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EVERYTHING ELSE THAT HAPPENED IN 1994

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Sony launch the groundbreaking PlayStation games console… The Channel Tunnel opens between Dover and Calais… Metallica, Nine Inch Nails and Green Day play to 350,000 at Woodstock ’94 on the 25th anniversary of the original hippie festival…

Aerosmith become the first band to give away a song free on the internet with Head First…

movie

Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction becomes one of the greatest films of the decade… Kevin Smith’s no-budget comedy, Clerks, introduces the world to stoned duo Jay & Silent Bob…

Tv

Comedy legend Chris Morris’s genius TV news spoof The Day Today introduces the world to a sports reporter by the name of Alan Partridge… Lightning-paced sketch show The

Fast Show launches a thousand catchphrases… Cult US cartoon The Tick corners the market in brilliantly surreal weirdness…

CharTs

Sweaty stadium rockers Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Adams dominate the charts, but hats off to Rednex, whose techno-bluegrass single Cotton Eye Joe remains one of the worst novelty hits of the decade, if not all time. (It’s stuck in your head now, isn’t

it? Sorry.)

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rip

WTF?

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Comedian Bill Hicks. His life is cut short by pancreatic cancer, though his genius remains in his recordings.

OJ Simpson, the former American Football star-turned-comedy actor, is accused of killing his ex-wife and a friend. He is later found not guilty.

Nirvana frontman

Kurt Cobain (suicide)… Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff (heroin overdose)…

Self-proclaimed King Of Pop Michael Jackson marries Lisa Marie Presley in one of the decade’s weirdest weddings. Unsurprisingly, they divorced two years later.