Half a world away in Rome, a graduate aerospace engineer by the name of Andrea Stella was working on his PhD in mechanical engineering, while Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri… well, let’s say neither of them were a factor just yet.
Rather fittingly, the UK had Cher at No.1 in the charts with ‘Believe’. Though the karaoke performances in Japan may have been more tonally equivalent to the UK’s number one movie, The Exorcist, which was banned on VHS, but had been re-released in cinemas. Things were a little less X-rated in the US, where The Waterboy topped the charts.
Fast forward 26 years and The Exorcist is available to stream in 4K, Adam Sandler has a four-movie deal with Netflix and the idea of a song selling 11 million…