La de da de de, la de da de da

It's another timeslip moment, and another trip back twenty-five years to 1998 - the year Madam Arcati and I first got together...

In the news headlines in March that year: The Galileo probe found a frozen ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa, Titanic swept the Oscars, the "Free Deirdre" campaign became a media obsession after Coronation Street's leading lady was wrongfully jailed in the soap, the last working tin mine in Cornwall (South Crofty) closed down, there was a massacre in Algeria during its ongoing civil war, and that most British of cars the Rolls-Royce was bought-out by Germany's BMW; Daniel Massey, Lloyd Bridges, Judge Dread and Dr Benjamin Spock all died; and Viagra was born.

In UK cinemas: Jackie Brown; Gattaca; Good Will Hunting. On telly: the debut of South Park; Airline; The Pepsi Chart Show.

And in our charts this week a quarter of a century ago? Holding off all-comers for the top slot was the behemoth that was Run DMC vs Jason Nevins It's Like That, and still hanging around like a bad smell at #2 was that Titanic dirge from Slime Dion. Also present and correct in the Top Ten were Robbie Williams, Spice Girls, Destiny's Child, Queen Madge, M People, Savage Garden, (ahem) LL Cool J, and (one of my favourite records) Here's Where The Story Ends by Tin Tin Out Ft Shelley Nelson.

But lurking just outside at #11 [surprisingly its highest chart position] was this (re-)work of genius!

The All Seeing I - Beat Goes On

I. Love. It.