Selecting up more huge hits from the UK charts of 25 years ago, this is The Story of Pop: 1998. This week: time to get down from your treehouse sitting in the sky, for our first hugely successful encounter with a denim clad Irish girl group... Artist: B*Witched Song: C'est La Vie Released: 25/05/1998 Writers … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 22)
Continuing to revisit and retell the story behind the year's biggest chart hits from 25 years ago, this is The Story of Pop: 1998. And this week, we ask one of the charts' most important questions of that year: what is she gonna look like with a chimney on her? Artist: The Tamperer feat. Maya … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 21)
Presenting more golden UK chart smashes from 25 years ago, this is The Story of Pop: 1998. And here comes another massive hit from the British hit parade of a quarter of a century ago... Artist: Lutricia McNeal Song: Stranded Released: 11/05/1998 Writers / Producers: Rami Yacoub / Daniel Papalexis / Josef Larossi Highest UK … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 20)
Giving you yet more retro chart action from a quarter of a century ago, every Thursday at 9am, this is The Story of Pop: 1998. This week: another film soundtrack chart topper with the third number one in a row from Denmark's biggest Europop exponents... Artist: Aqua Song: Turn Back Time Released: 04/05/1998 Writers / … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 19)
Join us as we continue to revisit all the biggest UK chart hits from a quarter of a century ago with The Story of Pop: 1998. This week - a second chart topper for these ladies, offering up two unlikely covers for the price of one... Artist: All Saints Song: Under The Bridge / Lady … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 18)
This week's instalment of The Story of Pop: 1998 - where we revisit all the biggest hits and stars behind them 25 years ago - is rather fittingly being written whilst the present writer is staying in Cardiff. Why, I hear you ask? Well, better read on... Artist: Catatonia Song: Road Rage Released: 20/04/1998 Writers … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 17)
Returning back to the sights and sounds of the UK charts as they looked exactly 25 years ago, this is The Story of Pop: 1998. And after a solid month of mid-tempos and ballads, we are firing things up again with one of the biggest hip hop records of the year... Artist: Busta Rhymes Song: … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 16)
Here, every Thursday at 9am, is our weekly rewind to the UK charts as they looked exactly 25 years ago, with The Story of Pop: 1998. And this week, it's one of the most romantic sounding singles of the year from one of Australia's biggest musical exports... Artist: Savage Garden Song: Truly Madly Deeply Released: … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 15)
This is The Story of Pop: 1998, continuing to offer up our weekly revisit, hit by hit, and artist by artist, of the UK singles chart as it looked 25 years ago. And here comes another memorable chart smash from 1998... Artist: Billie Myers Song: Kiss The Rain Released: 30/03/1998 Writers / Producers: Billie Myers … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 14)
Bringing you more hits from the year the Millennium Dome started to take shape in North Greenwich, when F1 racing driver George Russell was born, and when the final episode of Chigwell set sitcom Birds of a Feather was broadcast on BBC One, this is The Story of Pop: 1998. This week: the extraordinary story … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 13)
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