ALSO ON!

YOO HOO, BABYLON ZOO

4Having been used on a Levi’s ad, Spaceman by Wolverhampton band Babylon Zoo (above) is at UK Number 1. Some buyers are nonplussed that only a segment of the song resembles what they heard on the advert.

MANIC FRIDAY

9At 6pm on Channel 4, music/chat show TFI Friday debuts, with Shed Seven, Skunk Anansie, Ocean Colour Scene, Cher and Count Indigo. Chris Evans hosts, Danny Baker scripts, it lasts until December 2000.

PRINCE HITCHED

14Prince marries dancer Mayte Garcia. She later recalls a $500,000 flower bill, a white-and-gold paint job at Paisley Park and a wedding programme that reads ‘Coincidence Or Fate?’ “I’m so in love with love now,” Prince tells writer Sylvia Patterson.

HELLO, SFA!

26Hometown Unicorn, the first non-EP single by Super Furry Animals, is released on the Creation label. Former vocalist Rhys Ifans stars in the video.

GOODBYE, RAMONES?

29What’s reported as the last-ever US Ramones gig happens at New York’s Academy. In truth, they’ll play another 38 North American shows before the last one in Los Angeles on August 6.