Popular Nostalgia

Personalities from popular culture who have marked a period of time. Remember them here on popular-nostalgia.com.

Strike a pose and dance like Madonna. Arms all over the place. You can now even go and dance to 80’s music in a modified nightclub aerobics class. Everyone’s done it and there are a thousand Youtube spin-offs of the complicated mime-style poses which make up the Vogue dance. The difference between Vogue and other […]

Before Ben Elton made the hit musical We Will Rock You about a band called Queen, a band called Queen made the song We Will Rock You as one of their most popular track of many great tracks. With their ebulient frontman, Freddie Mercury, Queen really were a phenomenon for many years – bridging the […]

Freddie Mercury died before he could perform at the opening of the Barcelona Olympic Games but his favourite opera singer, Montserrat Caballe went onto perform a spine-tingling live version of the theme penned by Queen.

The Queen’s involvement with racing stretches back to before she came to the throne in 1952, with her first winner, owned jointly with her mother, the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, being Monaveen in a National Hunt race at Fontwell. On the death of her father, King George VI, the Queen inherited the Royal […]

Moonwalker was released in 1999 as a strange way of linking together a string of Michael Jackson’s songs. It was a success and feature in a number of Christmas repeats to this day. All I really remember about this film is the scene where Michael Jackson takes on the now embattled Wesley Snipes in a […]

George Formby was born George Hoy Booth on 26 May 1904 in Wigan, Lancashire. He started out as a professional jockey because his father didn’t want his son to follow him into showbusiness. Once his Father died, George went into stand-up. He bought a ukelele from an actor for £2.50 with a bet that he […]

Following a crash at Charles de Gaulle crash in 2000, an investigation led to a series of safety improvements to the design of the Concorde. However, this wasn’t enough to save the service, which was eventually retired in 2003. Richard Branson had offered to buy the fleet for £1 to keep it in service -later […]

Everyone remembers the spontaneous emotion displayed by the last governor of Hong Kong -Chris Patten. He was upset to leave the place he loved and it showed. He later left the Foreign Office. After 99 years of British rule, Hong Kong was handed back to its rightful owners, the Chinese. A tactical stronghold and last […]

OJ Simpson flees the scene of his wife’s murder and the chase is caught on camera. OJ goes on to plead not guilty to the murder and is set free after hiring some of the country’s best lawyers. The prosecution case was riddled with errors of judgement and poor presentation skills. It seems that the […]

This song sums up everything nostalgic about Christmas. Christmas in Australia just wasn’t the same without chestnuts roasting on an open fire or snow glistening outside. Bing felt the same way when he sang this classic as part of the 1942 classic “Holiday Inn” and later the 1954 hit “White Christmas”: Lyrics I’m dreaming of […]

Everyone was singing it -on school buses, in pubs and around town. England, normally too scared to hope, was allowing herself to get all excited about the 1996 European Championships. England flags were all over: on cars, buildings and boats. Girls made red and white tops and the boys wore England shirts. Everybody gathered round […]

Unfortunately for the lovely Craig, nobdy could ever take him seriously again as a singer after Avid Merrion recast him as a character in the series “Bo’ Selecta”. Mocked for his street lingo and general cool kid antics, Craig David soon became better known as his alter-ego

Romeo & Juliet – the first time I cried at a film -and one of the last. Deeply upsetting for 11 year old girls the world over. The good chest shots throughout this film made it even harder to part with the photogenic Leonardo Di Caprio. Good job that every girls’ magazine had printed a […]

“Jack, Jack,” Rose whispers as he slips into the depths of the Atlantic… …and the sound of a thousand little girls’ hearts breaking. Everyone wanted to be Kate Winslet in this epic movie until they saw the inevitable. In the same way as Sixth Sense, someone spoilt this film for me by telling me that […]

Some people stand in the darkness, afraid to step into the light. And then there was Baywatch. We never missed a single episodes as normally disorganised brothers and dads managed to time their takeover of the telly to coincide with the weekly soft porn episode brought to you by David Hasslehof. I recently watched a […]