2000: The Year In Music

2000 – India’s population officially reaches one billion. The US election between Bush and Gore is inconclusive, eventually resolved by the supreme court. Metallica files a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster … and Lil Pump was born, ushering in a new golden age for music in the new millennium! I’ll be looking at theContinue reading “2000: The Year In Music”

1999: The Year In Music

1999 – US President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial. The Columbine High School massacre kills 13 and injures 24 people. The six billionth living human in the world is born. The Sopranos debuts on HBO. Lance Armstrong wins his first of seven consecutive Tour de France titles. I gotContinue reading “1999: The Year In Music”

1998: The Year In Music

1998 – Iran and Iraq begin a ceasefire in their eight-year-old war. Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, effectively head of state of the Soviet Union. Benazir Bhutto is named Prime Minister of Pakistan, the first female leader of a Muslim country. A mixed bag of news … so let’sContinue reading “1998: The Year In Music”

1997: The Year In Music

1997 – Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos. Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs interim CEO. Princess Diana dies in a car crash in Paris. The UK returns Hong Kong and the New Territories to the People’s Republic of China.Continue reading “1997: The Year In Music”

Top 10 Simon & Garfunkel Songs

I’m on a bit of a Simon & Garfunkel binge at the moment – their incredible songwriting and overlapping vocals are hitting that sweet spot for me right now. This’ll be a quick one today, as I wanted to highlight my ten favourite tracks of theirs at the moment. Before we begin, you can checkContinue reading “Top 10 Simon & Garfunkel Songs”

1996: The Year In Music

1996 – Pokemon appears for the first time in the role-playing videogame “Pocket Monsters Red and Green” for Game Boy in Japan. The 6,138th performance of “Cats” is held in London, surpassing the record of Broadway’s longest-running musical “A Chorus Line”. Tupac Shakur is shot and killed in Las Vegas. Not much happened this yearContinue reading “1996: The Year In Music”

1995: The Year In Music

1995 – More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. “Toy Story”, the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery, is released. A mixed bagContinue reading “1995: The Year In Music”

Rick and Morty – Season 7 Episodes Ranked

New season, new voice actors – a lot of people were ready to scrutinise Season 7 of Rick and Morty after all of the controversies, but in the end I think this was a season to be proud of. But it wasn’t without its faults … how would I rank every episode? Before we begin,Continue reading “Rick and Morty – Season 7 Episodes Ranked”

1993: The Year In Music

1993 – Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves the last theorem of French mathematician Pierre de Fermat after 356 years – the world’s most difficult maths problem. The Oslo Accords, an Israel-Palestinian peace agreement, is unveiled. Good to see thatContinue reading “1993: The Year In Music”

1991: The Year In Music

1991 – The Gulf War ends after Iraq accepts a ceasefire following their retreat from Kuwait. A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district in Bangladesh, killing 139,000 people and leaving 10 million homeless. Pablo Escobar surrenders to police. The climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano occurs in the Philippines – the second-largest volcanic eruption ofContinue reading “1991: The Year In Music”