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S7E6 NOW 5 - Summer '85: Graeme Thomson
The Big Pig is back!As July, turned into August in 1985, the world was still basking in the afterglow of, what was already being called the event of the decade. No, not the ceasing production of the…
S7E5 NOW 12 - Summer '88: Tom Doyle
Oh, that’s bad!No, that’s good!If you know your 80s dancefloor bangers, you’ll recognise that S-Express vocal insert and will already be donning your sparkly bellbottoms, possibly even getting…
S7E4 NOW 37 - Summer '97: Marc Burrows
Swing it, shake it, move it, make it!…is exactly what the nation was doing in 1997. Yes, that’s right, Channel 5 was here and fiddling with that aerial to try and get a reception to see The Jack…
S7E3 NOW 10 - Autumn ‘87: Sue Charles
Welcome back to 1987!The decade of decadence, extravagance, elegance and other words that end in -nce was powering its way towards the later end of its cultural tenure. And whilst there is no doubt…
S7E2 NOW 23 - Autumn '92: Josh Widdicombe
How do you begin to describe 1992?Well, Her Majesty called it her Annus horribilis, for a number of reasons. Quite possibly including the three weeks Boyz II Men spent at number one, possibly not.…
S7E1 NOW Smash Hits of the 80s: Justin Lewis
Welcome to the utterly swingorilliant Autumn 1987! Frightwigs ahoy! Pass around the rock’n’roll mouthwash because the Ver Kids knew that pop was back, Back BACK!Actually, what this all really means…
S6E11 NOW - The Christmas Album at 40!
Welcome to a special festive episode of Back to Now. We first revisited Now - The Christmas Album in 2020. You remember 2020, don’t you? It was a Christmas that needed some light to overpower some…
S6E10 NOW Yearbook ‘80: Andrew Harrison & Mark Wood
Gonna use my…imagination.1980 saw the UK chart taking some incredible leaps forward into the new decade. As the 1970s biggest superstars, Pink Floyd, stepped aside as the last chart topper of that…
S6E9 NOW 45 - Spring '00: John Matthews
Welcome to the 21st Century!Or did you call it Y2K? And if so, can I ask WHY?Yes, pop fans and curators of variously compiled pop, we had survived the End of the Century. The millennium bug turned…
S6E8 NOW 32 - Autumn '95: Emma Harrison
Is this the way they say the future’s meant to be?It’s November 1995. Pop was pulling in many different directions. But predominantly, it was swaggering its way towards the end of the century in a…
S6E7 NOW Yearbook '79: Nick Heyward and Daryl Easlea
It’s the end, the end of the Seventies.It was a decade that had started with Edison Lighthouse and ended with Another Brick in the wall. After 221 number one singles, the decade that had given us…
S6E6 NOW Yearbook '82: Ian Wade and ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
Poor old Johnnie Ray.Actually, I wonder what the heart wrenching vocal superstar of the fifties made of his starring role in the biggest selling single of 1982, thirty years after his own chart…
S6E5 NOW 30 - Spring ‘95: Grant Stott
Wake up, it’s a beautiful morning!It’s the spring of 1995. That most eclectic of decades, the nineties if you will, was no longer the new kid on the millennial block. Pop culture has boxed up the…
S6E4 NOW 53 - Autumn ‘02: David Manero
2002. The pop culture landscape would never be the same again.No, we’re not talking about Robbie Williams £80m, six album deal (although Rudebox would indeed shift the landscape, if not exactly many…
S6E3 NOW Dance '89 - Summer '89: Joe Muggs
Can You Feel It?It’s July, 1989 and the temperature is hot! Actually, for a lot of the UK it surprisingly was, but let’s leave meteorological memories aside, we’re talking the dancefloor. The…
S6E2 NOW, That’s What I Call A Musical - Sonia
In 2025, the iconic NOW series moves into the world of musical theatre with a brand new show ‘NOW, That’s What I Call A Musical’ delivering a storyline that ties friendship and incredible 80s pop…
S6E1 NOW 40 - Summer ‘98: Rob Johnson
The United Kingdom in Summer 1998 was an interesting place indeed.In June, the DVD was released for the first time and presumably the first person to ignore random extras, interviews and photo…
S5E11 The Back To Now Review - 2024
Welcome, everyone, to the Back to Now review for 2024!Following in the well-loved festive traditions such as fingering your way through the double edition Radio Times, fumbling your way to the back…
S5E10 NOW 33 - Spring ‘96: Neil Collins
Ideas, experiments, imagination.So, what was the optimum Britpop™️ year? Academics, thinkers and BBC documentary makers have wrestled over this question for many a year. Possibly even as long as it…
S5E9 NOW Yearbook ‘81: ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
Dylan Jones once described the Eighties as being shaped by ‘a new type of bohemianism, one empowered by a certainty and an optimism that was only fleeting back in the sixties.’ *Moreso, K.Tel records…
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