MEANWHILE, IN THE REAL WORLD...

EVERYTHING ELSE THAT HAPPENED IN 1990

HEADLINES

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, sparking the first Gulf War… The Berlin Wall is demolished, 29 years af ter it was built… Tim Berners Lee writes the first web browser, inventing the world wide web… Metallica win a Grammy Award for One.

MOVIES

Martin Scorsese’s Mafia classic Goodfellas is the year’s coolest film… Johnny Depp sports a fright-wig and metal extremities in gothic romance Edward Scissorhands… Arnold Schwarzenegger meets a woman with three breasts in cult sci-fi classic Total Recall…

TV

David Lynch’s mind-bending series Twin Peaks makes its debut. The world spends the next 27 years wondering what the hell it’s all about.

CHARTS

Rapper Vanilla Ice’s Queen-sampling Ice Ice Baby becomes a Number One hit. By the end of the decade, he will have reinvented himself as a nu metal singer.

HERO

Bar t Simpson, the star of animated TV show The Simpsons and unlikely cultural icon. The single Do The Bartman sells more than 200,000 copies in the UK.

VILLAIN

Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy for Best New Artist after it is revealed didn’t sing any vocals on their debut album. Thankfully, they disappear off the face of the Earth.

RIP

Andrew Wood, singer with Seattle grunge band Mother Love Bone (heroin overdose)… Punk rock icon Stiv Bators (car accident)…

WTF?

A controversial new sitcom about Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun called Heil Honey I’m Home! airs on British TV. It is cancelled after just one episode.