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 Wednesday, and time for a midweek mood boost via three more uplifting and inspiring people making the headlines - this is The Good News Week. If you enjoy the stories we've found this week, let us know - remember this is a place for you to share any good news you find too, be … Continue reading The Good News Week (16/10/2019)
Hello one and all at the start of another new week. Even though it may be tipping it down and grey and rainy, it's not gonna bring us down - not when we've got more nuggets of gilt edged social media hilarity to get through. Yes, it's time once again for #TweetHeeHee... FUNERAL COURTEGE CURRENTLY … Continue reading #TweetHeeHee (14/10/2019)
Many of pop's greatest icons - and not so greatest, let's be honest - have put pen to paper (or commissioned a ghost writer) and told all about their struggle for success, life at the top, life thereafter, maybe even a second bite at the cherry. But no one, to our recollection, has ever written … Continue reading #CrazyStupidBook: Malcolm McLean (@maltreateddd) – ‘Freak Like Me: Confessions of a 90s Pop Groupie’
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)
As you will read in this thread we've composed on Twitter tonight, we know it's been a month since we last published one but we've not abandoned it, honest! Alas when life throws us a busy schedule sometimes we neglect things. Rest assured it will be back in the usual slot next Wednesday. Much love … Continue reading Some good news about The Good News Week
It's the first Monday of a new month, so what better way to cheer yourself up as the weather gets cooler and cloudier than with some of the funniest social media nuggets freshly mined from the last seven days? It's time to get your laughing gear on - here's #TweetHeeHee... US WHEN WE GO ON … Continue reading #TweetHeeHee (07/10/2019)
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’
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