Timeslip moment again...
...and we're hurtling back in time three decades once more - to 1992: HM The
Queen's annus horribilis, after the official separation of Prince
Charles and Princess Diana, the separation of the Duke and Duchess of York,
the Princess Royal divorcing Capt Mark Phillips (and subsequently marrying Tim
Lawrence) and the devastating fire at her favourite residence Windsor Castle;
it was also the year of the Maastricht Treaty, Ab Fab, Nigel Mansell,
President Bill Clinton, Ebeneezer Goode, Stella Rimington, the
continued bloody break-up of Yugoslavia and the war in Bosnia, Slobodan
Milošević, Madonna's Erotica, "Black Wednesday", Eldorado, Alan
Shearer, "You Know When You've Been Tango'd", Andrew Morton, Boutros
Boutros-Ghali, The Big Breakfast , John Smith, Rachel Nickell, Damien
Hirst's "shark", Sister Act, Nagorno-Karabakh, Jeffrey Dahmer,
Wayne's World, David Mellor, BCCI, For The Boys, Steffi Graf,
Yitzhak Rabin, polytechnics transformed into new universities,
The Camomile Lawn, the Barcelona Olympics, Pope John Paul II, Boris
Yeltsin and Strictly Ballroom; the year that Miley Cyrus, EuroDisney,
the Republic of Mauritius, the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the Ford Mondeo, Sam
Smith, the Commodore Amiga 1200 computer, Classic FM, Nick Jonas, Slovakia,
Windows 3.1, Cara Delevingne, The Oldie magazine, Selena Gomez and
Wagamama were all born; and the year Marlene Dietrich, Nancy Walker, Anthony
Perkins, Sandy Dennis, Peter Allen, Robert Morley, José Ferrer, Ástor
Piazzolla, Lawrence Welk, Menachem Begin, Denholm Elliott, Isaac Asimov,
Thames Television, TVS, TSW and TV-am died.
In the news headlines in April '92? The UK elected Margaret Thatcher's
successor John Major as Prime Minister in the biggest landslide vote in
history, there was civil war in Afghanistan, the declaration of independence
of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Serbian siege of Sarajevo, an IRA bomb
destroyed the Baltic Exchange in the City of London, the massive Freddie
Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness (featuring Queen and an array of
heavy rock bands, as well as Dame Elton John, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, David
Bowie, George Michael, Seal, Paul Young, Annie Lennox, Lisa Stansfield and
Liza Minnelli) took place at Wembley Stadium, Betty Boothroyd became the first
female Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lost Gardens of Heligan in
Cornwall first opened to the public, and the acquittal of four police officers
in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggered massive rioting in Los
Angeles; we also waved a sad goodbye to "national treasures" Frankie Howerd
and Benny Hill on consecutive days. In our cinemas:
My Own Private Idaho; Hook;
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. On telly: Jeeves and Wooster;
Take Your Pick! with Des O'Connor; the debut of Heartbeat.
And what of our charts this week thirty years ago? All present and
correct in the Top Ten were the fabulous Shakespear's Sister, Iron Maiden,
Vanessa Williams, Curtis Stigers, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Marc
Almond's Days of Pearly Spencer, SL2 On a Ragga Tip,
one-hit-wonders Ten Sharp with You, and some dirge by an act called "Mr
Big"
[I'll be the judge of that! - Ed.].
However, finally - after their magnum opus I'm Too Sexy was thwarted by
the seventeen-week-chart-topping behemoth that was Bryan Adams'
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You in '91, and their second hit
Don't Talk Just Kiss was beaten by the Xmas re-release of
Bohemian Rhapsody following Freddie's death - it was the turn of the
very lovely Right Said Fred to take the top slot - with this one!
Love it - but not as much as this (unsurprisingly)...
I'm too sexy for my love
Too sexy for my love
Love's going to
leave me
I'm too sexy for my shirt
Too sexy for my shirt
So
sexy it hurts
And I'm too sexy for Milan
Too sexy for
Milan,
New York and Japan
And I'm too sexy for your party
Too
sexy for your party
No way I'm disco dancing
I'm a model,
you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah,
on the catwalk, on the catwalk, yeah
I do my little turn on the
catwalk
I'm too sexy for my car
Too sexy for my car
Too
sexy by far
And I'm too sexy for my hat
Too sexy for my
hat
What d'ya think about that?
I'm a model, you know what I
mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah, on the catwalk,
on the catwalk, yeah
I shake my little tush on the catwalk
I'm
too sexy for my
Too sexy for my
Too sexy for my
'Cause
I'm a model, you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the
catwalk
Yeah, on the catwalk, yeah, on the catwalk, yeah
I shake
my little tush on the catwalk
I'm too sexy for my cat
Too
sexy for my cat
Poor pussy
Poor pussy cat
I'm too sexy
for my love
Too sexy for my love
Love's going to leave me
And
I'm too sexy for this song!
Yay!
But... THIRTY YEARS?! Lordy, We're old...
