Hello and welcome to this week's Pop Essays, your weekly series where we bring new light to those forgotten pop gems of years gone by. This week: anyone fancy a British invasion of America? Then read on... Artist: BBMak Song: Back Here Release Date: 16/08/1999 (Original) / 12/02/2001 (Reissue) Writers: Christian Burns / Mark Barry … Continue reading Pop Essays #8: BBMak, ‘Back Here’
Firstly a happy new year to you all, albeit one that seems to be starting suspiciously just as the last one did globally speaking. But no matter, I'm a firm believer, in the words of D:Ream, that things can only get better. Especially as today, I write both my first blog post of 2021 and … Continue reading Pop Essays #1: Ultra, ‘Rescue Me’
For all my yearly rewatches of Bernard and the Genie, The Holiday and the Christmas episodes of The Vicar of Dibley, there are some Christmas films or shows of yore I'd maybe forgotten about but loved at the time, and I am only just now rediscovering. Such is the case with Robbie the Reindeer. Partly … Continue reading Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire – the lost gem of Christmas films
It's Thursday, it's midday, and - sadly - it's time for the last installment of The Story of Pop: 1999. Over the last 12 months on this here blog, we've retold the story of the songs and the artists that were riding high at the top of the UK charts twenty years ago, but today … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 51)
OK. So we're not quite done yet. As a little thank you for all the lovely feedback I've had on this series, here's one more special post for you. A collection of 12 songs that were also hits in 1999, which I didn't have time for on the main series. Among this list, you'll find … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 – Bonus Tracks
Welcome to the penultimate installment of The Story of Pop: 1999, our weekly series on the blog where we recount all the UK singles chart's hot movers and shakers from two whole decades ago. This week: a UK garage anthem that defined a generation - and launched the career of one young bright thing from … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 50)
It's Thursday, it's midday, and time to once again see what was storming the UK charts two whole decades ago, with The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: the launch of three feisty Liverpool lasses as they sunk their claws into the top 10... The pop explosion that the Spice Girls had started was still … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 49)
If you're fancying a trip back to what was tearing up the UK charts as the London Eye was being erected on the South Bank, or as the latest James Bond film hit the big screen (The World Is Not Enough), then you've come to the right place, as we bring you another chapter from … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 48)
Welcome to this week's installment of The Story of Pop: 1999, the weekly retelling of all the UK singles chart action from two whole decades ago. This week: our last chart topper this series to come from clubland... Well. I tell a slight lie there. We do have one more dancefloor oriented record to cover … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 47)
It's midday, it's Thursday, and time as always for us to hop aboard our little musical pre-Y2K pop tardis we like to call The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: a second chart topper for a man who had one of the top 10 biggest selling albums for two years running... At the start of … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 46)
