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TOTP 21 MAR 1996

In the last post I mentioned that Ricky Gervais had been the music advisor on the BBC2 show This Life and that much of its soundtrack featured artists that could have been categorised as Britpop. Well, it looks like Ricky could have been advising on the tunes for this TOTP with nearly half of the…

TOTP 14 MAR 1996

Sometimes, things can take a while before they come to fruition, a substantial gestation period before conditions are right for optimum blossoming. In the world of entertainment, we might call it a sleeper hit. In the UK singles chart of 1996, such things were becoming a rarity with singles careering in and out of the…

TOTP 07 MAR 1996

After Justine Frischmann the other week, now we get the other of the two biggest female names of the Britpop movement in the TOTP ‘golden mic’ slot. Louise Werner was/is, of course, the lead singer of Sleeper and as such the connection to and similarities with her Elastica counterpart were always going to be highlighted…