Bob Marley, a hearty congratulations to you if you said … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 40)
ARTIST: Now United SONG: Crazy Stupid Silly Love SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? It's been just over a year since we first wrote about Now United, the fourteen membered(!) mixed gender pop combo that are the latest brainchild of one Simon Fuller (and if you don't know who that is … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Now United – ‘Crazy Stupid Silly Love’
Packed with more UK chart hits from two decades ago than a Y2K party popper, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: a reggae music legend is bought onto the dancefloors of the new millennium... A long standing icon in the world of reggae music, Bob Marley, with his band The Wailers, had … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 39)
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