If you're fancying yourself a trip back in time to a musical year of greatness and the biggest hits from that year, you've come to the right place - cause this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: we meet our first solo Spice Girl of this series with a Spanish influenced summer pop … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 34)
This is The Story of Pop: 1999. Every Thursday, it's your trip back in time to the UK chart movers and shakers from twenty years ago. This week: a one hit wonder from Canada that charted twice before becoming a late summer time smash... Formed in 1994, and taking their name from the Swedish liqueur … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 33)
Deconstructing the sights and sounds of the UK charts twenty years ago, this is our weekly series of posts we like to call The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: a fledgling Scottish indie rock act make the grade to the big leagues via an iconic Glastonbury performance... Some bands and artists really are the … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 32)
Taking you back to the sights and sounds of a time when a fresh faced Dermot O'Leary hosted T4 on Sunday mornings, when the London Eye was erected on the South Bank and when twittering was a noise that birds made, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: the first member of one … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 31)
It's Thursday, it's midday, and time to once again hop aboard the pop musical tardis that is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: the summer bangers of 20 years ago continue apace with one of the biggest dance hits of the year... As 1998 had been a good year to be from Ireland, 1999 … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 30)
The Story of Pop: 1999. It's the story of the UK charts, the hits that were in them and the artists that made them hits two whole decades ago. This week - another turn of the millennium R&B classic from the girl group that gave the world one of its biggest female solo superstars.... It's … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 29)
Taking a musical trip back in time to the stars and sounds of two whole decades ago, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: the UK's first ever chart topper from Puerto Rico, via a man who ushered in the big summer craze of that year... Ask the person on the street of … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 28)
