MEANWHILE, IN OF REAL WORLD...

EVERYTHING ELSE THAT HAPPENED IN 1991

headlines

The Soviet Union breaks up 69 years after it was founded… The world wide web is made available to the general public for the first time… Perry Farrell launches a new travelling festival, Lollapalooza, featuring Jane’s Addiction, Henry Rollins, Ice-T and more…

Movies

Keanu Reeves and

Alex Winter return to play the lovable heavy metal doofuses in the most excellent Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey… Anthony Hopkins steals the show as cannibal serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the chilling The Silence Of The Lambs… Terminator 2: Judgment Day explodes onto cinema screens.

tv

The Ren & Stimpy Show takes the award for most anarchic kids’ cartoon series of the decade… Young Ones stars Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson reunite in the gloriously filthy sitcom Bottom.

Charts

Bryan Adams’ mawkish (Everything I Do) I Do It For You spends a record-breaking

(and tedious) 16 weeks at Number One in the UK charts. We’re so bored of it we’re even grateful for U2 when they steal the top spot.

hero

Sonic The Hedgehog – the speedy blue mammal becomes an instant icon with the release of the first game in the series.

villain

Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after killing, and occasionally eating, 17 people.

riP

Def Leppard’s Steve Clark (overdose)… Original GN’R bassist Ole Beich (drowning)… Queen frontman Freddie Mercury (AIDS-related illness)… Kiss drummer Eric Carr (cancer).

WtF?

TV star Pee Wee Herman is arrested for wanking in a porn theatre. But will it stand up in court? It does – he’s charged with indecent exposure and enters a plea of no contest.