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EVERYTHING ELSE THAT HAPPENED IN 1995

heADLines

One hundred and sixty-eight people are killed after white supremacist Timothy McVeigh detonates a bomb at a federal building in Oklahoma City… Actor Hugh Grant is arrested af ter being caught

‘in flagrante’ with a sex worker in Los Angeles… Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland is busted for possession of heroin in Pasadena, California…

Movies

Twisty, audiencebaiting The Usual Suspects comes complete with the mother of all holyshit-we-totally-didnot-see-that-coming finales… The majestic Toy Stor y becomes the greatest kids’ film for adults until, well, Toy Story 2.

tv

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer’s Shooting Stars rips the piss out of game shows everywhere… ‘Drink! Feck!’ – three dissolute Irish priests served up an instant sitcom classic in Father Ted… Comedian David Cross and Bob ‘Better Call Saul’ Odenkirk’s Mr. Show becomes the best American sketch show of the 90s…

chArts

Among the biggest singles of the year are by Coolio (Gangsta’s Paradise), Take That (Back For Good) and Shaggy (Mr Bombastic). If you don’t know all the words to at least one, you weren’t there.

hero

Blaze Bayley – if only for having the brass balls to replace Bruce Dickinson as the frontman in Iron Maiden. He tried his best, bless him…

viLLAin

John Doe, the serial killer in David Fincher’s crime drama-cumseriously-fucked-up psychological drama Se7en. Yes, we know he’s a fictional character but… DON’T OPEN THE BOX!

riP

Skinny Puppy keyboard player Dwayne

Goettel (heroin overdose)… Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon (cocaine overdose)… former Helloween drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg (suicide).…

wtf?

President Bill Clinton indicates that the legendary Area 51 exists, to the joy of tinfoil-hatted conspiracists everywhere. It’s official – aliens do exist. Possibly…