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No way sis
I'd Like To Teach
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New Seekers
The World
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| WEB LINKS If you want to hear "the real thing", visit the Roger Cook website, where you can listen to the New Seekers' version of I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing Roger Cook .com
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Can't Beat The Real ThingIn December Oasis look and sound-alikes No way sis release a cover version of the New Seekers' I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing. The song had been the subject of an earlier Court case in which the songwriters had claimed that Oasis had borrowed the song for their 1994 hit Shakermaker. No way sis cheekily add the line "You can't beat the real thing" to their version, simultaneously having a dig at Oasis and recalling the song's origins as a Coke advert.  Malcolm Feld Agency Ltd. advertisement featuring Connie Francis, Billie Jo Spears, Night Games and Lyn Paul from The Stage, 6,000th Issue, 11th April 1996.  
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| In the News - 1996 | |
| Jan | US peacekeeping troops enter Bosnia on 2nd January. The former President of France François Mitterrand dies from prostate cancer on 8th January, aged 79. On Wednesday, 10th January King Hussein of Jordan makes a historic visit to Israel's largest city, Tel Aviv, two years after the two countries had signed a peace treaty. Yasser Arafat is elected President of the Palestine National Authority on 20th January. On 28th January the French explode a nuclear device at Fangataufa atoll. The following day, faced by an outcry at home and abroad, President Jacques Chirac announces an end to nuclear testing. The renowned opera house in Venice, La Fenice, is destroyed by a fire, suspected to be arson, on 29th January. On 31st January a lorry loaded with explosives crashes into the central bank in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. 91 people die as a result of the attack, with injuries caused to another 1,400. |
| Feb | On Monday, 5th February Safeway and Sainsbury's become the first UK supermarkets to sell genetically modified food, stocking their shelves with a tomato puree with the rotting gene removed. An IRA bomb explodes at South Quay in the Docklands area of east London on 9th February, bringing to an end a 17-month cease-fire. Two people are killed with many more injured. On 13th February Take That announce that the band is splitting up. Counselling hotlines are set up around the UK to help fans deal with their grief. The Sea Empress oil tanker runs aground off Milford Haven on 15th February, spilling 72,000 tonnes of crude oil and 480 tonnes of fuel oil into the sea. A report by Sir Richard Scott is published on 15th February criticising the sale of arms to Iraq in the 1980s. An IRA bomber, Edward O'Brien, is killed on 18th February when the bomb he is carrying explodes prematurely on a bus in Aldwych, London. On 25th February a Hamas suicide bomber kills himself and 24 passengers on a bus in Jerusalem. On 28th February it is announced that Princess Diana has agreed to divorce Prince Charles. The siege of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina,, ends on 29th February. |
| Mar | On 3rd March 18 people are killed in another suicide bomb attack in Jerusalem. The next day 13 people are killed in a nail bomb attack at a shopping centre in Tel Aviv. On Wednesday, 13th March a gunman, Thomas Hamilton, massacres a class of five-and-six-year-old children in the gymnasium of Dunblane Primary School. He then shoots himself. On 15th March the Russian parliament annuls the 1991 treaties dissolving the Soviet Union. The European Union bans the export of British beef and its by-products on 25th March on the grounds that the "mad cow" disease prevalent amongst British cattle posed a health risk to humans. Braveheart wins the Oscar for Best Picture at the 68th Academy Awards ceremony on 25th March. |
| Apr | On 3rd April, almost 18 years after he had begun his mail bombing campaign against American universities and airlines, the 'Unabomber' is arrested by the FBI. Following the publication in The New York Times and The Washington Post of what became known as the Unabomber Manifesto, the FBI had identified its anonymous author “FC” as Ted Kacsynski and traced him to his remote cabin in Lincoln, Montana. David Kaczynski, who had suspected that his brother might be the bomber, helped the FBI to identify him. On 11th April, for the first time in nearly 14 years, Israel launches air strikes against targets in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Fighting between Hezbollah guerrillas and the Israeli army leads to tragedy on 18th April when Israeli shells hit a UN refugee camp at Qana. On the same day, outside a hotel near Cairo, terrorists kill seventeen Greek tourists and their Egyptian tour guide. On Tuesday, 16th April, ten years after their marriage at Westminster Abbey, the Duke and Duchess of York announce their intention to divorce. Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her seventieth birthday on 21st April. On 24th April the PLO rescinds clauses in its charter calling for the destruction of Israel. On the same day two bombs explode on Hammersmith Bridge, London. On 28th April a man with a rifle, Martin Bryant, opens fire on customers at the Broad Arrow Café in Port Arthur, Tasmania. He continues to shoot indiscriminately as he makes his way through the town and then takes three people hostage at a guest house. He is arrested after a 16-hour siege. His hostages are among the 35 people massacred. The musical Rent, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème, opens at the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway on 29th April. |
| May | On 9th May the House of Commons debates an amendment to the Armed Forces Bill. MPs vote by 190 votes to 122 to continue the ban on gay men and lesbians serving in the military. Eight climbers are killed by a freak storm on Mount Everest on 10th May. On 18th May Eimear Quinn wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with the song The Voice. The UK entry, Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit by Gina G, finishes in 8th place. Jon Pertwee, known for his television roles as the Third Doctor in Doctor Who (1970-74) and Worzel Gummidge in the children's television series of the same name, dies from a heart attack on 20th March, aged 76. On 28th May three former business associates of US President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton - James McDougal, his ex-wife Susan McDougal and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker - are found guilty on charges of fraud and conspiracy. On 29th May Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Prime Minister of Israel. |
| June | The Second Severn Crossing, built to supplement the traffic capacity of the Severn Bridge, is opened by Prince Charles on 5th June. Ella Fitzgerald, dubbed "the First Lady of song", dies at her home in Beverly Hills on Saturday, 15th June, aged 79. On the same day an IRA bomb devastates the city centre of Manchester, injuring more than 200 people and causing £700 million of damage. Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand erupts on 17th June. Desmond Tutu retires as Archbishop of Cape Town on 23rd June. The former Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou dies in Athens on the same day, aged 77. Registered partnerships for same-sex couples are made legal in Iceland on 27th June. On 28th June Noel Gallagher of Oasis joins Burt Bacharach on stage at London's Royal Albert Hall to perform the song This Guy's In Love With You. |
| July | On 3rd July Boris Yeltsin is re-elected as President of Russia. On the same day the British Prime Minister John Major announces that the ancient coronation seat of Scottish kings, the Stone of Scone, is to be moved from Westminster to Edinburgh Castle. At Wimbledon the men's singles final between Richard Krajicek and MaliVai Washington is interrupted by a female streaker, Melissa Johnson, just before the toss. Krajicek wins the match 6–3, 6–4, 6–3. A nursery nurse in Wolverhampton, Lisa Potts, is badly injured on 8th July as she protects the children in her care from an attacker wielding a machete. The following June she is awarded the George Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours. The President of South Africa Nelson Mandela makes a State Visit to the UK from 9th to 12th July. On 17th July a TWA jumbo jet (Flight 800 from New York to Rome) explodes and crashes into the Atlantic half an hour after taking off from New York's Kennedy International Airport. All 230 people on board are killed. Chas Chandler, formerly the bass player with The Animals and later the manager of Jimi Hendrix and Slade, dies on 17th July, aged 57. He had been undergoing tests related to an aortic aneurysm at Newcastle General Hospital. Israel and Hezbollah exchange prisoners on 21st July. On Saturday, 27th July a bomb explodes at the Atlanta Olympics. One person is killed and 111 injured. Marge Ganser of The Shangri-Las dies of breast cancer on 28th July, aged 48. |
| Aug | A Game of Thrones, the first novel in the series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, is published in the USA by Bantam Books on 1st August. The first UK edition, published by Voyager (Harper Collins), preceded the US edition by about three weeks. On 6th August NASA scientists announce evidence of a primitive form of microscopic life on Mars. On the same day a Korean Air Boeing 747-300 (Flight 801 from Seoul to Guam) crashes on Nimitz Hill in Guam on 6th August, killing 228 of the 254 people on board. The internet browser war hots up in August with the release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0 (IE3) on 13th August, followed swiftly by Netscape Navigator 3.0 on 21st August. IE3 is the first commercial browser to support Cascading Style Sheets. Former President of South Africa, F.W. de Klerk, publicly repents for the suffering caused by apartheid. On 22nd August he tells the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that the National Party "made many mistakes" but he does not admit to any personal responsibility for human rights abuses. On 28th August, after four years of separation, the Prince of Wales and Princess Diana, formally divorce. |
| Sep | Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot in Las Vegas on 7th September after leaving a Mike Tyson boxing match. He dies in hospital six days later, aged 25. Princess Stephanie of Monaco files for divorce on 16th September after her husband, Daniel Ducruet, is pictured with a stripper. On 22nd September Bob Dent, an Australian man who was very ill with prostate cancer, becomes the first person in the world to die from a legal, voluntary lethal injection. In a letter to Australian Federal Members of Parliament, dictated to his wife Judy on the day before he died, he says: "If you disagree with voluntary euthanasia, then don’t use it, but don’t deny me the right to use it if and when I want to." The last of the remaining Magdalene institutions in Ireland – the Convent of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity in Dublin - closes on 25th September. The Taliban capture Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Friday, 27th September. Comedian Leslie Crowther, who hosted the children's TV show Crackerjack and the first British version of the game show The Price Is Right (1984-1988), dies on 28th September, aged 63. |
| Oct | On 7th October work begins on the demolition of 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, the site of the Fred and Rosemary West murders. Actress Beryl Reid dies on 13th October, aged 76. On 16th October the UK government announces that, in response to the Dunblane massacre in March, it intends to ban the private ownership of almost all handguns. On the same day eighty-three football fans are crushed to death at Mateo Flores stadium in Guatemala City. On 20th October protesters march through Brussels to demonstrate their anger at the Belgian government's mishandling of a child sex abuse scandal. |
| Nov | Singer Eva Cassidy (as yet undiscovered by the record-buying public at large) dies from cancer on 2nd November, aged 33. Bill Clinton is re-elected President of the USA on 5th November. On the same day the Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto is dismissed from office for a second time. In Moscow President Boris Yeltsin undergoes a successful seven-hour heart bypass operation on 6th November. On 14th November Michael Jackson marries Deborah Rowe, a nurse who worked for Jackson's plastic surgeon. A revival of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago opens on Broadway on the same day. It holds the record as the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. 125 people are killed on 23rd November when a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 plunges into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros Islands. 50 people survive the crash. Michael Bentine, a founding member of The Goon Show who also created and presented the children's television programme Michael Bentine's Potty Time (1974-1980), dies on 26th November, aged 74. |
| Dec | 100,000 people take to the streets of Belgrade on 1st December, demanding the resignation of President Slobodan Milosevic. Canada's first Country music star Wilf Carter (also known in the USA as Montana Slim) dies in Scottsdale, Arizona on 5th December, aged 91. On 6th December the Conservative government led by John Major loses its majority in the House of Commons as John Gorst, the Tory MP for Hendon North, announces that he is withdrawing his support. The government's situation worsens on 12th December when Labour wins a by-election in Barnsley East. On 10th December President Nelson Mandela signs South Africa's new post-apartheid constitution in Sharpeville, site of a massacre of unarmed black demonstrators in 1960. The Boeing Company announces its plans to take over its long-time rival McDonnell Douglas on 16th December, making it the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world. Sun Yaoting, the last surviving Chinese imperial eunuch, dies on 17th December, aged 94. Kofi Annan is confirmed as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations on the same day. He replaces Boutros Boutros-Ghali, whose appointment for a second term had been vetoed by the United States. |
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Darts: Phil Taylor wins the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) World Championship for the second year in a row. He beats Dennis Priestley in the final, 6-4. |
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Man Booker Prize Winner: Graham Swift Last Orders Margaret Atwood Alias Grace Beryl Bainbridge Every Man For Himself Seamus Deane Reading In The Dark Shena Mackay The Orchard On Fire Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Orange Prize for Fiction Winner: Helen Dunmore A Spell Of Winter |
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