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1) 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. But...Show More
2) 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 is...Show More
3) 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 som...Show More
4) 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 dec...Show More
5) 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 out...Show More
6) 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 con...Show More
7) 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 ever...Show More
8) 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 toppin...Show More
9) 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 eigh...Show More
10) 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 m...Show More