New Seekers
Greatest Hits
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Ecstatic!
A special year in more ways than one - on 16th February Lyn celebrates her 40th birthday and on 17th April gives birth to her son, Ryan. Years later, Lyn described how she found out she was pregnant:
"I had felt it was unlikely I would ever have children... Then one day I got too hot sunbathing. I came inside and lay on the floor and felt sick.
Next morning I got up and felt sick again. I said to Alan [Lyn's partner]: 'If I didn't know any better, I'd think I was pregnant.' I did a pregnancy test and when it turned blue I nearly passed out with shock."
(Daily Mail, Thursday, 31st July 1997, page 53)
The unexpected news leaves Lyn feeling "ecstatic". She later told YOURS magazine how she felt when Ryan was born:
"When I first saw him, I couldn't believe that little bundle was mine. I couldn't hug or kiss him enough. It makes me fill up just remembering how I felt."
(YOURS Summer Special, July 2000, page 45)
During the Summer Lyn plays some dates for Pontins. Then, on 2nd September, five months after Ryan was born, Lyn and Alan get married. As Lyn told it to the Daily Mail, the wedding invites went out as though they were from Ryan:
"When Ryan was five months old we sent out invitations saying: 'Ryan invites you to the wedding of his Mummy and Daddy'."
(Daily Mail, Thursday, 31st July 1997, page 53)
The wedding itself is something special. It even gets a mention in the magazine Hello!.
"When I got married the first time, it was in a register office and I wore a blue frock. This time, I was married in a church and I wore a cream dress, the rings were blessed and everything was done properly. When I got to the altar, Alan cried and I cried. I cannot tell you the amount of love I felt at that particular moment. I knew I was doing the right thing."
(YOURS Summer Special, July 2000, page 45)
Lyn is soon back to work. On 28th October she tops the bill in the Palace of Variety Show at the Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock.
During 1989 the Hollywood Nites record label releases a Greatest Hits CD by the New Seekers. Although the cover photo features Lyn Paul in the line-up, the tracks on the CD are in fact re-recordings of the New Seekers' original hits together with a handful of newer recordings. The lead vocalist turns out to be Donna Jones, Lyn's one-time singing partner from the trio the Chrys-Do-Lyns. Worried that people might be misled into thinking that she was unavailable for solo work, Lyn complains to The Stage:
"I'm not concerned with the money side of things but I don't want people to think that I'm back with the New Seekers when I'm not. ... When I heard the songs I was so annoyed as there were none of my vocals on there at all and my photo was on the front cover."
(The Stage & Television Today, 6th April)
As a consequence of Lyn's complaint the CD is withdrawn from sale and repackaged.
By coincidence Judith Durham, the former lead singer with The Seekers, experiences a similar "identity crisis." The Seekers had re-formed with a new singer, Julie Anthony, and in April issue a 20-track album featuring nine re-recordings of their original hits. Judith Durham later finds out that the album was released in Europe with her picture on the cover. Her reaction is similar to Lyn's:
"It was as though I had been a session singer on those original recordings. It's one thing to re-form a group with a new singer, but it's another thing entirely to re-record the old hits, rewriting history in a way. It was almost as though I'd never existed."
(Quoted from The Judith Durham Story: Colours Of My Life by Graham Simpson, page 270).
At Christmas Lyn Paul is back in panto again. From 21st December 1989 - 28th January 1990 she stars for the second year running in Roy Hudd's production of Babes In The Wood, this time at the Theatre Royal, Bath. Starring with her, as they had done the year before in Wolverhampton, are Roy Hudd as 'Orrible Uddy', Geoffrey Hughes as Evil Eddie and Jack Tripp as Nurse Ribena. HTV presenter Richard Wyatt steps in to the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham, previously played by Maurice Colbourne.
Babes In The Wood
Theatre Royal, Bath
(promotional leaflet).
 
Amid the tumult that was 1989 Lyn finds time for a night at the theatre. She goes to see Blood Brothers at the Albery Theatre in London. The show has a big impact on Lyn. As she later recalled in an interview for the Liverpool Echo:
"I went to see Kiki Dee as Mrs. Johnstone, but her understudy took over that night. It was still one of the most moving nights I have ever had in the theatre." (Liverpool Echo, 5th April 2002, page 6)
Lyn knows there and then that she wants to swap her seat in the auditorium for a place centre stage. "I said to my husband then that was the part I wanted to play." (South Wales Evening Post, 20th June 1997, page 3) Eight years later she does just that.
Incidentally...
Don Black, who wrote the lyrics for two of Lyn Paul's singles (Sail The Summer Winds and If Everybody Loved The Same As You) has success on the stage and in the charts with the musical Aspects Of Love. Written in partnership with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart, the show opens in London's West End on 17th April, having already taken £2 million in advance ticket sales. A single from the show, Michael Ball's Love Changes Everything (Really Useful RUR 3), is released ahead of the opening and climbs to number 2 in the UK singles chart. The London Cast album (Polydor 841126 1), which is released later in the year, tops the UK album chart on 16th September.
In June Bette Midler has a number 1 hit in the USA with Wind Beneath My Wings from the film soundtrack of Beaches. The single reaches number 5 in the UK. Two years earlier Lyn Paul had performed the same song at the Euro Country Music Masters (AVRO-TROS) in The Netherlands.
| In the News - 1989 |
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| Jan |
Emperor Hirohito of Japan dies on 7th January, aged 87.
47 people are killed on 8th January when a British Midland Boeing 737 crashes onto the M1 motorway near Kegworth while attempting an emergency landing at East Midlands Airport.
The Broadway production of 42nd Street closes on 8th January after 3,486 performances. The show won two Tony Awards in 1981, including the Tony for Best Musical.
On Saturday, 14th January Muslims hold an angry demonstration in Bradford, at which they burn a copy of Salman Rushdie's controversial book The Satanic Verses. Acting on the advice of the police, Britain's biggest bookseller W.H. Smith withdraws the book from sale from two of its shops in Bradford, but claims that it is being withdrawn because of waning sales. On 18th January, following negative press coverage, W.H. Smith's Chairman, Sir Simon Hornby, announces that the book is back on sale - but being kept under the counter rather than on the shelves.
Race riots erupt in Miami on 16th January after a Hispanic policeman kills an unarmed black man fleeing on a motorcycle.
South African President P.W. Botha has a stroke on 18th January.
Travel writer Bruce Chatwin dies on the same day, aged 48.
On 20th January George Bush is inaugurated as 41st President of the USA.
The surrealist painter Salvador Dali dies in Figueres, Spain on 23rd January, aged 84.
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Sky TV is launched on 5th February.
On 14th February Ayatollah Khomeini proclaims a fatwah on Salman Rushdie for his book Satanic Verses.
Russian troops complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 15th February, ending 9 years of occupation.
On 24th February nine people lose their lives when a cargo door opens at high altitude on a United Airlines Boeing 747 flying from Honolulu to Aukland, New Zealand.
U2's album The Joshua Tree becomes the first CD to sell a million copies in the USA.
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Two serious rail crashes occur in the UK within two days of each other. On 4th March six people are killed and 80 injured when two trains collide at Purley in Surrey. On 6th March two people are killed and 51 injured in another collision in Glasgow.
Iran severs diplomatic relations with the UK on Tuesday, 7th March.
On 14th March Roger Moore walks out of rehearsals for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Aspects Of Love.
Two senior RUC officers, Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan, are killed on 20th March when their car is ambushed near the village of Jonesborough, County Armagh.
On Friday, 24th March the oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on Bligh Reef off the coast of Alaska, releasing 11 million gallons of crude oil into the sea and killing at least 100,000 sea birds.
Rain Man wins the Oscar for Best Picture at the 61st Academy Awards ceremony on 29th March.
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On 6th April Employment Secretary Norman Fowler announces the government's intention to abolish legislation guaranteeing dock workers 'jobs for life'.
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13th April the US Congress votes $49.7 million worth of aid to the Contra rebels fighting the Sandanista government in Nicaragua.
On Saturday, 15th April 96 football fans are crushed to death or suffocated at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, where Liverpool and Nottingham Forest were playing in the semi-final of the FA Cup.
Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, dies on the same day at the age of 73, after suffering a heart attack on 8th April. On the eve of his State Funeral, which takes place on 22nd April, students demanding democratic reform pour into Tiananmen Square.
Novelist Daphne du Maurier dies on 19th April, aged 81.
Nintendo launches the Game Boy on 21st April.
Lucille Ball dies on 26th April, aged 77.
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| May |
On 4th May the former US National Security aide, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, the man at the heart of the 1986 Iran-Contra affair, is convicted on three counts - altering and destroying government documents, obstructing Congress, and illegally accepting a home security system.
On Saturday, 6th May Riva wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Yugoslavia with the song Rock Me. The United Kingdom, represented by Live Report singing Why Do I Always Get it Wrong?, finishes second for the twelfth time.
On Saturday, 13th May students calling for greater freedom and democracy in China go on hunger-strike in Tiananman Square.
On the same day a 74-year-old Briton, Jackie Mann, is kidnapped in Beirut.
"If that's justice, then I'm a banana." So says Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye, after the High Court in London awards £600,000 damages to Sonia Sutcliffe, the wife of the "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe. The award, made on Wednesday, 24th May, is £100,000 more than the previous record British libel sum. It is later reduced to £60,000 on appeal.
Mikhail Gorbachev is elected President of the USSR on 25th May by the Congress of People's Deputies.
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| June |
Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones and 19-year-old Mandy Smith get married on 2nd June.
Ayatollah Khomeini dies on 3rd June, aged 86.
Chinese troops take back control of Tiananmen Square on Sunday, 4th June. Hundreds of students and workers are killed.
On the same day sparks ignite a leaking gas pipeline near the city of Ufa in Russia, causing a crash between two trains. 575 people are killed by the explosion.
The Solidarity party wins a landslide victory in the Parliamentary elections held in Poland on 4th and 18th June.
The former Communist Prime Minister of Hungary, Imre Nagy, is given a formal public funeral on 16th June, 31 years after his execution. On 6th July the Hungarian Supreme Court acquits him of the charges of high treason for which he had been executed.
On 27th June, to highlight the easing of border restrictions between their two countries, Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gyula Horn, and his Austrian counterpart, Alois Mock, hold a symbolic fence-cutting ceremony at the Sopron border crossing.
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| July |
P.W. Botha visits Nelson Mandela in prison on 5th July.
On 9th July, during the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, two bombs explode, killing one pilgrim, and wounding 16 others.
Mel Blanc, creator of the cartoon characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, dies on 10th July, aged 81. The words "That's all folks!" are engraved on his tombstone.
Laurence Olivier dies on 11th July, aged 82.
Herbert von Karajan, the principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years, dies on 16th July, aged 81.
On 19th July the leader of Westminster City Council, Dame Shirley Porter, is accused of gerrymandering in an episode of the BBC current affairs programme Panorama. The programme uncovers a "homes for votes" scandal, alleging that the Conservative Council had been moving people out of marginal wards and selling the vacated Council housing to people who were more likely to vote Conservative.
On 20th July Aung San Suu Kyi, the general secretary of Burma's newly-formed National League for Democracy (NLD), is placed under house arrest at her mother's home at 54 University Avenue, Rangoon.
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Oh! Calcutta!, the revival of the theatrical revue created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan, closes on 6th August after 5,959 performances on Broadway. The original production ran in New York for 1,314 performances. The revival was the first on Broadway to match its original for 1,000+ performances.
On 14th August P.W. Botha resigns as South African President. The next day he is succeeded by F.W. de Klerk.
On Sunday, 20th August 51 people are killed in an accident on the Thames, when a pleasure cruiser, the Marchioness, is hit from behind by a dredger, the Bowbelle.
On Wednesday, 23rd August approximately 2 million Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians join hands to form a human chain across the three Baltic states
in order to peacefully demonstrate their desire for independence from the Soviet Union.
On Thursday, 24th August Tadeusz Mazowiecki wins a vote of confidence in the Sejm to become the first non-communist Prime Minister of Poland since 1946.
The unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft takes the first close-up pictures of Neptune on Friday, 25th August, having already sent back pictures of Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus.
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The USA breaks off diplomatic relations with Panama on 1st September.
Ann George, best known for her role as Amy Turtle in the long-running television soap opera Crossroads, dies on 8th September, aged 86.
Sam Najoma, president of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), returns to Namibia on 14th September, after nearly 30 years of exile.
A new Sunday paper, the Sunday Correspondent, is launched in the UK on 17th September.
The French TGV Atlantique (train à grande vitesse, ‘high-speed train’) makes its first run on 20th September; travelling between Paris and Le Mans at speeds of up to 299 kph / 186 mph.
Miss Saigon, a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, opens at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on the same day.
On 22nd September eleven Marines from the Royal Marines Band Service are killed and another 21 injured when an IRA time bomb explodes at the Royal Marine Depot in Deal, Kent.
Irving Berlin dies in New York City on the same day, aged 101.
On 26th September Vietnam withdraws the last of 26,000 troops from The People's Republic of Kampuchea. The country is re-named the State of Cambodia and Buddhism is re-established as the state religion.
Ferdinand Marcos, the former Philippine head of state (1966-86), dies in Honolulu, Hawaii on 28th September, aged 72
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Bette Davis, who starred in films such as All About Eve and Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, dies on 6th October, aged 81. Engraved on her tombstone are the words: "She did it the hard way".
San Francisco is hit by an earthquake on 17th October. 67 people are killed, most of them dying when a double-decker freeway collapses.
On Wednesday, 18th October Erich Honecker is forced to step down as the leader of Communist East Germany. He is replaced by Egon Krenz.
Three of the "Guildford four" (Patrick Armstrong, Gerard Conlon and Carole Richardson) are released from prison on 19th October after their convictions for IRA bomb attacks in Guildford, Surrey are quashed by the Court of Appeal. Paul Hill, who also served 15 years in prison, is released on bail on 20th October.
Ewan MacColl dies on 22nd October, aged 74.
On 23rd October ambulance crews in London begin a work to rule in support of their pay claim.
Nigel Lawson resigns as Chancellor of the Exchequer on 26th October. He is replaced by John Major.
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The Berlin Wall is torn down on Thursday, 9th November by crowds gathered at the Wall's checkpoint gates.
Proceedings from the House of Commons are televised for the first time on 21st November.
On the same day UK ambulance crews refuse to deal with anything other than accidents and emergencies.
Rajiv Gandhi and the Congress Party lose the Indian elections. Gandhi resigns on 29th November. V.P. Singh becomes the new Prime Minister on 2nd December.
On 30th November Pablo Picasso's Les Noces de Pierrette is sold in Paris for Fr315,000,000 (£33,075,627).
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On Sunday, 3rd December the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and the US President George Bush announce an end to the Cold War, following two days of talks in Malta. Three weeks later, on 22nd December, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is opened for the first time in nearly 30 years.
On Tuesday, 5th December, in the first challenge to her leadership of the Conservative party, the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher beats the backbencher Sir Anthony Meyer in a ballot of Tory MPs by 314 votes to 33. Twenty-seven MPs deliberately spoilt their ballot or abstain.
President Bush sends US troops into Panama on 20th December.
Samuel Beckett dies on 22nd December, aged 83.
In Romania the President, Nicolae Ceausescu, is overthrown. He and his wife are executed by a firing squad on Christmas Day.
The playwright and human rights activist Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech and Slovak Republic on 29th December.
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| In the Charts |
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UK Chart débuts |
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- Beautiful South
- Del Amitri
- Lightning Seeds
- Roxette
- Stone Roses
- Texas
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| UK Best-selling Singles |
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- Marc Almond and Gene Pitney
Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
- Michael Ball
Love Changes Everything
(from Aspects Of Love)
- Bananarama / La Na Nee Nee Noo Noo
Help
- Band Aid II
Do They Know It's Christmas
- Bangles
Eternal Flame
- Beautiful South
Song For Whoever
- Big Fun
Blame It On The Boogie
- Black Box
Ride On Time
- Sam Brown
Stop
- Belinda Carlisle
Leave A Light On
- Cher
If I Could Turn Back Time
- Neneh Cherry
Manchild
- Christians,
Holly Johnston,
Paul McCartney,
Gerry Marsden
and Stock Aitken Waterman
Ferry 'Cross The Mersey
- Natalie Cole
Miss You Like Crazy
- Cure
Lullaby
- Depeche Mode
Personal Jesus
- Jason Donovan
Sealed With A Kiss
- Jason Donovan
Too Many Broken Hearts
- Electronic
Getting Away With It
- Erasure
Crackers International (EP) featuring: Stop! / The Hardest Part / Knocking On Your Door / She Won't Be Home
- Fine Young Cannibals
She Drives Me Crazy
- Deborah Harry
I Want That Man
- INXS
Mystify
- Jive Bunny and The Mastermixers
Swing The Mood
- Billy Joel
We Didn't Start The Fire
- Holly Johnson
Americanos
- Holly Johnson
Love Train
- Kaoma
Lambada
- Chaka Khan
I'm Every Woman
- Gladys Knight
Licence To Kill (Theme from the James Bond film)
- Kon Kan
I Beg Your Pardon
- Cyndi Lauper
I Drove All Night
- Madonna
Cherish
- Madonna
Express Yourself
- Madonna
Like A Prayer
- Martika
I Feel The Earth Move
- Richard Marx
Right Here Waiting
- Bette Midler
Wind Beneath My Wings
- Midnight Oil
Beds Are Burning (1989)
- Mike & The Mechanics
The Living Years
- Milli Vanilli
Girl I'm Gonna Miss You
- Liza Minnelli
Losing My Mind
- Kylie Minogue
Hand On Your Heart
- Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan
Especially For You
- New Kids On The Block
You Got It (The Right Stuff)
- Roy Orbison
You Got It
- Pet Shop Boys
It's All Right
- Roachford
Cuddly Toy
- Linda Ronstadt
featuring Aaron Neville
Don't Know Much
- Roxette
The Look
- Rufus and Chaka Khan
Ain't Nobody
- Simple Minds
Belfast Child
- Simply Red
If You Don't Know Me By Now
- Sonia
You'll Never Stop Me Loving You
- Soul II Soul
Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)
- Lisa Stansfield
All Around The World
- Donna Summer
This Time I Know It's For Real
- Tears for Fears
Sowing The Seeds Of Love
- Technotronic featuring Felly
Pump Up The Jam
- Transvision Vamp
Baby I Don't Care
- Tina Turner
The Best
- U2 with B.B. King
When Love Comes To Town
- Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds
Eve Of The War (re-mix)
- Wet Wet Wet
Sweet Surrender
- Will To Power
Baby I Love Your Way - Free Bird
- Sydney Youngblood
If Only I Could
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One Hit Wonders |
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- Edelweiss
Bring Me Edelweiss
- Lynne Hamilton
On The Inside
(Theme from Prisoner Cell Block H)
- Reynolds Girls
I'd Rather Jack
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Hit Albums |
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- Aspects Of Love
[London Stage Cast]
- Beautiful South
Welcome To The Beautiful South
- Tracy Chapman
Crossroads
- Phil Collins
... But Seriously
- Deacon Blue
When The World Knows Your Name
- Erasure
Wild!
- Eurythmics
We Too Are One
- Fine Young Cannibals
The Raw And The Cooked
- Nanci Griffith
Storms
- Chris Isaak
Heart Shaped World
- Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
- Elton John
Sleeping With The Past
- Holly Johnson
Blast!
- Nigel Kennedy
Vivaldi: Four Seasons
- k.d. lang
Absolute Torch and Twang
- Paul McCartney
Flowers In The Dirt
- Madonna
Like A Prayer
- Bette Midler
Beaches
[Film Soundtrack]
- Liza Minnelli
Results
- New Order
Technique
- Roy Orbison
Mystery Girl
- Prince
Batman
- Queen
The Miracle
- Chris Rea
The Road To Hell
- Cliff Richard
Stronger
- River Detectives
Saturday Night Sunday Morning
- Simply Red
A New Flame
- Tears for Fears
The Seeds Of Love
- 10,000 Maniacs
Blind Man's Zoo
- Tina Turner
Foreign Affair
- Wet Wet Wet
Holding Back The River
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| At the Movies |
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- Batman
- Beaches
- La Cage Aux Folles
- Le Cop II
- Coming Out
- The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Dead Poets' Society
- Die Hard
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- Field Of Dreams
- Hawks
- Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
- Jesus Of Montréal
- Lethal Weapon 2
- Licence To Kill
- Looking For Langston
- My Left Foot
- Naked Gun
- New York Stories
- Rain Man
- Scandal
- Sex, Lies And Videotape
- Shirley Valentine
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
- Twins
- When Harry Met Sally
- Wilt
- Working Girl
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| On Stage |
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Tony Award for Best Musical:
Jerome Robbins' Broadway
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| On Television |
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- Alas Smith And Jones
- 'Allo 'Allo
(Series 6)
- Birds Of A Feather
(Series 1)
- Blackadder Goes Forth
- Bread
(Series 5)
- Challenge Anneka
- Doctor Who (Season 26)
- Emmerdale
- The Golden Girls
(USA: Series 5)
- Home and Away
- In Sickness And In Health
(Series 4)
- Last Of The Summer Wine
(Series 11)
- Mr. Bean
- Only Fools And Horses
(Series 6)
- Out On Tuesday
- Red Dwarf
(Series 3)
- The Simpsons
(USA)
- Spitting Image
(Series 9 and 10)
- Sticky Moments
(Julian Clary)
- Three Up Two Down
(Series 4)
- Wallace & Gromit
A Grand Day Out
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| Sporting Heroes |
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BBC Sport
BBC
Sports Personality
of the Year:
Nick Faldo
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Darts: the 1982 Champion Jocky Wilson wins the British Darts Organisation (BDO) World Darts Championship for the second time.
Rugby Union: France win the Five Nations Championship.
Horse Racing: Desert Orchid wins the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Little Polveir wins the Grand National.
Nashwan wins the Derby.
Rowing: the University of Oxford crew wins the annual Boat Race against Cambridge.
Snooker: Steve Davis beats John Parrott 18-3 to become World Snooker Champion for the sixth (and last) time.
Stephen Hendry wins the UK Championship for the first time, beating Steve Davis 16-12 in the final.
Golf: Nick Faldo wins the US Masters in a playoff with Scott Hoch.
Curtis Strange wins the US Open for the second year in a row.
Mark Calcavecchia wins the British Open at Royal Troon.
The Ryder Cup ends in a draw, with the United States and Europe sharing 14 points apiece.
Football: Arsenal end the season as Champions of the Football League First Division for the 9th time.
Liverpool beat Everton 3-2 in the FA Cup final.
Cycling: Greg LeMond wins the Tour de France for the second time.
Tennis: Boris Becker is the men's singles Champion at Wimbledon for the third (and last) time. He gains revenge for his defeat by Stefan Edberg in the 1988 final by beating Edberg in straight sets (6-0, 7-6, 6-4).
In a re-match of the previous year's women's final Steffi Graf again beats Martina Navratilova (6-2, 6-7, 6-1).
Becker and Graf are also victorious at the US Open: Becker beats Ivan Lendl in the men's singles final; Graf beats Navratilova in the women's final.
Motor Racing: Alain Prost wins the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship for the third time.
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| Page-turners |
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Man Booker Prize
Winner:
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains Of The Day
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Life Begins At Forty
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of forty, sometimes more than once.
Dave Barry
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
Leon Blum
Thirty is a nice age for a woman - especially if she happens to be forty.
Phyllis Diller
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
Benjamin Franklin
You get up with the sun in the morning,
And you work till you're ready to fall.
Oh! the first forty years are the hardest
After that you get used to it all.
Ed Morton, Jas S. Donahue and M.K. Jerome
At 20, we don’t care what the world thinks of us. At 30, we worry about what it thinks of us. At 40, we’re sure it doesn’t think of us.
Will Rogers, 'Life Begins At Forty' (1935)
Life begins at forty - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person three or four times.
Helen Rowland
Pregnancy
If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.
Nora Ephron
The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh
To me, life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.
Rita Rudner
Childbirth
I think women oughta have babies the way God intended - strapped to a table, numb from the neck down.
Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan), 'The Golden Girls'
If you want to know how childbirth feels, just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.
Carole Burnett
One book recommends choosing a Birth Mantra to chant over and over again. I didn't realise until I went into labour that I had subconsciously chosen my mantra:
"Get This Baby Out Of Me."
Cathy Crimmins
If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one.
Diana, Princess of Wales
I realise why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.
Sherry Glaser
Amnesia is a condition that enables a woman who has gone through labour to have sex again.
Fran Lebowitz
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
Madonna
When I was giving birth the nurse asked, 'Still think blondes have more fun?'
Joan Rivers
Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Well that was the messiest, ickiest, most unbearably primitive experience I've ever had.
Binky Shelton (Deborah Rush) 'Big Business'
We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong.
Laura Stavoe Harm
Delivery is the wrong word to describe the childbearing process. Delivery is, 'Here's your pizza.' Takes thirty minutes or less. Exorcism, I think, is more apt: 'Please! Get the hell out of my body!'
Jeff Stilson
Antenatal classes are run by liars. When you're having a baby for the first time what you really need to know is, 'what's it going to be like'? And they won't tell you.
Victoria Wood
When you're in the middle of having a baby, it's a bit like watching two very inefficient removal men trying to get a very large sofa through a very small doorway. Only in this case you can't say, 'Oh, sod it, bring it in through the French windows.'
Victoria Wood
Babies
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Leo J. Burke
Babies are beautiful, wonderful, exciting, enchanting, extraordinary little creatures - who grow up into ordinary folk like us.
Doris Dyson
I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
Douglas Feaver
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Knox
Children
Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
Lionel Kauffman
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
Sophocles
Parents
The joy of parenthood is to experience the development of a "lively" child into a fine human.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
You realize after you have had children that you'll never love anything more than your child.
Kate Hudson
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
Margaret Mead
The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
Lane Olinghouse
Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler
Having children changes your life irrevocably. It takes the whole paradigm and turns it upside down in the most wonderful way. Until you have a child, you've never been certain you'd give your life for someone, you've never been so proud, you've never been so tired.
Elizabeth Vargas
Marriage
Ideally, a married couple should be made of two complete individuals, who shine the most brightly for being together.
Joyce Grenfell
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Second Marriages
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck, men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde, 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray'
Bath... Oh! Who can ever be tired of Bath?
Beware of the unmeaning luxuries of Bath and of the stinking fish of Southampton.
Jane Austen, 'Love and Friendship'
Bath, compared with London, has little variety, and so everybody finds out every year.
Jane Austen, 'Northanger Abbey'
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