Boop-oop-i-doop!

Timeslip moment time again...

The USS Enterprise-D has deposited us a quarter of a century ago, in the nexus of 1994 - the year of the Channel Tunnel, Nelson Mandela and the final end of apartheid, Edwina Currie's support of the lowering of the age of consent for homosexual relationships to 16 which was rejected and followed by the passing of an amendment which made it 18, Fred and Rose West and the "House of Horrors" murders, the sinking of the MS Estonia in the Baltic Sea with 852 deaths, Prince Charles' confession on TV of adultery with Camilla (and Diana wearing that iconic "little black dress" on the same day), the Britpop "war" between Oasis and Blur, Newt Gingrich, Pulp Fiction, the arrest of OJ Simpson for murder, the Sony Playstation, genocide in Rwanda, Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around being at #1 for 15 weeks, Serial Mom, civil war in Yemen, "Life is like a box of chocolates", and the Michael Jackson-Lisa Marie Presley freakshow wedding; the births of Tom Daley, Harry Styles, Justin Bieber, Friends, Yahoo, AOL and Amazon; and the deaths of Jackie Onassis, Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Burt Lancaster, Fanny Cradock, Cesar Romero, Telly Savalas, Labour leader John Smith, Henry Mancini, John Curry, Kurt Cobain, Cab Calloway, Ayrton Senna and Doris Speed.

In the headlines in late March twenty-five years ago? The first women were ordained as priests in the Church of England, the grim discoveries continued of the numerous victims of the Wests at 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, the IRA launched three successive mortar attacks on Heathrow Airport, at the 66th Academy Awards Schindler's List won seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director, and that famous photo of the "Loch Ness Monster" from 1934 was finally exposed as a fake; in the ascendant was Silvio Berlusconi (whose right-wing coalition won the Italian general election), but we waved a sad farewell to actor-turned-wildlife-conservationist Bill Travers (of Born Free fame). In our cinemas: What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Philadelphia and Sister Act 2. On telly: Play Your Cards Right with Bruce Forsyth, Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, and the final appearance of "Ivy Tilsley" in Corrie.

And in our charts: Ace Of Base, Bruce Springsteen, Mariah Carey, Salt'n'Pepa with En Vogue, Reel 2 Reel, D:Ream, Bon Jovi, Blur and Degrees of Motion were all present and correct, but there was only one winner...

...at the Number 1 slot was this pseudo-1920s number:

Doop - Doop

Loved it!