Welcome to 1992
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Hello, and thanks for joining us at This Week in the 90s. Each week, we’ll be looking through the UK Top 40 from exactly three decades ago.
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Now, you need some tunes. You’ll find a running Spotify playlist here. Each week, we’ll add the latest songs from the newsletter.
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Finally, if you want to catch up on the story of 1992, here’s a list of all the posts so far.
January 1992
Wet Wet Wet, plus Right Said Fred, Hammer, Senseless Things, Kiss, and Lush
The Sugarcubes, plus The Prodigy, The Wedding Present, Paula Abdul, and Tori Amos
The Beautiful South, plus Genesis, Des’ree, Diana Ross, Carter USM, and Lou Reed
Kylie Minogue, plus 2 Unlimited, The Wonder Stuff, Kicks Like a Mule, Daisy Chainsaw, and The Magnetic Fields
February 1992
Shakespear’s Sister, plus The Pasadenas, Primal Scream, Ce Ce Penistion, Manic Street Preachers, Cicero, and Lush
Ride, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Michael Jackson, The Temptations, The Wedding Present, Definition of Sound, Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Sultans of Ping F.C., and Cowboy Junkies
Shanice, Bryan Adams, Rozalla, Tears For Fears, Everything But The Girl, Army of Lovers, and Manic Street Preachers
Pearl Jam, Inspiral Carpets, Alison Limerick, Michael Bolton, Sounds of Blackness, Billy Bragg, and Pantera
March 1992
Opus III, Guns N’Roses, The KLF, Curve, Toxic Two, M People, and Pearl Jam
U2, Crowded House, Nirvana, Madness, The Wedding Present, Mass Order, and Body Count
Mr. Big, Bruce Springsteen, Liquid, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shawn Christopher, The Lightning Seeds, and Ride
Right Said Fred, Eric Clapton, Ce Ce Peniston, The Cure, Annie Lennox, Erasure, Spinal Tap, and k.d. lang
Def Leppard, Soul II Soul, W.A.S.P., Prince, Manic Street Preachers, Praga Khan, and Bruce Springsteen
April 1992
Mr Bean & Bruce Dickinson, Vanessa Williams, Altern 8, ZZ Top, Soundgarden, Blur, and P.J. Harvey
SL2, Curtis Stigers, The Wedding Present, L7, Pearl Jam, Catherine Wheel, and Annie Lennox
Marc Almond, Iron Maiden, Carter USM, Ten Sharp, Swing Out Sister, Ride, and Pavement
Flowered Up, Sisters of Mercy, Michael Jackson, Metallica, The Black Crowes, Degrees of Motion, and The Cure
May 1992
K.W.S., Curiosity, 2 Unlimited, Kylie Minogue, Morrissey, Allison Jordan, and Nick Cave
Richard Marx, The Wedding Present, Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson, Saint Etienne, Don-E, Gat Decor, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
En Vogue, Guns n’ Roses, Ugly Kid Joe, Ce Ce Peniston, Del Amitri, The Real People, Disposable Heroes of Hiphopricy
Kris Kross, Shut Up And Dance, The Cure, Bassheads, Wilson Phillips, Cud, and Stereolab
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