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Celebrating all things related to the variously compiled world of pop.
Oh, that’s bad! No, that’s good! If you know your 80s dancefloor bangers, you’ll recognise that S-Express vocal insert and will already be d...
Swing it, shake it, move it, make it! …is exactly what the nation was doing in 1997. Yes, that’s right, Channel 5 was here and fiddling with...
Welcome back to 1987! The decade of decadence, extravagance, elegance and other words that end in -nce was powering its way towards the late...
How do you begin to describe 1992? Well, Her Majesty called it her Annus horribilis , for a number of reasons. Quite possibly including the...
Welcome to the utterly swingorilliant Autumn 1987! Frightwigs ahoy! Pass around the rock’n’roll mouthwash because the Ver Kids knew that pop...
Welcome to a special festive episode of Back to Now. We first revisited Now - The Christmas Album in 2020. You remember 2020, don’t you? It...
Gonna use my…imagination. 1980 saw the UK chart taking some incredible leaps forward into the new decade. As the 1970s biggest superstars, P...
Welcome to the 21st Century! Or did you call it Y2K? And if so, can I ask WHY? Yes, pop fans and curators of variously compiled pop, we had...
Is this the way they say the future’s meant to be? It’s November 1995. Pop was pulling in many different directions. But predominantly, it w...
It’s the end, the end of the Seventies. It was a decade that had started with Edison Lighthouse and ended with Another Brick in the wall. Af...
Poor old Johnnie Ray. Actually, I wonder what the heart wrenching vocal superstar of the fifties made of his starring role in the biggest se...
Wake up, it’s a beautiful morning! It’s the spring of 1995. That most eclectic of decades, the nineties if you will, was no longer the new k...
2002. The pop culture landscape would never be the same again. No, we’re not talking about Robbie Williams £80m, six album deal (although Ru...
Can You Feel It? It’s July, 1989 and the temperature is hot! Actually, for a lot of the UK it surprisingly was, but let’s leave meteorologic...
In 2025, the iconic NOW series moves into the world of musical theatre with a brand new show ‘NOW, That’s What I Call A Musical’ delivering...
The United Kingdom in Summer 1998 was an interesting place indeed. In June, the DVD was released for the first time and presumably the first...
Welcome, everyone, to the Back to Now review for 2024! Following in the well-loved festive traditions such as fingering your way through the...
Ideas, experiments, imagination. So, what was the optimum Britpop™️ year? Academics, thinkers and BBC documentary makers have wrestled over...
Dylan Jones once described the Eighties as being shaped by ‘a new type of bohemianism, one empowered by a certainty and an optimism that was...
We’re going where the sun shines brightly, We’re going where the sea is blue… 1986 really was very Cliff. He had celebrated his first No1 of...
“What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back!” If you were really down with the cool kids in 1984, you would have most definitely ha...
August 1989. The final year of ‘the finest pop decade ever’™️ is moving along quite nicely thank you very much. There’s most definitely a ch...
It was the wise prophet and occasional flower impersonator Peter Gabriel that said, ‘I don’t remember, I don’t recall, I have no memory of a...
It's November 2023, and the world's most successful compilation series is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Five decades of compiling the la...
Confidence, they say, is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as… …1994, darlings! And of course, as perceived wisdom now d...
Pop. The way that we process everything. So, it's the summer of 1993. According to meteorological 'experts', the UK experienced its lowest m...
Welcome to Spring 1993. And, I’m sure you’ll all agree, there was only one phrase on everyone’s lips. I lick-he boom, boom down. (Checks not...
Welcome, one and all, to the 3rd annual Back to NOW review! As is now tradition, this end of year episode of the variously compiled podcast...
They all know it’s Dynamite, And the music went on and on and on… The history books will tell us that, in theory, 1973 shouldn’t have worked...
La, La, La. Autumn 2001. In many ways, it has been a challenging year. 5ive and Steps split, Hearsay don’t. Pop, just like the most boybandi...
It’s a Saturday night in April 1985 and a queue is gathering outside Raffles nightclub in, well pretty much every town and city across this...
It’s summer 1991 and school’s out which means it’s time for your latest compilation! It was probably on cassette, possibly from your local h...
WARNING! This episode contains scenes of graphic and often gratuitous pop perfection. Listener discretion is advised. Summer 2004. The wette...
Welcome to the middle of ‘the nineties’! Sort of! Spring 1994, to be exact. And indeed, the popworld is revelling in the ‘seed of the new br...
It’s the summer of 1992! The UK had accidentally voted in the Conservative government again but to make amends wins lots of medals at the Fr...
Alexa, show me 1984. If you were to ask a certain searchable device (others are, obviously available), there’s a high probability that the y...
Welcome to 1993. Autumn, to be exact. And how was it all looking? Well, it wasn’t really baggy like 1990, or rave-y like 1991, but it wasn’t...
Welcome to this bonus edition of Back to Now! A small but perfectly formed bite-size extra serving of Festive Pop! To compliment the end of...
Festive greetings and welcome to what all of the Pop Kids are rightly calling the 2nd annual Back to Now review for 2022! Can it really be a...
Jack, jack, jack….wait? What? Who is this Jack? It’s 1987, and the future has arrived in the shape of the first No1 of the year courtesy of...
1991. It was the first palindromic year since 1881, and to be honest I’m not really up on the hits of that particular Victorian number. (New...
1990. Well it certainly was time for the guru, but as the first year of the new decade was drawing to a close, it was time - a little time ,...
‘One goal, one mission…one vision!’. November 1985, and the latest poptastic edition of NOW kicks off with the unifying cry from Freddie and...
Welcome to the end of the eighties! Pop’s greatest (it was, wasn’t it?) decade was getting ready to pack away it’s shoulder pads, leg warmer...
In memory of a wonderful guest and outstanding writer, Neil Kulkarni. Welcome to Autumn 1996. Royal divorce, Mad Cow disease, Take That help...
It's Autumn 1992! Damn, Would I Lie To You ? What an interesting time for the UK singles charts. Is it fair to say the decade was at some so...
Enjoy this trip. And it is a trip! What a poptastic year 1988 was turning out to be at NOW HQ! As the 80s were speeding their way towards a...
For this episode I am joined by award winning film director Grant McPhee. Amongst Grant’s films are Big Gold Dream, which tells the story of...
Can 1996 really be over a quarter of a century ago? Yes it can, and this is where we find the hot hits of summer as sizzlingly delivered in...
Welcome and indeed the most festive of greetings, as the back to NOW podcast brings 2021 to a close. And from a variously compiled world of...