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Who could stop Kylie Minogue in March of 1988?
But then it turned out that someone could stop her. And it was in the not totally expected form of Aswad, most famous for one of their members having been in the 1970s children's TV show Here Come the Double Deckers. Now grown up, he and his mates dethroned Kylie, thanks to their single Don't Turn Around. it seemed that only the power of reggae could defeat the antipodean superstar.
On the accompanying album chart, the month arrived with Introducing the Hardline According to ... Terence Trent D'Arby on top before that was displaced by Morrissey's Viva Hate.
But even hate must give way to the soothing charms of music.
And, so, Mozzer was quickly vanquished, as the month drew to a close, by Now That's What I Call Music! 11.
In the real world of food, the month saw the first McDonald's restaurant open in a country run by a Communist party, when one was launched in Belgrade, later to be followed by one in Budapest.
And it seemed Communism was under siege everywhere because Bratislava saw the Candle Demonstration - the 1980s' first mass protest against the government of Czechoslovakia.
March also saw the unleashing of Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman which turned out to have nothing to do with the earlier film of the same name from the same director.
Obviously, I'm going to vote for Beetlejuice as Film of the Month, from that list.
And what of the galaxy's greatest comic?
It was, as so often, offering us a diet of old favourites Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper, Judge Dredd, Tharg's Future-Shocks, A.B.C. Warriors and Nemesis the Warlock.
But it also saw the arrival of new strip in the shape of Tyranny Rex by John Smith and Steve Dillon which followed the adventures of the last survivor of her species of reptilian humanoids, turned mercenary.
And Steve Dillon also presided over the return of Hap Hazzard.
interesting to note that not one of this month's issues features Judge Dredd on its cover. I wonder when was the last time that had happened?
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That Kylie single annoys me a bit. It’s not *terrible* but what winds me up is that at that point she could have released anything and it’d have been just as popular. It wasn’t Stock Aitken & Waterman’s song that made it a number 1, it was Kylie Minogue’s star power. So why didn’t they release the much better ‘Turn It Into Love’ as a single instead? That old have been bearable.
My interest in Morrissey petered out after the two songs on Viva Hate that I liked.
Yeah, Beetlejuice is definitely the film of the month. I went to see it twice. The first time I went was the first time I watched a film drunk.
Shockingly, I also went to see that Police Academy film, but there are mitigating circumstances: I was 17, I was living in a town where there’s not much to do without a car, and it was a date. It’s the only Police Academy film I’ve ever seen.
Definitely completely zoned out of 2000ad at this point. No recollection of any of this.
The Charlie and his French wife did see Feast of Babette in Germany. Best Foreign Language film that year in the US.
IIRC it was in Danish (and French) and had German subtitles. Fortunately it did not need much translation.
It is an austere type of film set in 1800s Denmark. Superb viewing for the evening when stuck inside or all is calm.
May have to get it on a dvd at the library this Sunday afternoon.
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