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The first occurred when the governments of Portugal and China signed an agreement for control of Macau to be returned to the latter country in 1999.
The second was when a soon-to-be legendary cartoon first appeared as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. That cartoon was, of course, Captain Pugwash.
Oh.
No.
Apparently, it was The Simpsons.
The UK singles chart greeted the month with Ferry Aid's charity cover of Let it Be at Number One before that was displaced by Madonna's La Isla Bonita and, at last, the world would be alerted to the plight of young girls with eyes like potatoes.
Over on the adjoining album chart, there was only one player in town and that was Now That's What I Call Music! 9 which spent the entire month in top spot.
But what of the cinema?
The UK singles chart greeted the month with Ferry Aid's charity cover of Let it Be at Number One before that was displaced by Madonna's La Isla Bonita and, at last, the world would be alerted to the plight of young girls with eyes like potatoes.
Over on the adjoining album chart, there was only one player in town and that was Now That's What I Call Music! 9 which spent the entire month in top spot.
But what of the cinema?
What might one find enclosed within the walls of one, were one inclined to enter one?
One might find Police Academy 4, The Secret of My Success, G.I. Joe, Extreme Prejudice and My Demon Lover because they were all released that April.
I must confess to never having seen any of them but the one I most want to watch is My Demon Lover, purely because of its title.
And then there's the galaxy's greatest comic.
It was, as so often, giving us a diet of Bad Company, Strontium Dog, Judge Dredd, Tharg's Future-Shocks, The Dead and Sláine.
On top of that, Prog 516 offered us Classic Covers of 1980, Prog 518 offered up Classic Covers of 1982, and Prog 519 served out Classic Covers 1983-1986. The astute reader will have guessed that these were reprints of classic covers from the 1980s.
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7 comments:
Young girl with eyes like potatoes! Yay! Evergreen.
Now 9 had some right old rubbish on it…
https://www.discogs.com/release/808602-Various-Now-Thats-What-I-Call-Music-9
I haven’t seen any of those films either, and have no plans to change that.
Actually I might have seen The Secret Of My Success on VHS back then?
But… I read a book by the editor of that movie fairly recently so I might just be remembering that.
I was not really reading 2000AD at this point. I remember I worked in a newsagent and had it on order, but they used to pile up under the counter week after week until the owner got fed up and made me buy them.
So we have Ezquerra on autopilot. Fabry doing his slightly stiff thing.
I like the McCarthy, but that ‘Book Of The Law’ looks more like a punk fanzine. And the Bad Company is OK. Not too bad.
Thanks for the Music link MM. i dare say i don’t recall but a few… but then again this is for the UK. And it seemed like I rarely saw these CDs living in Germany.
Never saw the movies.
Never read the Dredds.
All of f this is the equivalent to saying I don’t remember anything about them, lol. Maybe I should start a blog? But I do have that razor-sharp wit, alas.
I didn’t see any of those movies either. Wikipedia says EXTREME PREJUDICE was a Modern-day Western directed by Walter Hill from a script originally written by John Milius, starring Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe and Michael Ironside, with a score by Ry Cooder. Dang, that sounds right manly.
I like McCarthy’s cover a lot. It’s so raw, it looks like it was drawn 1/2 printed size and then blown up. What’s going on in that Fabry cover? Is the kneeling guy gonna tattoo the standing guy’s schmeckle or something?
b.t.
NOW 9 includes Caravan Of Love by The Housemartins and by coincidence I only recently watched the video for that song which was a revelation to me as I don't recall ever seeing it when Caravan Of Love was in the Top 40.
La Isla Bonita is probably my favourite Madonna song and I feel obliged to point out that the aforementioned line actually goes "Young girl with eyes like the desert" but "Young girl with eyes like potatoes" would clearly be more lyrically profound :D
Only 4 comments? It's quiet...TOO quiet.
It can only mean they're poised for a mass attack.
We’re hunkered down waiting for the end times.
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