Hot Chocolate, ‘No Doubt About It’: Britain’s UFO flap year
Britain’s favourite funk band spent 1980 talking about UFOs. So did everyone else.
1994
Corona, ‘The Rhythm of the Night’: When did men stop dancing?
Straight men are sometimes reluctant to get on the dancefloor. Why is that?
Shampoo, ‘Trouble’: Who was the third member of Shampoo?
Shampoo released a perfect album, changed the world, and then vanished. But who was behind their success?
Manchester United, ‘Come On You Reds’: How Man U became pop icons
Football changed drastically in the 90s, allowing people like David Beckham to become pop culture icons.
Stiltskin, ‘Inside’: The rapid rise (and rapid fall) of Stiltskin
How Inside by Stiltskin became the first original hit song from a Levi’s ad.
Crash Test Dummies, ‘Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm’: The monster behind most novelty songs
How notorious British impresario Johnathan King helped Crash Test Dummies to an unlikely success
Hole, ‘Miss World’: What Courtney did next
Kurt Cobain died just as Courtney Love and Hole were launching Live Through This. What happened next?
Beck, ‘Loser’: How Beck emerged from NY’s antifolk scene
The lo-fi local scene that gave us Beck and many others
The Cranberries, ‘Linger’: In search of of Dolores O’Riordan
The first kiss that inspired ‘Linger’
Snoop Doggy Dogg, ‘Gin & Juice’: When Snoop terrified Britain
Britain was terrified of Snoop Doggy Dogg in 1994…until the Queen stepped in
Cher with Beavis and Butt-Head, ‘I Got You Babe’: Beavis and Butt-Head Do The Charts
When MTV hit a crossroads, two idiots helped save the network.
Pearl Jam, ‘Daughter’: Eddie Vedder and life after Kurt
Did Courtney Love really say “It should have been Eddie”?