NOW 24 - Spring '93: Ray Harris
Nineteen Ninety Three. It's a country we've visited on a number of occasions in this particular parish of variously compiled pop. And it's a...
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NOW Yearbook '76: Alexis Petridis & Ian Wade
1976. You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. Well, silly or not, the charts of this fascinating year were full o...
NOW 43 - Summer '99: Rob Johnson
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of 99: So the year/decade/century/millennium was coming to a close but before the apocalypse didn’t actual...
NOW 5 - Summer '85: Graeme Thomson
The Big Pig is back! As July, turned into August in 1985, the world was still basking in the afterglow of, what was already being called the...
NOW 12 - Summer '88: Tom Doyle
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...
NOW 37 - Summer '97: Marc Burrows
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...
NOW 10 - Autumn ‘87: Sue Charles
Welcome back to 1987! The decade of decadence, extravagance, elegance and other words that end in -nce was powering its way towards the late...
NOW 23 - Autumn '92: Josh Widdicombe
How do you begin to describe 1992? Well, Her Majesty called it her Annus horribilis , for a number of reasons. Quite possibly including the...
NOW Smash Hits of the 80s: Justin Lewis
Welcome to the utterly swingorilliant Autumn 1987! Frightwigs ahoy! Pass around the rock’n’roll mouthwash because the Ver Kids knew that pop...
NOW - The Christmas Album at 40!
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...
NOW Yearbook ‘80: Andrew Harrison & Mark Wood
Gonna use my…imagination. 1980 saw the UK chart taking some incredible leaps forward into the new decade. As the 1970s biggest superstars, P...
NOW 45 - Spring '00: John Matthews
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...
NOW 32 - Autumn '95: Emma Harrison
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...
NOW Yearbook '79: Nick Heyward and Daryl Easlea
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...
NOW Yearbook '82: Ian Wade and ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
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...
NOW 30 - Spring ‘95: Grant Stott
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...
NOW 53 - Autumn ‘02: David Manero
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...
NOW Dance '89 - Summer '89: Joe Muggs
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...
NOW, That’s What I Call A Musical - Sonia
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...
NOW 40 - Summer ‘98: Rob Johnson
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...