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Chronology: Pre-Stone Roses

THE STONE ROSES MUSIC CURRENT AFFAIRS CULTURE 1980

Art created by John 45s: , Ashes Cinema: Squire in this year: to Ashes; , The Empire Strikes Back; N/K ; Raging Bull; Superman II; , She's Fame; Airplane!; The Out of My Life; Visage, Elephant Man; The Fade to Grey; Bruce Shining; The Blues Springsteen, Hungry Brothers; Dressed to Kill; ; AC/DC, You Shook Nine to Five; Flash Me All Night Long; The Gordon; 's Gate; Clash, ; The Caddyshack; Friday , Going Underground; 13th; The Long Good , Another Brick Friday; Ordinary People. in the Wall (Part II); The d. (Apr Police, Don't Stand So 29), Peter Sellers (Jul 24), Close To Me; Blondie, Steve McQueen (Nov 7), Atomic & ; Mae West (Nov 22), Madness, Baggy Trousers; George Raft (Nov 24), Kelly Marie, Feels Like 'm Raoul Walsh (Dec 31). In Love; , Too Much Too Young; Dexy's Fiction: Midnight Runners, Geno; Frederick Forsyth, The The Pretenders, Talk of Devil's Alternative; L. Ron the Town; Bob Marley and Hubbard, Battlefield Earth; the Wailers, Could You Be Umberto Eco, The Name Loved; Tom Petty and the of the Rose; Robert Heartbreakers, Here Ludlum, The Bourne Comes My Girl; Diana Identity. Ross, Upside Down; Pop Musik, M; , Non-fiction: Over You; Paul Carl Sagan, Cosmos. McCartney, Coming . d. Jean-Paul Sartre (Apr LPs: Adam and the Ants, 15). Kings of the Wild Frontier; , Remain in TV / Media: Light; Queen, The Game; Millions of viewers tune Genesis, Duke; The into the U.S. TV soap Pretenders, Pretenders to find out who shot , Boy; Joy Division, lead character J.R. Ewing Closer; , Never (Nov 21). for Ever; David Bowie, Debuting: Magnum, P.I. Scary Monsters (and (CBS). Super Creeps); , Ending: The Rockford Dirty Mind; Stevie Wonder, Files; Shoestring. Hotter than July; Dexy's d. Marshall McLuhan (Dec Midnight Runners, 31). Searching For The Young Soul Rebels; Fashion: & Yoko Ono, Double Power dressing, Fantasy; , Freedom epitomised by the wide of Choice. shoulder of TV’s Dallas.

February February Visual arts: 19 Bon Scott, lead singer 9 Eric Bristow wins his first Enzo Cucchi, Ferocious of AC/DC, dies of alcohol world darts championship, Painting; Rainer Fetting, poisoning. defeating Bobby George. Large Shower. 22 The United States Exhibitions: Pablo Picasso Olympic Hockey Team Retrospective at the defeats the Soviet Union in Museum of Modern Art, the semi finals of the City. Winter Olympics, in the d. Tamara de Lempicka ‘Miracle on Ice’. (Mar 18). March March The Patrol play their first 4 Robert Mugabe is gig, at Sale Annexe Youth elected Prime Minister of Club, (admission 30p). Zimbabwe. Support is provided by 21 U.S. President Jimmy Suburban Chaos. Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the 1980 Date N/K and Summer Olympics in Pete Garner attend the Moscow. recording of ’s 24 Archbishop Óscar 'Bankrobber' in Romero is killed by . gunmen while celebrating Date N/K The Patrol play Mass in San Salvador. At at The Mayflower in his funeral 6 days later, 42 Gorton, replacing Adam people are killed amid and the Ants, who had gunfire and bombs. broken down on the April motorway. 7 The U.S. severs Date N/K The Patrol diplomatic relations with record their only demo, on Iran and imposes a 4 track in a Rusholme economic sanctions, in studio. Limited to one response to the hostage hundred copies, the demo taking of November 1979. has 3 songs: Jail Of The 30 Iranian Embassy Siege: Assassins, Too Many Six Iranian-born terrorists Tonnes and 25 Rifles. It is take over the Iranian the first recording of Ian embassy in . (bass) and John (guitar) May May together. 18 Ian Curtis of Joy 4 Yugoslav President Tito Date N/K The Patrol play Division hangs himself in dies. Dunham Massey village his . 5 The SAS retake the hall, where they share a His death comes just days Iranian Embassy; 1 bill with Suburban Chaos before Joy Division are terrorist survives. and Corrosive Youth. scheduled to begin their 18 Eruption of Mount St. first U.S. tour. Helens kills 57 people. June 10 The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela, calling for an end to Apartheid. July 11 The Patrol (and Stray Dogs) provide support for Corrosive Youth on school playing fields at Selby Road, . September 25 drummer John Bonham is found dead at age 32. October 15 James Callaghan announces his resignation as Leader of the British Labour Party. 27 Six Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners in Maze prison refuse food and demand status as political prisoners; the hunger strike lasts until December. November November The Patrol play their final 4 In the U.S. presidential gig, at South Trafford election, Republican College, challenger and former (admission 50p), sharing a Governor Ronald Reagan line-up with Scorched of defeats Earth and Strange incumbent Democrat Behaviour. President Jimmy Carter in 16 Gary Mounfield’s 18tth a landslide victory. birthday. 12 The NASA space probe 24 ’s 18th Voyager I makes its birthday. closest approach to Saturn, when it flies within 77,000 miles of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high- resolution images back to scientists on Earth. 20 The Gang of Four trial begins in China. December 8 John Lennon is shot dead outside his apartment building in .

1981

Art created by John 45s: Adam and the Ants, Cinema: Squire in this year: Stand and Deliver; The Raiders of the Lost Ark, N/K Specials, Town; Superman II; Mad Max 2: Kim Carnes, Bette Davis The Road Warrior; An Eyes; Madness, The American Werewolf in Return of the Los Palmas London; Chariots of Fire; 7, Grey Day, Shut Up & It Nine to Five; Arthur; Must Be Love; The J. Excalibur; Clash of the Geils , Centerfold; Titans; Blow Out; Ultravox, Vienna; The Mephisto; Escape from Jam, That’s Entertainment; New York. Blondie, Rapture; Men at d. William Holden (Nov Work, Down Under; The 12). Go-Go's, Our Lips Are Sealed; Queen & David Fiction: Bowie, Under Pressure; Samuel Beckett, Ill Seen Ill AC/DC, Back in Black; Said; Thomas Harris, Red Altered Images, Happy Dragon. Birthday; Rush, Tom Sawyer; Olivia Newton- Non-fiction: John, Physical; Alasdair MacIntyre, After Psychedelic Furs, Pretty in Virtue; Maya Angelou, The Pink; , Dancing Heart of a Woman; Viktor with Myself; Tom Petty Suvorov, The Liberators. and the Heartbreakers, The Waiting; The Rolling TV / Media: Stones, Start Me Up; Debuting: Only Fools and Icehouse, Icehouse; Jon Horses (BBC1); Dynasty and , I'll Find My (ABC); The Show Way Home. (BBC1); Brideshead LPs: , Duran Revisited (Granada); Duran; The Human Bullseye (ITV); The League, Dare; Prince, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Controversy; Adam and Galaxy (BBC2); Postman the Ants, Prince Charming; Pat (BBC1); Pigeon Street , Face Value; (BBC); Smurfs (NBC); The The Psychedelic Furs, Kids of Degrassi Street Talk Talk Talk. (CBC). Ending: Charlie's Angels; January The Waltons; The Muppet 4 police arrest Show. Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. Fashion: 19 U.S. and Iranian The officials sign an agreement fashions, with great hair to release 52 American experimentation, hostages after 14 months characterised by an of captivity. extravagance of strange 20 Ronald Reagan hair colours and cuts. succeeds Jimmy Carter, to d. Edith Head (Oct 24). become the 40th President of the U.S. Visual arts: 21 The first De Lorean Fred Williams, Drifting DMC-12 automobile rolls Smoke; Anselm Kiefer, off the production line in Innenraum; Richard Serra, Dunmurry, Northern Tilted Arc. Ireland. February February February 20 Ian Brown’s 18th 14 Billy Idol leaves 13 Rupert Murdoch buys birthday. Generation X to pursue a and The solo career. Sunday Times for £12 million. 14 A fire at the Stardust in Artane, , ROI, kills 48 and injures 214 people. March 1 Bobby Sands, an IRA member, begins a hunger strike for political status in Long Kesh prison (he dies on 5th May, the first of 10 men). 11 Chilean President Augusto Pinochet is sworn in for another 8-year term. 30 U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.. April April 4 Bucks Fizz wins the 10 IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands wins the with Making Your Mind Up. Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election. 11 riot: rioters in South London throw petrol bombs, attack police and loot shops. 12 Space Shuttle Columbia launches. May May 11 Bob Marley dies. 13 Pope John Paul II is The musical Cats begins shot and nearly killed by its 8949 performance run Mehmet Ali Ağca, a on London's West End. Turkish gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Rome to address a general audience. 21 Socialist François Mitterrand becomes French President. June 5 Five homosexual men in L.A., California are found to have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (the first recognized cases of AIDS). July 3 - 11 Rioting in Handsworth, Southall, Toxteth, and Moss Side. 17 Israeli bombers destroy the PLO headquarters in Beirut. 29 Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of . August August 1 MTV is launched. 7 The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. 19 Gulf of Sidra incident: Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi sends 2 fighter jets to intercept 2 U.S. fighters over the Gulf of Sidra. The American jets destroy the Libyan fighters. September September 19 Simon and Garfunkel 1 Albert Speer, Hitler's perform a free in Minister of Armaments and New York in front of War Production, dies of approximately half a natural causes while on a million people. visit to London. 10 Picasso's Guernica is moved from New York to Madrid. 29 Former FC manager Bill Shankly dies. October 6 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is assassinated during a parade by army members from the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organisation who opposed his negotiations with Israel. November 23 Iran-Contra scandal: Ronald Reagan gives the CIA the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

1982

Art created by John 45s: Duran Duran, Hungry Cinema: Squire in this year: Like the Wolf & Rio; Blade Runner; E.T. the N/K , Do You Extra-Terrestrial; Rocky III; Really Want to Hurt Me; Porky's; An Officer and a , Glittering Gentleman; Pink Floyd Prize; Roxy Music, More The Wall; Sophie's Than This & Avalon; The Choice; Tron; Wild Style; Jam, Gandhi; Airplane II: The & ; Sequel. Madness, House of Fun & d. Henry Fonda (Aug 12), Our House; Dexy's Ingrid Bergman (Aug 29), Midnight Runners, Come Grace Kelly (Sep 14). On Eileen; , State of Fiction: Independence; The Steve Jackson and Ian Pretenders, Back on the Livingstone, The Warlock Chain Gang; Fat Larry's of Firetop Mountain; Band, Zoom; The Stephen King, , Golden Brown; Running Man. Toto, Rosanna; Marvin d. Philip K. Dick (Mar 2). Gaye, Sexual Healing; The Cars, Since You’re Gone; Non-fiction: , I Ran Tom Peters, In Search of (So Far Away) & Wishing Excellence. (If I Had a Photograph of You); , Goody TV / Media: Two Shoes; Fleetwood is launched; the Mac, Hold Me & Gypsy; first program broadcast is Tony Basil, Mickey; Phil game show Lynott, Old Town. (Nov 2). LPs: Michael Jackson, Debuting: Countdown (Ch Thriller; Prince, 1999; 4); Boys from the ABC, The Lexicon of Love; Blackstuff (BBC2); Fame Kate Bush, The Dreaming; (NBC); Late Night with Willesden Dodgers, Jive David Letterman (NBC); Rhythm Trax; Yazoo, Cagney & Lacey (CBS); Upstairs at Eric's. Police Squad! (ABC); The Young Ones (BBC2); January Timewatch (BBC2); Knight 26 Unemployment in the Rider (NBC); Cheers UK increases by 129,918 (NBC); The Comic Strip to 3,070,621, a post-war Presents (Ch 4). record. Ending: Multi-Coloured March Swap Shop; Tiswas; Mork 9 Charles Haughey and Mindy; Tom and Jerry. becomes Taoiseach of d. John Belushi (Mar 5). ROI. 19 The Falklands War Fashion: approaches: Argentines Headbands become land on South fashionable. Island, precipitating war. April April Visual arts: 10 Alan Wren’s 18th 2 Falklands War begins, Robert Sherman, Carousel birthday. with Argentina's invasion In The Country; Jean- of the Falkland Islands. Michel Basquiat, Donut May May Revenge. 21 Manchester’s Hacienda 2 In the Falklands War, Photographer Jacqueline club opens. HMS Conqueror sinks Livingston's gallery in Belgrano. Soho, London, is placed 12 Spanish priest Juan under FBI surveillance Hernandes attempts to because of accusations of stab Pope John Paul II child pornography. with a bayonet during the latter's pilgrimage to Fatima, Portugal. 16 Alex Higgins wins the World Snooker Championship for a second time, his first triumph. 26 Aston Villa win the European Cup, beating Bayern 1-0. June 14 The Falklands War ends with surrender by Argentina. July 11 Italy beats West 3-1 to win the 1982 World Cup, held in Spain. July 20 The Provisional IRA detonates 2 bombs in central London, killing 8 soldiers and wounding 47 people. August The home computers, Commodore 64 and Colecovision, are both released. 20 Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. November November 5 The Tube is first 20 University of California, broadcast on Channel 4. Berkeley executes ‘The Play’ in a college football game against Stanford. December 7 The first U.S. execution by lethal injection is carried out in .

1983

Art created by John 45s: Michael Jackson, Cinema: Squire in this year: , Beat It & Return of the Jedi; N/K Human Nature; Frankie Scarface; Trading Places; Goes To Hollywood, Koyaanisqatsi; Staying Relax; , Time Alive; WarGames; 48 Hrs.; After Time; , Superman III; Risky This Charming Man; Business; Octopussy; Prince, Little Red Corvette; National Lampoon's New Order, Blue Monday; Vacation; Educating Rita; Bananarama, Cruel Flashdance. Summer; U2, New Year’s d. Norma Shearer (Jun Day; , 12); David Niven (Jul 29). Everything Counts; Madness, Wings of a Fiction: Dove; Fiction Factory, Salman Rushdie, Shame. (Feels Like) Heaven; Duran Duran, Is There Non-fiction: Something I Should Susan Oliver, Odyssey: A Know?; The Clash, Rock Daring Transatlantic the Casbah; Africa, Toto; Journey. Yes, Owner of a Lonely Heart; , TV / Media: True; Heaven 17, Debuting: The A-Team Temptation; Men Without (NBC); Breakfast Time Hats, The Safety Dance; (BBC1); Good Morning KC and the Sunshine Britain (TV-am); The Black Band, Give It Up; Simple Adder (BBC1); Minds, Waterfront; ThunderCats; Kajagoogoo, Too Shy; Blockbusters (ITV). China Crisis, Wishful Ending: Little House on Thinking; Howard Jones, the Prairie; Quincy, M.E.. New Song & What Is Love?; Altered Images, Fashion: Don't Talk To Me About Increase in popularity of Love; Tracey Ullman, They leg warmers by their Don’t Know; Level 42, The appearance in movies Sun Goes Down (Living It such as Flashdance. Up); Orange Juice, Rip It Up; Adam Ant, Puss ’n Visual arts: Boots & Strip; Nena, 99 John LeKay, Non Luftballons; The terrestrial Black Bird of Pretenders, 2000 Miles; Paradise; Julian Schnabel, R.E.M., Radio Free Cabalistic Painting; Europe; Stevie Nicks, Stephen Farthing, The Stand Back & If Anyone School at Rome; Christo Falls; Masquerade, and Jeanne-Claude, Guardian Angel. Surrounded Islands. LPs: Culture Club, Colour d. Joan Miró (Dec 25). by Numbers; , ; David Bowie, Let's Dance; , Synchronicity; Phil Collins, Hello, I Must Be Going!; Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This); , Madonna; Huey Lewis And The News, Sports; Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues; Echo & the Bunnymen, Porcupine; , The Hurting ; , Script of the Bridge; James Last, The Rose of Tralee and Other Irish Favourites; , Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks; Cocteau Twins, Head over Heels.

Date N/K Ian holds a party January for his girlfriend's 21st 8 Keith Deller defeats Eric birthday at his flat in Bristow 6-5 in an epic Charles Barry Crescent, world darts championship . In attendance is final. Soul legend Geno 22 Björn Borg retires from Washington, who tennis after winning 5 encourages Ian to become consecutive Wimbledon a singer. championships. February February 4 Karen Carpenter dies 7 Iran opens an invasion in from a cardiac arrest due the southeast of Iraq. Date N/K The Waterfront to anorexia nervosa. record their only demo. March March Normandy (On A Beach 25 Michael Jackson 8 U.S. President Ronald In) and When The Wind performs Billie Jean at the Reagan calls the Soviet Blows are the two tracks Motown 25th Anniversary Union an "evil empire." recorded. Special; the ‘moonwalk’ is born. April April 30 dies 18 The U.S Embassy is from a heart attack. bombed in Beirut, killing 63 people. May 17 Lebanon, Israel, and the U.S. sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. June 9 Margaret Thatcher wins a landslide General Election victory (42% of the popular vote) over Michael Foot. July 15 The Nintendo Entertainment System goes on sale in Japan. September 1 Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft strayed into Soviet airspace; all 269 on board are killed. 25 In the biggest prison escape in British history, 38 Provisional IRA prisoners break free from HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, . October 2 Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party. 4 Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. 25 Word is first released. 27 Pope John Paul II visits his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca in prison to forgive him. November 11 Ronald Reagan becomes the first U.S. President to address the Diet, Japan's national legislature. December December 28 Dennis Wilson of the 9 The Australian Dollar is Beach Boys dies. floated, by Federal treasurer Paul Keating. 10 Military rule ends and democracy is restored in Argentina. 17 A Provisional IRA car bomb kills 6 people and injures 90 outside Harrods in London. 31 Brunei gains independence from the U.K.

Chronology:

THE STONE ROSES MUSIC CURRENT AFFAIRS CULTURE 1984

Art created by John 45s: Michael Jackson, Cinema: Squire in this year: Thriller; Bananarama, Once Upon a Time in N/K Robert De Niro's Waiting & America; The Terminator; The Wild Life; Wham, Ghostbusters; Beverly Wake Me Up Before You Hills Cop; Jones Go Go & Last Christmas; and the Temple of Doom; Don Henley, The Boys of , Texas; Footloose; Summer; Cyndi Lauper, Sixteen Candles; Girls Just Wanna Have Gremlins; The Karate Kid; Fun; Duran Duran, The Dreamscape; Stop Making Reflex; Van Halen, Jump; Sense; Amadeus; This Is Nena, 99 Red Balloons; Spinal Tap. Prince, When Doves Cry; d. (May 4). Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Two Tribes; Fiction: Madonna, Lucky Star; The Frederick Forsyth, The Smiths, Heaven Knows I'm Fourth Protocol; James Miserable ; Pet Shop Ballard, Empire of ; Boys, West End Girls; Angela Carter, Nights at , Run To the Circus; Kundera, You; , The Unbearable Lightness Hold Me Now; The of Being; William Gibson, Psychedelic Furs, The Neuromancer. Ghost in You; Deniece Williams, Let's Hear It for Non-fiction: the Boy; Billy Idol, Eyes Steven Levy, Hackers: Without a Face; Heroes of the Computer Strawberry Switchblade, Revolution. Since Yesterday; Wang Chung, Dance Hall Days; TV / Media: New Order, Thieves Like Debuting: Vice Us; The Cars, Drive; Nik (NBC); Kershaw, Wouldn’t It Be (ITV); (ITV); Scully Good; Eurythhmics, Here (Ch 4). Comes the Rain Again; Ending: Happy Days; The Pointer Sisters, Automatic Young Ones. & Jump (For My Love); d. (Oct Industry, State of the 5). Nation; , Going Down to Liverpool; Fashion: Murray Head, One Night in The extravagant trends Bangkok; , had settled and focused Smalltown Boy; Laura on one simple concept - Branigan, Self Control; volume. More hair The Pogues, Streams of better. Bananarama Whiskey; Madness, reflect the changing styles, ; Philip from cut style to volume. Oakey & Giorgio Moroder, British Designer of the Together In Electric Year: Katharine Hamnett. Dreams; , Upside Down; Visual arts: , The Sean Scully, Paul; Lebanon; Malcolm Guillermo Kuitca, Idea of a McLaren, Madam Butterfly; Passion; Debby Davis, Adam Ant, Apollo 9. Visible Pig; Graham LPs: Madonna, Like A Crowley, Table Manners; Virgin; Queen, The Works; Jörg Immendorff, World of Bananarama, Work; Anselm Kiefer, Bananarama; Prince, Nigredo; Paula Rego, The Purple Rain; Bruce Vivian Girls with China. Springsteen, Born In The The Turner Prize is USA; Alphaville, Forever awarded for the first time Young; The Psychedelic (winner: Malcolm Morley, Furs, Mirror Moves; Echo ‘Farewell to Crete’). & the Bunnymen, Ocean d. Tom Keating (Feb 12), Rain; U2, The Lee Krasner (Jun 19). Unforgettable Fire; Talk Talk, It’s My Life; Monsters, Alma Mater.

January Madonna makes her debut UK television appearance on The Tube, performing Holiday in a broadcast from Manchester's Hacienda club. 27 During filming of a Pepsi commercial, a firework explosion causes Michael Jackson's hair to catch fire, leaving the singer needing reconstructive surgery. March March March The Stone Roses form. The Smiths, The Smiths. 6 A twelve month long Brown and Squire, miners’ strike in the British members of the Socialist coal industry begins. Worker’s Party, attend marches supporting the miners’ strike. Brown later changes allegiance to the Workers Revolutionary Party. April April 1 Marvin Gaye is shot 17 Police officer Yvonne dead by his father. Fletcher is shot and killed in London's St James's Square while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy. Her death results in a police siege of the embassy, which lasts for eleven days. 23 Scientists in the United States and identify the AIDS virus. May 30 Liverpool FC defeat AS Roma on penalties in the European Cup final, to complete a treble of League, Milk Cup and European Cup. June 18 Tension escalates in the miners’ strike at ‘the Battle of Orgreave.’ August Alan ‘’ Wren joins the band. October October 23 Hampstead Moonlight, 31 1984 Sikh Massacre: . Following the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards, a massacre directed against Sikhs in northern India begins, causing more than 3,000 deaths. November November November 21 Exeter Labour Club, 25 Band Aid record ‘Do 6 President Reagan is re- England. They Know It's elected by nearly 17 22 Kensington Ad Lib Christmas?’ in order to million votes in a landslide Club, England. raise money for famine victory. relief in Ethiopia. December 2 The Bhopal disaster: a gas leak incident in India, one of the world's worst industrial catastrophes, with an official immediate death toll of 2,259.

1985

Art created by John 45s: Starship, We Built Cinema: Squire in this year: This City; Jennifer Rush, St Elmo’s Fire; The ‘Wreckage By Johnny’. The Power Of Love; Phil Breakfast Club; Back to Collins, Sussudio; Billy the Future; Rambo: First Ocean, When the Going Blood Part II; Rocky IV; Gets Tough, the Tough Brazil; Desperately Get Going; Madonna, Seeking Susan; A View to Crazy for You; Queen, a Kill. One Vision; Eurythhmics, d. Rock Hudson (Oct 2), There Must Be an Angel Orson Welles (Oct 10). (Playing With My Heart); Huey Lewis & the News; Fiction: The Power of Love; The Bret Easton Ellis, Less Cult, She Sells Sanctuary; Than Zero; John Irving, Kate Bush, Running Up The Cider House Rules; That Hill; a-ha, Take on Amy Hempel, Reasons to Me; Duran Duran, A View ; Carl Sagan, Contact. To A Kill; Simple Minds, Don't You (Forget About Non-fiction: Me) & Alive and Kicking; Michael Denton, Evolution: Bryan Adams, Summer of A Theory in Crisis. ’69; , Walking on TV / Media: Sunshine; Level 42, Debuting: EastEnders Something About You; (BBC1); Sandra, (I'll Never Be) premieres in Maria Magdalena; Hall & (Seven Network); Blind Oates, Method of Modern Date (ITV); Saint and Love; Echo & the Greavsie (ITV); MacGyver Bunnymen, Bring on the (ABC); Crosswits (ITV). Dancing Horses; Bryan Ending: The Dukes of Ferry, Slave to Love; Hazzard. Madness, Yesterday’s Men & Uncle Sam; The Fashion: Jesus and Mary Chain, MTV, Madonna and street ; The fashion influences a Pogues, A Pair Of Brown generation. Giorgio Eyes; Tom Petty and the Armani, Fendi by Karl Heartbreakers, Don't Lagerfeld, Genny, Missoni, Come Around Here No Body Map, Zandra More; Stevie Nicks, Talk to Rhodes, Michiko Koshino, Me; David Bowie, Loving Ally Capellino, Mary The Alien; Adam Ant, Vive McFadden, Bill Haire, le Rock; The Clash, This Is Williwear, Matsuda. England. British Designer of the LPs: Prince, Around the Year: Betty Jackson. World in a Day; , Brothers In Arms; Visual arts: Simple Minds, Once Upon Walter Robinson, Black a Time; Kate Bush, Spirit; Antonio Saura, Hounds Of Love; The Crucifixion 3.85. Smiths, Meat Is Murder; d. Clarence John Laughlin , This Is the (Jan 2). Sea; Paul Young, The Secret of Association; The Replacements, Tim; Tears For Fears, Songs From The Big Chair; Talking Heads, Little Creatures.

January 4 Fulham Greyhound, England. N/K London Marquee, England. N/K The Stone Roses go into Spirit Studios, Manchester, to record a demo, produced by Tim Oliver; tracks recorded included ‘Tradjic Roundabout’, ‘Misery Dictionary’ (later entitled ‘So Young’), ‘Mission Impossible’ and ‘Self Respect’ (later entitled ‘Just A Little Bit’). February February 8 London Dingwalls, The Jesus and Mary England. Chain, . March March N/K The Stone Roses are 11 Mikhail Gorbachev booked in to Yellow 2, becomes General Strawberry Recording Secretary of the Soviet Studios, Stockport with Communist Party and de producer . facto leader of the Soviet 15 Kevin Cummins Union. photoshoot at Fletcher Moss Gardens, Manchester. 29 Preston Clouds, England. April April 10 Linkoping Big Bang 28 Dennis Taylor defeats Club, Sweden. Steve Davis 18-17 in an 11 Norkoping Olympia, epic World Snooker Sweden. Championship final. 23 Stockholm Marquee, Sweden. 25 Stockholm Stadion, Sweden. 29 Stockholm Lindigo Stadion, Sweden. 30 Stockholm Lindigo Stadion, Sweden. May May May 10 Manchester The Jesus and Mary 29 Heysel Stadium International 1, England. Chain, You Trip Me Up. disaster. 39 people die at 24 Manchester Gallery, Liverpool v Juventus England. European Cup final. June 1 Battle of the Beanfield. Wiltshire Police prevent several hundred New Age travellers setting up the 1985 Stonehenge . July July 4 Croydon Underground, 13 in England. London and 20 Manchester Flower are watched by over 1.5 Show 1, England. billion people and raise over £50 million for famine victims in Ethiopia. August n / k Manchester Hacienda, England. September September The Stone Roses release 28 Brixton riot, sparked by their debut single, So the shooting of Dorothy Young. 'Cherry' Groce by police. 13 London Embassy Club, England. October 26 London Riverside, England. November November 22 Manchester University, The Jesus and Mary England. Chain, . 30 Manchester Flower Show 2, England. December Mixing of the Roses' Hannett produced material (which would later be released as '') finishes.

1986

Art created by John 45s: Whitney , Cinema: Squire in this year: Greatest Love of All; Top Gun; Crocodile N/A Berlin, Take My Breath ; Platoon; Aliens; Away; Bananarama, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Venus & More Than Blue Velvet; The Color of Physical; Madonna, Live to Money; Pretty in Pink; The Tell; The Stranglers, Mission; Labyrinth. ; Bruce d. James Cagney (Mar Hornsby & the Range, The 30). Way It Is; New Order, ; Pet Fiction: Shop Boys, Suburbia; Stephen King, It; Thomas Prince, Kiss; Peter Gabriel, Bernhard, Extinction; Sledgehammer; The Margaret Atwood, The Pretenders, Don't Get Me Handmaid's Tale; Lorrie Wrong; The Blow Moore, Anagrams; Primo Monkeys, Digging Your Levi, The Drowned and Scene; Eurythhmics, the Saved. Thorn In My Side; a-ha, The Sun Always Shines Non-fiction: On TV; Mr. Fingers, Can Marcel Lefebvre, Open You Feel It; , Letter to Confused Sometimes; David Bowie, Catholics; Richard Absolute Beginners; Rhodes, The Making of , Holding Back the Atomic Bomb. The Years; Run-DMC and , Walk This Way; TV / Media: The Bangles, Manic Debuting: Strike It Lucky Monday & Walk Like an (ITV); Comic Relief Egyptian; , (BBC1); Casualty (BBC1); Don’t Dream It’s Over; Blackadder II (BBC); Heart, These Dreams; Catchphrase (1986); Cyndi Lauper, True Colors; Takeshi's Castle (Tokyo Paul Young, Wonderland; Broadcasting System); Grange Hill Cast, Just Say Jossy’s Giants (BBC1). No; , Ending: Knight Rider. Higher Love; Desireless, Voyage Voyage; The Fashion: Human League, Human; The year of 'power ., Rise; dressing'. Aggressive AC/DC, ; suits and shoulder pads The Jesus and Mary reflected women's success Chain, Some Candy in the workplace and Talking; Stevie Nicks, I television shows like Can’t Wait; Mental As Dynasty and Dallas. Karl Anything, Live It Up. Lagerfeld, Christian Dior, LPs: Queen, A Kind of Chanel, Gianni Versace, Magic; Huey Lewis & the Moschino, John Galliano, News; Fore!; The Smiths, Katharine Hamnett, Betsey The Queen Is Dead; Paul Johnson, Marc Jacobs, Simon, Graceland; Donna Karan. Genesis, Invisible Touch; British Designer of the , Licensed to Year: Jasper Conran. Ill; The Chameleons, Strange Times. Visual arts: Anselm Kiefer, Belief, January January Hope, Love; Enzo Cucchi, 4 frontman Phil 28 Space shuttle Entry into Port of a Ship Lynott dies of heart failure Challenger explodes on with a Red Rose Aboard. and pneumonia. take-off at Cape d. Georgia O’Keeffe (Mar Canaveral, . All 6), Brion Gysin (Jul 13). seven astronauts onboard are killed. February Sigue Sigue Sputnik’s Love Missile F1-11 goes to No. 2 in the UK chart. March 5 Blackburn King George’s Hall, England. 25 Warwick University, England. April 26 Soviet nuclear plant at Chernobyl explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. May May 10 Manchester University 7 The Jesus and Mary Students Union, England. Chain play Manchester 31 Dublin McGonagles, Hacienda. Ian Brown and Republic of Ireland. Andy John Squire are in Couzens' last gig. attendance. June June 8 The Mandella Building, 22 Maradona scores with Manchester. the ‘Hand of God’ for n / k Warehouse, Argentina against England England. in the World Cup. His n / k London Three second goal in a 2-1 Crowns, England. victory is later voted Goal of the Century. July 7 Manchester Ritz, England. August 11 Liverpool Mardi Gras, England. September 27 Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera has its first preview. November November Over bowls of spaghetti 13 The Iran-Contra Affair: bolognese, The Stone one week after denying on Roses sign a contract with national TV that his Gareth Evans. Administration helped sell arms to Iran, President Ronald Reagan returned to the airwaves to affirm that weapons were indeed transferred to Iran.

1987

Art created by John 45s: Michael Jackson, Cinema: Squire in this year: Bad & The Way You Make Emperor ; Fatal N/A Me Feel; , Attraction; Beverly Hills Never Gonna Give You Cop II; The Untouchables; Up; , I Lethal Weapon; Dirty Wanna Dance with Dancing; Wall Street; Somebody (Who Loves Mannequin. Me); , Locomotion & I Should Be Fiction: So Lucky; Starship, Tom Clancy, Patriot Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Games; Stephen King, Now; , Misery; Terry Pratchett, Heaven Is a Place on Mort; Bret Easton Ellis, Earth; Jan Hammer, The Rules of Attraction; Crockett's Theme; Margaret Drabble, The Bananarama, I Heard a Radiant Way; James Rumour & Love in the First Ellroy, The Black Dahlia. Degree; , Just Like Heaven; The Pogues Non-fiction: feat. Kirsty MacColl, Paul Kennedy, The Rise ; and Fall of the Great T’Pau, China In Your Powers. Hand; Tiffany, I Think We’re Alone Now; Black, TV / Media: Wonderful Life; Madonna, Debuting: Inspector Morse Who's That Girl?; George (ITV); Knightmare (ITV); Michael and Aretha ChuckleVision (BBC1); Franklin, I Knew You Were Going Live! (BBC1); Going Waiting (For Me); George for Gold (BBC1); Teenage Michael, Faith; Pet Shop Mutant Hero Turtles Boys, Always On My Mind; (BBC); Beadle's About Steve 'Silk' Hurley, Jack (ITV); Simon and the Your Body; Fleetwood Witch (CBBC). Mac, Little Lies; Derrick Ending: The A-Team; The May, Strings Of Life; Old Grey Whistle Test. , Got My Mind Set On You; The Fashion: Jesus and Mary Chain, Giorgio Armani suits up April Skies & Happy When The Untouchables for the It Rains; Suzanne Vega, silver screen. Hemlines Luka; , rise thigh high. Azzedine Somewhere In My Heart; Alaia, Jasper Conran, New Order, True Faith; Pet , Shop Boys feat. Dusty Katharine Hamnett, Bob Springfield, What Have I Mackie. Done to Deserve This?; British Designer of the Climie Fisher, Love Year: John Galliano. Changes Everything; The La’s, Way Out; Bruce Visual arts: Springsteen, Brilliant Ross Bleckner, Knights Disguise; Kissing the Pink, Not Nights; R.B. Kitaj, The One Step; Taylor Dayne, Cubist. Tell It to My Heart; d. Andy Warhol (Feb 22). , Here I Go Again; Sinead O’Connor, Mandinka; Enya, I Want Tomorrow. LPs: Michael Jackson, Bad; Prince, Sign “O” The Times; , Faith; INXS, Kick; Eric B. & Rakim, Paid in Full; , Hysteria; , Tunnel of Love; R.E.M., Document; , Actually; Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen; Level 42, Running in the Family; The Smiths, Strangeways Here We Come; , Sonic Flower Groove.

January 30 Manchester International 1, England. March 9 U2, The Joshua Tree. May is released. June June 26 Manchester 11 Margaret Thatcher wins International 1, England. third term as British PM. July n / k Liverpool Planet X, England. n / k Sheffield Take-Two, England. August August 11 Liverpool Larks In The 10 Guns N’ Roses, Park, England. Pete Appetite For Destruction. Garner’s last gig with the The Smiths split up. band. September September Rob Hampson very briefly The Jesus and Mary joins the band on bass. Chain, Darklands. November November Gary '' Mounfield joins 8 Remembrance Day the band. bombing: Eleven people 13 Manchester are killed, and many more International 1, England. injured, when a Mani’s first gig. Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb explodes at the cenotaph in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

1988

Art created by John 45s: Michael Jackson, Cinema: Squire in this year: Man in the Mirror & Rain Man; Die ; Who ‘Bye Bye Badman’ (oil on Smooth Criminal; Guns N' Framed Roger Rabbit; canvas, 31" x 26.5"); Roses, Sweet Child O' Cocktail; Moonwalker; ‘Cody Calling’ (oil on Mine; Kylie Minogue and Coming to America; Big; canvas, 61" x 28"); , Twins. ‘’ (calico on Especially for You; New wood, 18" x 18"); ‘Sugar’ Kids on the Block, You Got Fiction: (oil on canvas, 32" x 32"); It (The Right Stuff); INXS, Salman Rushdie, The ‘Waterfall’ (oil on canvas, New Sensation & Never Satanic Verses; Paulo 30" x 26"); ‘Untitled 1’ (oil Tear Us Apart; Milli Vanilli, Coelho, The Alchemist; on canvas, 64” x 22”); Girl You Know It's True; Umberto Eco, Foucault's ‘Untitled 2’ (oil on canvas, Traveling Wilburys, Handle Pendulum; Edmund White, 48" x 26.5”); ‘Untitled 3’ (oil with Care; My Bloody The Beautiful Room Is on cotton, 3.24m x 2.20m). Valentine, You Made Me Empty. Realise; Dinosaur Jr., Freak Scene; Bomb The Non-fiction: Bass, Megablast; Neneh Marcel Lefebvre, They Cherry, Buffalo Stance; Have Uncrowned Him; Prince, Glam Slam; Prefab , A Brief Sprout, Cars and Girls & History of Time. The King of Rock 'N' Roll; Roachford, Cuddly Toy; TV / Media: Sabrina, Boys Death on the Rock (ITV). (Summertime Love); Enya, Debuting: Whose Line Is It Orinoco Flow; Jane Anyway? (Ch 4); Rab C. Wiedlin, Rush Hour; Nesbitt (BBC One , ); Red Dwarf Everywhere; Deacon Blue, (BBC2); Roseanne (ABC); Real Gone Kid; Boy Meets Home and Away (Channel Girl, Waiting for a Star to Seven); The Wonder Fall; The Jesus and Mary Years (ABC); You Bet ! Chain, ; Pet (ITV); This Morning (ITV); Shop Boys, Left to My Fair City (RTE One). Own Devices; Siouxsie & Ending: Magnum, P.I.; the Banshees, Peek-A- Cagney & Lacey. Boo; The Madness, I Pronounce You. Fashion: LPs: Public Enemy, It Florals and crinoline. Takes a Nation of Millions Proportions changed with to Hold Us Back; a-ha, shaped jackets and wide Stay on These Roads; leg pants. Chanel, Prince, Lovesexy; U2, Christian Lacroix, Jean Rattle & Hum; Eric B. & Paul Gaultier, Moschino, Rakim, Follow the Leader; Byblos, Missoni, Biagiotti, The House of Love, The John Galliano, Vivienne House of Love; Sonic Westwood, Betty Jackson. Youth, Daydream Nation; British Designer of the Shack, Zilch; My Bloody Year: Rifat Ozbek. Valentine, Isn’t Anything; Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden; Visual arts: The Pogues, If I Should Gerhard Richter, October Fall From Grace with God; 18, 1977; Magdolna Ban, , Viva Hate. 1956. Exhibitions: Freeze, January Surrey , London. n / k London Dingwalls, d. Jean-Michel Basquiat England. (Aug 12). February 28 The Stone Roses attend a march in Manchester protesting against Clause 28. March March n / k Manchester 16 Ulster Defence International 1, England. Association (UDA) member Michael Stone attacks mourners with grenades and pistols at Milltown Cemetery, , killing three and wounding over sixty. April The Jesus and Mary Chain, Barbed Wire Kisses. May May 30 Anti-Clause 28 gig at 24 Clause 28 introduced. Manchester International 2, England. Liam and are in attendance. September September 6 Pollocked glass photo Steffi Graf becomes the session at manager only tennis player to win Gareth Evans' farm in the ‘Golden Slam’ – . capturing all four Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal in the same year. October The Stone Roses sign with Silvertone Records and release the single Elephant Stone. November November n / k Central London 8 George Bush (snr) is Polytechnic, England. elected US president. 18 Legends, England. 19 Manchester International 2, England. 26 St Helens Citadel, England. 29 Chester Olives, England. December December 7 University of Ulster, 21 Lockerbie Bombing: Jordanstown campus, Pan Am Flight 103 from Belfast, Northern Ireland. London Heathrow Airport The Stone Roses also to New York's John F. played the Coleraine Kennedy International campus of the University Airport is destroyed by a of Ulster (exact date bomb, killing all 243 unknown) in Northern passengers and 16 crew Ireland at this time. members. Eleven people 11 Venue, in Lockerbie, in southern Scotland. Scotland, were killed as large sections of the plane fell in and around the town, bringing total fatalities to 270.

1989

Art created by John 45s: Black Box, Ride On Cinema: Squire in this year: Time; Soul II Soul, Back to Batman; Indiana Jones ‘Don’t Stop’ (oil on canvas, Life (However Do You and the Last Crusade; Do 3' x 5'); ‘Double Dorsal Want Me); New Kids on the Right Thing; Uncle Doppelganger One’ the Block, Hangin' Tough; Buck; Do the Right Thing; (cellulose on canvas, 24" x Jive Bunny & the Back to the Future Part II; 28"); ‘Our Dreams Mastermixers, Swing the Ghostbusters II; When (Collaboration With Mood, That's What I Like & Harry Met Sally...; Dead Jamie)’ (acrylic, household Let's Party; Jason Poets Society; Honey, I gloss on plywood, 4' x 8')’; Donovan, Too Many Shrunk the Kids; My Left ‘Toaster’ (oil on toaster). Broken Hearts; Milli Vanilli, Foot. Squire also 'Pollocked' the Girl I'm Gonna Miss You; d. (Jul NME logo for their Beatmasters feat. Betty 11), Bette Davis (Oct 6). Christmas issue (23rd/30th Boo, Hey DJ/I Can't Dance December 1989), on which (To That Music You're Fiction: the band appeared on the Playing); Fine Young James Kelman, A cover. Cannibals, She Drives Me Disaffection; E.L. Crazy; Electronic, Getting Doctorow, Billy Bathgate; Away with It; Doug Lazy, Alice Walker, The Temple Let It Roll; Tears For of My Familiar; John le Fears, Sowing The Seeds Carré, The Russia House. Of Love; The Bangles, d. Daphne du Maurier (Apr Eternal Flame; Debbie 19). Malone, Rescue Me; Jimi Polo , Free Yourself / Non-fiction: Better Days; Raul Charles Shaar Murray, Orellana, The Real Wild Crosstown Traffic. House; Transvision Vamp, Baby, I Don’t Care & Born TV / Media: To Be Sold; Donna Debuting: Dekalog; The Summer, This Time I Seinfeld Chronicles (NBC); Know It's ; Chris Baywatch (NBC); The Isaak, Wicked Game; The Simpsons premieres on B-52's, Love Shack; Guru FOX with a special Josh, Infinity; The Jesus Christmas episode; and Mary Chain, Head On; Through The Dragon's , Toy Soldiers; Tom Eye (BBC 2); Saved By Petty, I Won’t Back Down The Bell (NBC); John's & Free Fallin’. Not Mad (BBC1); Fun LPs: , 3 Feet House (ITV). High and Rising; Gloria Ending: Dynasty; Miami Estefan, Cuts Both Ways; Vice. Motley Crue, Dr. Feelgood; d. Lucille Ball (Apr 26), Mel Beastie Boys, Paul's Blanc (Jul 10). Boutique; N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton; , Fashion: Ninety; , Heart of The design world loses Stone; Pixies, Doolittle; Vogue editor Diana Young MC, Stone Cold Vreeland. Colour craze in Rhymin'; Prince, Batman; fashion. Romeo Gigli, The Pogues, Peace and Genny, Gianfranco Ferre, Love; Kate Bush, The Bruce Oldfield, Donna Sensual World; Nirvana, Karan, Ralph Lauren, Bleach; David Bowie, Tin Perry Ellis, Isaac Mizrahi, Machine. Issey Miyake, Patrick Kelly, Chantal Thomass. January January British Designer of the The Stone Roses perform 7 Hirohito, Emperor of Year: Workers for Waterfall on The Other Japan dies. Freedom. Side Of Midnight at 20 George H. W. Bush Granada Studios, succeeds Ronald Reagan Visual arts: Manchester. as the 41st President of d. Salvador Dalí (Jan 23). the USA. 22 defeat Bengals 20-16 to win Super Bowl XXIII. Joe Montana’s winning touchdown pass to John Taylor comes with just 34 seconds remaining in the game. February February is 2 The Satellite television released. service 'Sky Television plc' 20 Sheffield University, is launched in Europe. England. Ian Brown’s 26th 15 The Soviet Union birthday. officially announces that 23 Middlesex Polytechnic, all of its troops have left England. Afghanistan. 27 Manchester Hacienda, 24 Ayatollah Ruhollah England. Khomeini places a $3- 28 Escape Club, million bounty on the head England. of 'The Satanic Verses' author Salman Rushdie. March March March 1 Bradford Club Rio, 2 First airing of Madonna’s 20 Australian Prime England. Pepsi commercial, which is Minister Bob Hawke 2 Coal Exchange, , subsequently pulled, due breaks down on national Wales. to the controversial nature television as he admits 3 Warrington Legends, of her forthcoming Like a marital infidelity. England. Prayer video. The 24 Exxon Valdez oil slick 11 The Buzz Club, commercial is part of one disaster. Aldershot, England. ‘Made of the most expensive of Stone’ gets ‘Single of advertising campaigns the Week’ in the NME. ever mounted, and breaks 15 London Powerhouse, new ground for the pop England. and advertising industries, 17 Sunderland, England. promoting a product and 18 Junction 10, Walsall, launching a single at the England (rearranged to same time. 3rd June). 21 Madonna, Like a 23 Shrewsbury Fridge, Prayer LP. England (rearranged to 25th May and moved to a different venue). April April 10 Reni’s 25th birthday. 1 Margaret Thatcher's new 13 , England. local government Poll tax 24 Brunel University, is introduced in Scotland. England. 15 : a 28 Portsmouth South human crush at the Parade Pier, England. Liverpool v Forest F.A. Cup semi-final causes the loss of 96 lives. 21 Students from , Shanghai, Xian, and Nanjing begin protesting in Tiananmen Square. May May 2 The Stone Roses is 14 Mikhail Gorbachev released. visits China, the first 4 Liverpool Polytechnic, Soviet leader to do so England. since the 1960s. 5 Widnes Queens Hall, 26 Arsenal’s Michael Victoria Road, England. Thomas scores in the final 6 Manchester International seconds at Anfield to 2, England. clinch the league title, and 7 Sheffield Polytechnic, deny Liverpool a second England. League and F.A. Cup 8 Leeds Warehouse, double. England. 11 Trent Polytechnic, England. 13 Tonbridge Angel Centre, England. 15 London ICA, England. The show coincides with a transport strike that paralyses the ; the venue is far from full as a result. 17 Birmingham Edwards No. 8, England. 19 Aberystwyth University, Wales. 22 London Dingwalls, England. 24 Oxford Polytechnic, England. 25 Shrewsbury Park Lane, England. 26 Milton Keynes Elektra, England (cancelled due to recording of B-sides for at London's RAK Studios). 27 St Helens Citadel, England (cancelled due to recording). 30 Preston Guildhall Flyer, England. June June 3 Walsall Junction 10, 4 The Tiananmen Square England. massacre takes place in 6 Reading Majestic, Beijing on the army's England. approach to the square. 7 Leicester University, The final stand-off is England. covered live on television. 8 Lancaster University, England. 12 Wigan Pier Club, England (cancelled). 20 Newcastle Riverside, England. 21 Edinburgh Venue, Scotland. 22 Rooftops, Scotland. 23 Middlesbrough Town Hall, England. 24 Northampton Roadmenders, England. 25 Norwich Arts Centre, England. 26 Bierkeller, England. 27 Stratford-On-Avon Civic Hall, England. 28 Birmingham Irish Centre, England. 30 Leeds Polytechnic Ents Hall, England. July July 13 She Bangs The Drums 14 France celebrates the is released. 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. August August 5 She Bangs The Drums 20 Fifty-one people die peaks at Number 36. when the 'Marchioness' 12 Blackpool Empress pleasure boat collides with Ballroom, England. a barge on the River 23 The band commence Thames, adjacent to work on Fool’s Gold at Southwark Bridge. Sawmills Studio, Cornwall. 22 Huey P. Newton, co- founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, is fatally shot. September September September 23 Valencia Barraca, The Jesus and Mary 20 F.W. de Klerk is sworn Spain. Chain, Automatic. in as President of South 28 Milan Africa. Festival, Italy. October October 1 Dienze Futurama, 17 The Loma Prieta Belgium. earthquake strikes the San 3 Club Logo, Francisco Bay Area of Germany. California. 4 Luxor Club, 19 The Guildford Four are Germany. freed after fourteen years 9 Amsterdam Melkweg, in jail, having been The . wrongfully convicted for 12 Les Inrockuptibles bombings carried out by Festival, Paris, France the Provisional IRA. alongside The La’s and Felt. 23 Kawasaki Club Chitta, Japan. 24 Tokyo Kan-i Hoken Hall, Nihon Seinenkan, Japan. 25 Mainichi Hall, Japan. 27 Tokyo Kan-i Hoken Hall, Nihon Seinenkan, Japan. November November 1 Fool’s Gold/What The 9 East Germany opens World Is Waiting For is checkpoints in the Berlin released. Wall, allowing its citizens 5 At a studio in to travel freely to West Manchester, Kevin Germany for the first time Cummins photographs the in many decades. The band for an NME cover. next day, celebrating The studio is turned into a Germans begin tearing the polythene cube, with the rest of the wall down. band ‘Pollocking’ themselves with paint. After two hours, the shoot is over and the band walk through Manchester City center - dripping in multi coloured paint - to Ian Brown’s flat to shower it off. The handprints are still down the stairwell of the building. 16 Mani’s 27th birthday. 18 , London, England. The event is recorded by Granada TV, but the Roses’ management pull the plug on the proposed Great North Show documentary and the footage languishes in the company’s vaults. The post-gig party is in an old recording studio on London’s Holloway Road. 21 The Late Show, England ( BBC2). Forty seconds into Made Of Stone, the ‘limiter switch’ automatically cuts the power as the volume exceeds BBC regulations. Presenter Tracey MacLeod’s attempts to read an autocue are hampered by Ian Brown shouting “Amateurs! Amateurs!” at studio staff. “We’re wasting our time here lads...can’t get things sorted out on this programme”, he continues. 23 Fool's Gold appearance, England, with . Both bands are interviewed by Nick Kent for The Face. His piece upsets both bands due to inaccuracies. 24 John Squire’s 27th birthday. December December 2 Fool's Gold peaks at 25 Romanian leader Number 8. Nicolae Ceausescu and 21 An application is made his wife Elena are to Halton Borough Council executed after their to hold the unsuccessful escape event. attempt. The Stone Roses are interviewed for NME’s Christmas issue; Squire pollocks the NME logo on the cover.

1990

Art created by John 45s: Vanilla Ice, Ice Ice Cinema: Squire in this year: Baby; Snap!, The Power; Home Alone; Goodfellas; ‘One Love’ (cellulose and MC Hammer, U Can't Pretty Woman; Teenage paper, sand and oil on Touch This; Madonna, Mutant Ninja Turtles; Total calico, 18" x 18"); ‘Spike Vogue; Luciano Pavarotti, Recall; Jacob’s Ladder; Island’ (acrylic on calico, Nessun Dorma; N-Joi, Days of Thunder; The 40" x 32"). Anthem; Kylie Minogue, Field; Dick Tracy. Better the Devil You Know; d. Margaret Lockwood (Jul The La’s, There She 15). Goes; Happy Mondays, Step On; Adamski feat. Fiction: , Killer; George William Boyd, Brazzaville Michael, Freedom ’90 Beach; Tom Clancy, Clear (accompanying video is a and Present Danger; defining one of the Michael Crichton, Jurassic Supermodels era, Park; James Ellroy, L.A. featuring Linda Confidential. Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Christy Non-fiction: Turlington, Cindy Crawford Bert Hölldobler & E. O. and Estelle); New Order, Wilson, The Ants. ; The Charlatans, The Only One TV / Media: I Know; INXS, Suicide Debuting: One Foot in the Blonde & Disappear; Saint Grave (BBC1); Mr Bean Etienne, Only Love Can (ITV); Harry Enfield's Break Your Heart; Sinead Television Programme O'Connor, Nothing (BBC2); Twin Peaks Compares 2 U; Betty Boo, (ABC); The Fresh Prince Doin' the Do & Where Are of Bel-Air (NBC); Beverly You Baby?; Zoë, Sunshine Hills, 90210 (FOX); Have I on a Rainy Day; Elton Got News for You (BBC2); John, Sacrifice; Paris Big Night Out Angels, Perfume; The (Ch4); Farm, Groovy Train & All (Ch4). Together Now; Divinyls, I Ending: The Tracey Touch Myself; Maria Ullman Show. McKee, Show Me Heaven; Lush, Sweetness and Fashion: Light; The B-52's, Roam. Introduction of microfibers LPs: George Michael, and high tech fabrics. Listen Without Prejudice Form fitting shapes. Vol. 1; The La’s, The La’s; Global style dominated Ride, Nowhere; Mariah with ethnic, exotic clothes. Carey, ; Callaghan, Krizia, Workers Cocteau Twins, Heaven or For Freedom, Alistair Blair, Las Vegas; Sinead Betty Jackson, Carolyn O’Connor, I Do Not Want Roehm, Rebecca Moses, What I Haven't Got; The Carmelo Pomodoro, Isaac Durutti Column, Obey the Mizrahi. Time. British Designer of the Year: Vivienne Westwood. January January 30 The Stone Roses, 9 Paul Lim becomes the Visual arts: accompanied by road first darts player to John LeKay, Ring a Ring manager Steve Adge, achieve a nine dart finish of Roses; Susan drive up to in a World Championship. Rothenberg, Greenfield. from in 13 Phil Taylor wins his first Exhibitions: British Art South Wales (where they World Darts Show at are recording with John Championship, defeating includes work by Young Leckie) to visit the house mentor Eric Bristow 6-1 in British Artists. of FM Revolver Records sets. d. Keith Haring (Feb 16). boss Paul Birch. Unhappy at the label’s re-release of their 1987 single ‘Sally Cinnamon’ – specifically its accompanying video – they throw blue and white paint over Birch (35) and his girlfriend Olivia Darling (22). Ian Brown puts a brick through Birch’s £25,000 Mercedes. 31 The band and Steve Adge are arrested: Brown, Squire and Reni in their hotel near the studio, while Mani and Steve Adge walk into Monmouth police station to give themselves up. All are taken to Wolverhampton. Steve Adge is released without charge. February February 1 The Stone Roses are 11 Nelson Mandela, released on bail. leader of the African 7 The Stone Roses serve National Congress, is a writ on Revolver to stop freed from prison by the the Sally Cinnamon video South African government, being shown. signaling of 12 The hearing is Apartheid in South Africa. adjourned for three weeks. 19 Elephant Stone, the band’s 1988 debut single for Silvertone, is re-issued. They begin two days of international interviews at London’s Tara Hotel. The British press are not invited. 20 Ian Brown’s 27th birthday. 26 Made Of Stone re- issued. March March March 3 Elephant Stone peaks at 20 Public Enemy, Fear of 31 Poll tax riot at Trafalgar Number 8. a Black Planet. Square, London, involving 6 The Stone Roses appear approximately 200,000 at Wolverhampton people. Magistrates’ Court charged with criminal damage over the Revolver incident. The case is adjourned when the defence and prosecution fail to agree on a figure for damages. The entire hearing lasts for less than 60 seconds. 10 The case is adjourned to give Revolver time to prepare their defence. NME reports that the band have lost the initial injunction. 17 Made Of Stone peaks at Number 20. 31 The NME reports that Ian Brown was spotted in London’s Cafe De Paris, “holding an animated conversation with the entire Liverpool football team.” April April April N/K In London, The Stone Happy Mondays, Pills 'n' 1 Strangeways Prison riot: Roses perform One Love Thrills and Bellyaches. a 25-day prison riot and on Hit Studio International. 13 Madonna's Blond rooftop protest at 10 Reni’s 26th birthday. Ambition World Tour kicks Strangeways Prison in 12 Wolverhampton off in Tokyo. Manchester sparks a Magistrates’ Court. series of disturbances in Adjourned until the 26th, prisons across England, and committed to Crown Scotland and Wales. Court. 18 Ian Brown is spotted in London’s Charing Cross Road after coming down with his father, Vincent, to see their team – Warrington – lose 36-14 to Wigan in the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final at Wembley. 26 Wolverhampton Crown Court. May 4 One Love video shoot. 5 The Stone Roses refuse to appear at Feria De Nimes Festival in France because of its bullfighting connections. “We don’t want a ritual slaughter as a support act,” says a spokesman. 14 The carries a news story about a shooting at Manchester International, the club previously managed by the Roses’ manager, Gareth Evans. The Stone Roses are there, along with Tim Booth and Saul Davies from James. 15 Patrol, Denmark. 16 Lund, Sweden. FM Revolver court case comes up again. 17 Stockholm Fryshuset, Sweden. 19 Oslo, . 26 At a pre-Spike Island press conference in Manchester’s Piccadilly Hotel, the band successfully bait press from all around the world. “What will you be doing in five years?” asks the Daily Star. “What a stupid question,” retorts Ian Brown. 27 Spike Island, Widnes, England. 28,000 attend the all-day concert on an island in the Mersey Estuary. The Stone Roses are the only band to play – the rest of the music is provided by DJs Frankie Knuckles, Gary Clail, Haslam and Dave Booth. The band perform a 75- minute set of songs on a gloriously sunny day. The queue for alcohol is two hours long and cigarettes are unavailable. Backstage, freeloading journalists are appalled to learn that the only free drink on offer is Coca Cola. June 3 Festival, Finland. 7 Maysfield Leisure Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 9 Glasgow Green, Scotland. 8,000 people cram into a tent to witness The Stone Roses’ last live appearance for almost five years (and Reni’s last ever live appearance with the band). After the gig, the band return to the Sub Club, where they party until 7.30am. The NME reports that the release of the band’s next single, One Love, is to be delayed, pending new cover art, because of the resemblance to a swastika in John Squire’s original painting. “Anyone who knows us knows we’re not Nazis,” explains Ian Brown in a Select interview, “but if some kid in goes into a bar with a T- shirt on – Stone Roses, looking a bit like a swastika – ends up getting stabbed. How would we feel then?” 21 , USA (cancelled). “America doesn’t deserve us yet,” a press release on this date reads. 22 New York, USA (cancelled). 29 Hollywood High School Gymnasium, USA (cancelled). 30 San Francisco, USA (cancelled). July One Love / Something’s July Burning is released. 4 England lose 4-3 on 11 The Stone Roses pull penalties to West out of an appearance on Germany in a dramatic Wogan after a dispute World Cup semi final. over the length of their 8 West Germany defeat slot. The band want to be Argentina 1-0 to win the interviewed by Terry World Cup. Wogan, but the BBC merely require a mimed performance of One Love. 14 Sounds reports that rumours of the band trying to set up a gig in Beirut are true, but according to a spokesman “logistically improbable”. One Love peaks at Number 4. 28 NME carries a picture of Mani with his new short haircut. Reni turns up to the opening of Central Station Design’s exhibition in wearing a sou’wester and wading boots. August 22 The music press August reports that The Stone 24 Brian Keenan is Roses have “left” their released after being held contract with Silvertone – five years as hostage in poached by an as yet Lebanon by Islamic Jihad. unnamed company; In the same month, Silvertone put an injunction on the band, preventing them from recording for another label. October , Somewhere October October Soon. 9 Paris, The Devil Made 3 German reunification. 5 At Wolverhampton Me Do It (LP). Crown Court, The Stone Roses are fined £3,000 each, plus £95 costs, for the Revolver paint- throwing incident. Damages are deferred. The band are described by their defence as “four young men with an obsessive regard for music.” November 16 Mani’s 28th birthday. November 24 John Squire’s 28th 1 Thatcher’s refusal to birthday. consider European integration prompts Geoffrey Howe, Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, to resign, hastening Thatcher's own downfall three weeks later. 18 Chris Eubank defeats Nigel Benn in the ninth round of their WBO world middleweight championship contest. 28 John Major succeeds Margaret Thatcher as UK Prime Minister.

1991

Art created by John 45s: Michael Jackson, Cinema: Squire in this year: Black or White; Bryan Terminator 2: Judgment N/A Adams, (Everything I Do) I Day; The Silence of the Do It for You & Can't Stop Lambs; JFK; Sleeping with This Thing We Started; the Enemy. Marc Cohn, Walking in Memphis; R.E.M., Losing Fiction: My Religion & Shiny Bret Easton Ellis, Happy People; Cher, The American Psycho; Harold Shoop Shoop Song; 2Pac, Brodkey, The Runaway Brenda's Got A Baby; P.M. Soul; Douglas Coupland, Dawn, Set Adrift on Generation X: Tales for an Memory Bliss; The Future Accelerated Culture; John Sound of London, Papua Grisham, The Firm. New Guinea; Massive d. Graham Greene (Apr 3), Attack, Unfinished Dr. Seuss (Sep 24). Sympathy; Roxette, Joyride; Prince (& the Non-fiction: NPG), Diamonds and Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Pearls; , Myth. Everybody in the Place; Electronic, Get the TV / Media: Message; Shanice, I Love Debuting: The Jerry Your Smile; Tom Petty and Springer Show the Heartbreakers, (Syndication); Noel's Learning To Fly; Queen, House Party (BBC); Big These Are the Days of Our Break (BBC); The Brittas Lives; Chapterhouse, Empire (BBC); Rugrats Pearl; Slowdive, (Nickelodeon). Morningrise EP; Siouxsie Ending: Dallas. & the Banshees, Kiss Them for Me; Spin Fashion: Doctors, Two Princes; Rap music influences Mock Turtles, Can U Dig fashion with leather and It?. chains. Moschino, Gianni LPs: Michael Jackson, Versace, Katharine Dangerous; My Bloody Hamnett, Arabella Pollen, Valentine, Loveless; Geoffrey Beene, Oscar de R.E.M., Out Of Time; Pearl la Renta, Carmelo Jam, Ten; 2Pac, Pomodoro. 2Pacalypse Now; Primal British Designer of the Scream, ; Year: Vivienne Westwood. , Blue Lines; Orbital, The Green Visual arts: ; Red Hot Chili Damien Hirst, The Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Physical Impossibility of ; The KLF, The Death in the Mind of White Room; 808 State, Someone Living; Marc Ex:el; , The Orb's Quinn, Self; David Austen, Adventures Beyond The On the Edge of Night. Ultraworld; Saint Etienne, Exhibitions: Young British Foxbase Alpha; Blur, Artists exhibitions at Leisure; Northside, Saatchi Gallery; Damien Chicken Rhythms; The Hirst solo exhibition at Real People, The Real Institute of Contemporary People; Genesis, We Can’t Arts. Dance.

January January 13 The Stone Roses book 17 Hostilities in the Gulf into Bluestone rehearsal War commence. studio in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. February February February 10 The Rumbelows Manchester's Hacienda 7 The IRA launches a League Cup semi final first closes down following mortar attack on 10 leg is underway at Old repeated threats of gang Downing Street while the Trafford. As (formerly of violence. War Cabinet is in session. Manchester United) Leeds 20 Kenny Dalglish resigns United midfielder Gordon as manager of Liverpool Strachan goes over FC. advertising hoardings, a disillusioned Mancunian fan in the crowd spits on him. It is Mani – making an unexpected live TV comeback. 20 Ian Brown’s 28th birthday. 23 The NME quotes insiders in the Roses camp as saying the band have enough new material to fill two new LPs. March March 4-6 Silvertone try to have 3 L.A. police officers are the 1988 contract with the caught on video beating band declared Rodney King. enforceable, and seek an 14 Two years after the injunction to stop the release of the Guildford group recording for any Four, the Birmingham Six other company. The are freed. interim injunction stays in place pending the outcome of the case. 18-22 The Stone Roses appear in the Law Courts in The Strand, London, to hear the testimony of Geoffrey Howard, their solicitor at the time of signing the Silvertone deal. Later in the week, the band’s lawyer, John Kennedy, reveals that they had been offered $4 million to sign for Geffen records. Rumours start of a Roses summer concert. 23 reports Ian Brown saying that if the case went against them, the band would give up music and go on the dole. 25-26 The band appear in court in connection with the Silvertone contract – although Reni is ill and cannot attend. The reasons behind the band’s non-appearance on Wogan in July ’89 are discussed. It is revealed in court that Roses’ manager Gareth Evans’ real name is Ian Bromley. He changed it while working at Vidal Sassoon in the ‘60s. April April The Silvertone court case 15 Blur, There’s No Other continues. Way. 10 Reni’s 27th birthday. 23 Johnny Thunders dies. May The Stone Roses win their Silvertone court case and sign to Geffen for a reputed £20 million, with an initial advance of £2.3 million. The band resume rehearsals in a rented house in North Manchester but proceedings are cut short when Squire flies to Tenerife with girlfriend Helen. John and Reni travel to the European Cup Winners’ Cup final in Rotterdam to see Manchester United defeat Barcelona 2-1. June June Silvertone announce they 25 Croatia and Slovenia are to appeal against the declare independence court's verdict. from . Proceedings are not expected to start for nine months. August August Reni appears at Oasis form in Manchester. Manchester Magistrates 28 Vince Taylor dies. Court on four charges, including threatening behaviour and illegal parking. He pleads not guilty. September September Reni’s girlfriend gives birth 24 Nirvana, Nevermind. to a son, Cody. Reni is cleared by Manchester magistrates on charges of disorderly behaviour and police obstruction. He admits two offences - parking in a no waiting area and causing an obstruction - and is fined £50. Ian Brown returns to Strawberry Studios with tour manager Steve 'Adge' Atherton to buy back 16 old session tapes - produced by Martin Hannett - from 1985. ‘’ is released. September 21 Michael Watson is left in a coma after a WBO super middleweight title bout with Chris Eubank. November 19 U2, Achtung Baby. 24 dies of AIDS. 27 Nirvana perform Smells Like Teen Spirit on Top of the Pops, with Cobain singing in a deliberately low voice.

1992

Art created by John 45s: Nirvana, Come As Cinema: Squire in this year: You Are, Lithium & In Batman Returns; A Few N/A Bloom; Shakespear’s Good Men; Wayne’s Sister, Stay; Take That, World; Basic Instinct; The Could It Be Magic; Bodyguard; Reservoir Whitney Houston, I Will Dogs; Glengarry Glen Always Love You; Snap, Ross; A League of Their Rhythm is a Dancer; Own. Charles & Eddie, Would I d. Marlene Dietrich (May Lie To You ?; Manic Street 6). Preachers, Motorcycle Emptiness; The Cure: Fiction: Friday I'm In Love; P.D. James, The Children Arrested Development, Mr. of Men; Jeanette Wendal; Suede, Metal Winterson, Written on the Mickey; , Body; Esther Freud, Walking On Broken Glass; Hideous Kinky. Lightning Seeds, The Life The Goosebumps series Of Riley; Bassheads, Is of books, penned by R.L. There Anybody Out Stine, are first published. There?; The Shamen, d. Isaac Asimov (Apr 6). Ebeneezer Goode; Sophie B. Hawkins, Damn I Wish I Non-fiction: Was Your Lover; The John Gray, Men Are from S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. Mars, Women Are from Introducing Michelle Venus; Andrew Morton, Visage, It's Gonna Be A Diana: Her True Story; Lovely Day; Bruce Madonna, Sex. Springsteen, Human Touch; XTC, The Ballad of TV / Media: Peter Pumpkinhead; A Debuting: Gladiators (ITV); House, Endless Art; Blur, The Big Breakfast ; New Fast (Channel 4); Supermarket Automatic Daffodils, It's Sweep (ITV); Men Not What You Know. Behaving Badly (ITV); LPs: Dr Dre, The Chronic; Barney & Friends (PBS); The Orb, U.F.Orb; R.E.M., Gamesmaster (Ch 4); Automatic for the People; Absolutely Fabulous Annie Lennox, Diva; (BBC2); The Larry Madonna, Erotica; Tori Sanders Show (HBO); Amos, Little Earthquakes. Take Your Pick (ITV). Ending: The Cosby Show; January January MacGyver; Rainbow. Waterfall is released. 11 Paul Simon is the first d. (Apr 20). major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the Fashion: cultural boycott. Lingerie looks take center February February stage. Romance returns The band part company 17 Serial killer Jeffrey to fashion, but biker chic with Gareth Evans. Dahmer is sentenced to also rules, with leather and The band hire The Rolling life in prison. tattoos. Romeo Gigli, Stones' mobile studio and 20 The English FA Dolce & Gabbana, move into the Old Premier League is Vivienne Westwood, Jean Brewery, in Ewloe, North officially formed. Muir, John Galliano, Wales. Six weeks are Donna Karan, Calvin spent there (with producer Klein, Adrienne Vittadini. ). British Designer of the March Year: Rifat Ozbek. 1 The Bosnian War begins. Visual arts: April April April Damien Hirst, Pharmacy; The Stone Roses return to 20 The Freddie Mercury 5 The Siege of Sarajevo Gordon Bennett, Myth of the Old Brewery with Tribute Concert, held at begins. the Western Man (White Leckie for a month-long , is 9 John Major re-elected. Man’s Burden). stay. televised live to over 1 29 L.A. police officers d. Francis Bacon (Apr 28). I Am The Resurrection is billion people and raises involved in Rodney King released. millions of dollars for AIDS beating acquitted. research. May May is 22 An estimated 40,000 released. people attend an impromptu week-long free festival at Castlemorton, Worcestershire. July 25 The Summer Olympics begin in Barcelona. August 12 American John Cage dies. September 16 Black Wednesday: the Conservative government is forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after they are unable to keep sterling above its agreed lower limit. George Soros, the most high profile of the currency market investors, makes over US$1 billion profit by short selling sterling. October 21 Jim Garrison, best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, dies. 31 Ghostwatch, a British horror- television movie broadcast on BBC1 sparks complaints. November 3 In the U.S. presidential election, Bill Clinton defeats incumbent U.S. President George Bush and businessman Ross Perot. 11 The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

1993

Art created by John 45s: Take That, Pray & Cinema: Squire in this year: Relight My Fire (feat. In the Name of the Father; 'David And His 34 Slightly Lulu); Energy 52, Café Del Jurassic Park; Schindler’s Misshapen Brothers'; Mar; Robin S, Show Me List; Philadelphia; Carlito’s ‘’. Love; Urban Cookie Way; True Romance; Collective, The Key The Groundhog Day. Secret & Feels Like d. Audrey Hepburn (Jan Heaven; The Connells, '74 20), (Oct - '75; Ace of Base, All That 31). She Wants & The Sign; 2Pac, Keep Ya Head Up & Fiction: I Get Around; R.E.M., Irvine Welsh, Everybody & The Trainspotting; James Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite; Patterson, Along Came a Nirvana, All Apologies; Spider; Sue Townsend, , Dreams Adrian Mole: The & Linger; 2 Unlimited, No Wilderness Years; David Limit; East 17, Deep; Dabydeen, Twenty 4 Seven, Slave To Disappearance; Louis de The Music; Duran Duran, Bernières, Captain Ordinary World; New Corelli's Mandolin; Order, Regret; Blur, For Sebastian Faulks, Tomorrow; Cygnus X, Birdsong; Carol Shields, Superstring; The The Stone Diaries; Iain Bluebells, Young At Heart; Banks, Complicity; A.L. , If I Ever Lose My Kennedy, Looking for the Faith In You. Possible Dance; W.G. LPs: Nirvana, In Utero; Sebald, The Emigrants. 2Pac, Strictly 4 My d. Anthony Burgess (Nov N.I.G.G.A.Z.; Suede, 25). Suede; Blur, ; , A Non-fiction: Storm In Heaven; Mariah d. William L. Shirer (Dec Carey, Music Box; One 28). Dove, Morning Dove White; Orbital, The Brown TV / Media: Album; Bikini Kill, Pussy Debuting: The Late Show Whipped; , with David Letterman Wild Wood; Sarah (CBS); Beavis and Butt- Brightman, Dive; head (MTV); The X-Files Barrington Levy, (FOX); Frasier (NBC); Lois Barrington; Kate Bush, & Clark: The New The Red Shoes; Adventures of Superman , Pablo Honey. (ABC); Ricki Lake; The Smell of Reeves and January Mortimer (BBC); Shooting 20 Bill Clinton is Stars (BBC2); The inaugurated as U.S. Impossible Job (ITV); President. NYPD Blue (ABC). Date N/K: February Ending: Cheers; Going Suede perform Animal 14 The body of abducted Live!; The Wonder Years. Nitrate at the Brits. two-year old James Bulger is found mutilated on a Fashion: railway line in Walton, '' influences music Liverpool. and fashion. Black proves 26 World Trade Center its power as the color of bombing in New York City the moment. Sophie kills 6 and injures over a Sitbon, Herve Leger, thousand. Chloe by Karl Lagerfeld, March Missoni, Byblos, Rifat The band and Leckie go to Ozbek, Jasper Conran, Square One studios in Adrienne Vittadini, Calvin Bury. Almost a dozen Klein, Perry Ellis. songs are heading British Designer of the towards eventual Year: John Rocha. completion. May Visual arts: 2 Manchester United win John LeKay, The Native the league title for the first Navigated His Canoe by time in 26 years. the Stars and Peacefully June Disappeared into the The band check into Bermuda Triangle # 2; Rockfield studios near Peter Doig, Blotter; Monmouth. Damien Hirst, Amonium July Biborate; Brice Marden, 26 Leckie arrives, is The Muses. unhappy with lack of Exhibitions: Venice progress and Biennale shows several subsequently quits to work works by Young British with The Verve and Artists including Damien Radiohead. Hirst's Mother and Child August Divided. Paul Schroeder takes over from Leckie. Local engineer Simon Dawson becomes Schroeder's right-hand man. September 13 PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin sign the Oslo Accords in Washington D.C. October 3 - 4 The Battle of Mogadishu: United States forces defeat Somali militia fighters. 9 The rematch between Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank at Old Trafford ends in a draw. Benn retains his WBC belt, Eubank his WBO championship. November November The band return to 18 Nirvana perform Rockfield. Unplugged in New York for MTV. December December The band’s publicist Philip 15 Downing Street Hall agrees to manage Declaration affirmed the them but loses a battle right of the people of against cancer weeks Northern Ireland to self- later. determination.

1994

Art created by John 45s: Nas, It Ain't Hard to Cinema: Squire in this year: Tell; Blur, ; East Forrest Gump; Dumb & ‘Second Coming’ (mixed 17, Stay Another Day; Dumber; The Mask; Pulp media collage, 30" x 40"). Take That, Everything Fiction; Four Weddings Changes; Lisa Loeb, Stay and a Funeral; The (I Missed You); Whigfield, Shawshank Redemption; Saturday Night; Livin' Joy, Clerks. Dreamer; PJ & Duncan, Let’s Get Ready To Fiction: Rhumble; , John Berendt, Midnight in Bug Powder Dust (feat. the Garden of Good and ); Suede, Evil; Alan Hollinghurst, The Wild Ones; Sheryl The Folding Star; J.M. Crow, All I Wanna Do; Coetzee, The Master of , Loser; R.E.M., Petersburg; James What’s the Frequency, Kelman, How Late It Was, Kenneth?; The Jesus and How Late; Stephen King, Mary Chain feat. Hope Insomnia; Jill Paton Sandoval, Sometimes Walsh, Knowledge of Always; INXS, The Angels. Strangest Party (These Are the Times); Shampoo, Non-fiction: Trouble; Garth Brooks, Martin Gilbert, In Search of Standing Outside the Fire; Churchill. Pulp, Do You Remember the First Time?; Stiltskin, TV / Media: Inside. Debuting: Friends (NBC); LPs: Nas, Illmatic; R.E.M., Ellen (ABC); The Fast Monster; The Prodigy, Show (BBC2); Room 101 Music for the Jilted (BBC2); The Day Today Generation; The Notorious (BBC 2); The NFL on B.I.G., Ready to Die; FOX; Due South (CBS); Beastie Boys, Ill Chicago Hope (CBS); ER Communication; Suede, (NBC). ; TLC, Ending: Minder; L.A. Law; CrazySexyCool; Manic Star Trek: The Next Street Preachers, The Generation; Jim'll Fix It; Holy Bible; The Durutti Knightmare; The Paul Column; Sex and Death; Daniels Magic Show. Portishead, Dummy; d. Telly Savalas (Jan 22), Massive Attack, Bill Hicks (Feb 26), John Protection. Candy (Mar 4), George Peppard (May 8), Dennis January Potter (Jun 7), Henry The band travel to New Mancini (Jun 14), John York to begin the first of Osborne (Dec 24). several discussions with Peter Leake, whom they Fashion: want to manage them. Adidas stripes went February February mainstream and glamour Simon Dawson replaces 28 Blur, Girls and Boys. returned with luxury fabrics Paul Schroeder as and high style. Xuly Bet, producer. Blumarine, Complice, March March Bella Gareth Evans issues a 18 Oasis make their debut Freud, Philip Treacy, Todd multi-million pound writ national TV appearance . against the band. on Channel 4's The Word, British Designer of the The Roses arrive for performing Supersonic. Year: John Galliano. another spell at Rockfield but leave soon after for Visual arts: two weeks holiday. Cy Twombly, The Four April April Seasons: Spring; Damien 5 Kurt Cobain commits 6 Rwandan president Hirst, Away from the Flock suicide. Juvénal Habyarimana dies & Arachidic Acid; Gary 11 Oasis’s debut single, when a missile shoots Hume, Begging For It; Supersonic. down his jet near Kigali, Peter Howson, Road to 25 Blur’s Parklife LP is Rwanda. This is taken as Zenica; Mark Wallinger, released. a pretext to begin the Half-Brother ( to 30 Ireland enjoy a record Rwandan Genocide, which Nowhere – Machiavellian). sixth victory at the ensues the next day. d. Clement Greenberg Eurovision Song Contest, 21 Red Cross estimates (May 7), Mohammad Reza with the song, Rock 'N' that hundreds of Irani (Sep 3). Roll Kids. Riverdance is thousands of Tutsis have first performed during the been killed by Hutu interval. extremists in Rwanda. May May May 14 The band return to 30 Blur, To the End. 1 Formula One triple world Rockfield to see to champion Ayrton Senna overdubs and vocals on suffers a fatal crash at the the new tracks. San Marino Grand Prix, Imola. 6 The Channel Tunnel opens. 12 Labour leader John Smith dies from a heart attack. 19 Former First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies. June June 13 Oasis, . 12 Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in , California. NFL star O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit. 17 O.J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford Bronco. The low speed chase, which unfolds live on television, ends up at Simpson's mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, where he then surrendered to police. 18 Six people are shot dead by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) during a gun attack on The Heights Bar, Loughinisland. July July The band, still without a Tony Blair becomes leader manager, decide to end of the Labour Party. talks with Peter Leake. August August 8 Oasis, Live Forever. 31 The IRA declares a 23 The K Foundation (Bill cessation of all military Drummond and Jimmy operations. Cauty) burn one million pounds sterling in cash on the Scottish island of Jura. 30 Oasis, . October October The band move to 10 Oasis, Cigarettes & Metropolis studios in Alcohol. Chiswick with ex-Clash associate Bill Price, where they work on the album's final mix. The band and Steve Atherton fly to LA to play Geffen the tapes. November November November 7 Love Spreads, the first 7 Blur, . 3 The Criminal Justice and single from the album, is Public Order Act 1994 debuted on Radio 1's implements restrictions Evening Session (and and greater penalties for released later that month). certain 'anti-social' behaviours. This outlawed open air gatherings of more than ten people listening to "music characterised by a succession of repetitive beats". December December December Second Coming is 19 Oasis, Whatever. 11 The First Chechen War released. begins.

1995

Art created by John 45s: N-Trance, Set You Cinema: Squire in this year: Free; Mariah Carey, Toy Story; ; Batman ‘’ (plaster, Fantasy; Take That, Back Forever; Apollo 13; floppy discs and for Good & Never Forget; Dangerous Minds; Before watercolour on plywood, , For an Sunrise; Casino; Mallrats. 35" x 35"); ‘Driving South’ Angel; Sleeper, d. Lana Turner (Jun 29). (wood glue, sand, toy cars Inbetweener; , and bitumen on plywood, Free As A Bird; The Fiction: 24" x 24"); ‘Help EP’; ‘Help Human League, Tell Me Martin Amis, The LP’. When; Echobelly, Great Information; Bernhard Things; Mike & The Schlink, The Reader; Mechanics, Over My Michael Crichton, The Lost Shoulder; , Waking World; Pat Barker, The Up & Connection; Ghost Road. Menswear, Daydreamer; d. Patricia Highsmith (Feb Tatjana, Santa Maria. 4). LPs: 2Pac, Me Against the World; Michael Jackson, Non-fiction: HIStory; , Jean Baudrillard, The Gulf Jagged Little Pill; War Did Not Take Place; , Said and Done; Nelson Mandela, Long Pulp, Different Class; Walk to Freedom; Alan Annie Lennox, Medusa; Warner, Morvern Callar. Prince, The Gold d. Peter Cook (Jan 9). Experience; Cher, It's a Man's World; Red Hot Chili TV / Media: Peppers, ; Debuting: Father Ted (Ch Mariah Carey, Daydream; 4); Pride and Prejudice The Verve, A Northern (BBC1). Soul; Cast, All Change; Ending: Challenge Paul Weller, Stanley Road; Anneka, Matlock. David Bowie, 1. OUTSIDE; d. Doug McClure (Feb 5), , I Should Kenny Everett (Apr 4). Coco; Shack, Waterpistol; Beastie Boys, Root Down Fashion: EP; Enya, The Memory of Retro fashion of the 60's Trees. and 70's as the mod squad returned alongside January January the disco dress. 9 The Roses are in 25 Manchester United's Conservative clothes (twin London remixing tracks Eric Cantona attacks a sets, fitted suits). Thierry from the 'Love Spreads' Crystal Palace fan after Mugler, Alberta Ferretti, session for future B-sides. being red-carded, and is Genny, Gucci, 11 The band fly to America suspended until October. Versus/Istante, Hussein to discuss a US tour. Chalayan, Nicole Miller, 16 Second Coming is Anna Sui, Cynthia Rowley. released in the US. British Designer of the 17 Ian Brown courts Year: John Galliano. controversy during an L.A. radio interview (Modern Visual arts: Rock Live) by saying the The Chapman Brothers, American army should Zygotic Acceleration; "stop killing babies". His Tracey Emin, Everyone I remarks are prompted have ever slept with 1963- after hearing adverts 1995; Ian Davenport, urging citizens to join up. Poured Lines: Light 23 Two radio interviews in Orange, Blue, Yellow, the San Francisco Bay Dark Green and Orange; Area: KOME (98.5 FM) in Eduardo Paolozzi, San Jose and KITS (105 Newton; Myra by Marcus FM) in San Francisco (with Harvey, a mosaic of Moors DJ Mark Hamilton). murderer Myra Hindley, Michael Eavis asks the composed of stencilled band to headline this children’s handprints. year's Glastonbury Exhibitions: Young British Festival. Artists, Brilliant! The Love Spreads video is airplay by MTV because of its "poor quality" and the band shoot another while in L.A. Second Coming enters the US album chart at Number 47. Having earlier met Guns N' Roses manager Doug Goldstein in Manchester, the band decide against making him their permanent manager. February February February 13 The Roses film the 1 Richey Edwards 15 A Republic of Ireland video for their next single, disappears on the day that vs England soccer match '', at the Manic Street in Lansdowne Road, Bow Street Studios in East Preachers are due to fly to Dublin is abandoned due London. America for a promotional to crowd violence. 22 The Roses postpone tour. He is never seen their UK tour for a month again. because Squire is seriously ill with pneumonia. March March March 10 The Roses settle out of 6 Radiohead’s The Bends 1 Yahoo! is founded in court with Gareth Evans, LP is released. Santa Clara, California. for an undisclosed amount 2 Nick Leeson is arrested - said to be nowhere near for his role in the collapse the £10 million he asked of Barings Bank. for. Ten Storey Love Song is released. 30 Manager Doug Goldstein quits after just three months. April April April Reni quits and is replaced 24 Oasis, Some Might 19 Timothy McVeigh by Robbie Maddix. He Say. bombs the Alfred P. has just ten days to Murrah Building in rehearse the Roses’ set Oklahoma City, killing 168 for the European tour. people. 19 Oslo Rockefeller , Norway. 20 Stockholm Palladium, Sweden. 21 Kåren, Göteborg, Sweden. 24 Hamburg Docks, Germany. 25 Berlin Metropol, Germany. 26 Amsterdam Paradiso, The Netherlands. 27 La Luna, Belgium. 29 Cologne E-Werk Halle, Germany. May ‘’ is released. 1 Zurich, . 3 Rome Art Palladium, Italy. 5 Copenhagen Pakhus 11, Denmark. 7 Madrid , Spain. 9 Le Transbordeur, France. 11 Paris Elysee Montmartre, France. 14 Midtown , USA. 17 WUST Radio Music Hall, Washington, D.C., USA. 18 Manne Terminal, Canada. 20 New York Manhattan Center, USA. 21 Avalon Club, USA. 22 New York Webster Hall, USA. 23 Chicago Festival, USA. 24 Philadelphia Trocadero Theatre, USA. 26 St Louis Festival, USA. 29 Los Angeles , USA. 31 San Francisco Filmore, USA. June June 2 Squire cracks his 24 South Africa defeat collarbone in four places New Zealand 15-12 after after falling off a hired extra time to win the 1995 mountain bike in San Rugby World Cup. Francisco, forcing the 27 Hugh Grant is arrested band to postpone their near Sunset Boulevard for upcoming Japanese tour. lewd conduct in a public 5 Sapporo, Factory Hall, place with a Hollywood Japan (cancelled). prostitute. 7 Kawasaki, Club Citta, Japan (cancelled). 8 Kawasaki, Club Citta, Japan (cancelled). 10 , Century Hall, Japan (cancelled). 12 Tokyo, Nippon Budokan, Japan (cancelled). 13 Tokyo, Nippon Budokan, Japan (cancelled). 14 Osaka, Kousei Nenkin Kaikan, Japan (cancelled). 16 , Yuubin chokin Hall, Japan (cancelled). 17 , Sun Palace Hall, Japan (cancelled). 19 Osaka, Festival Hall, Japan (cancelled). 21 While recovering, Squire designs a piece of clothing for Warchild's Pagan Fun Wear fashion show - held at the Saatchi gallery, West London. His contribution is a skimpy bikini with the cherub and chevrons from the 'Love Spreads' sleeve that fetches £600. 24 , Main Stage, England (cancelled). Pulp are brought in as last-minute replacements for the Saturday-night headline slot. Nigel Ipinson is brought in to play keyboards. July July 30 Stockholm Lollipop 4 UK Prime Minister John Festival, Sweden. Major wins his battle to 31 Tampere Tullikamari, remain leader of the Finland. Conservative Party. 11 Srebrenica massacre: More than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks are killed. August August August 1 Helsinki Tavastia Club, 14 ‘The Battle of ’. 30 Operation Deliberate Finland. Blur and Oasis release the Force, the NATO bombing 2 Helsinki Tavastia Club, first single (Country in Bosnia and Finland. House, Roll With It) from Herzegovina, commences. 6 Cork Feile Festival, their respective Republic of Ireland. forthcoming on the John designs and paints same day. the Warchild 'Help' album sleeve. 26 Mani becomes the father of Joseph Christy Mounfield. September September 1 Somerset Pilton Playing 11 Blur, The Great Fields, England. Escape. 4 At Rockfield Studios in South Wales, the Roses record a new version of Love Spreads for the Warchild benefit album released just five days later. 11 Kawasaki Club Chitta, Japan. 12 Tokyo Budokan, Japan. 13 Tokyo Budokan, Japan. 15 Okinawa Convention Theatre, Japan. 17 Osaka Imp Hall, Japan. 18 Nagoya Century Hall, Japan. 20 Miel Parque Hall, Hiroshima, Japan. 21 Fukuoka Sun Palace Hall, Japan. 24 Osaka Imp Hall, Japan. 25 Osaka Imp Hall, Japan. 27 Sapporo Factory Hall, Japan. 28 Kawasaki Club Chitta, Japan. October October 1 Festival Hall, 2 Oasis, (What's the Story) Australia. Morning Glory? 2 Enmore Theatre, 30 Oasis, Wonderwall. Australia. 3 Sydney Enmore Theatre, Australia. 5 Metro, Australia. 7 Thebarton Theatre, Australia. 8 Metropolis, Australia. 9 Perth Metropolis, Australia. November November November Begging You is released. 13 Blur, . 4 Israeli prime minister 28 The Royal Hall, Yitzhak Rabin is Bridlington Spa, England. assassinated. 29 Wolverhampton Civic Hall, England. December 1 Cambridge Corn Exchange, England. 2 , England. 4 Newport Centre, Wales. 5 Exeter University, England. 7 Leicester De Montfort Hall, England. 8 , London, England. 9 Brixton Academy, London (all-nighter), England. 11 Reading Rivermead, England. 12 Norwich University of East Anglia, England. 13 Leeds Town and Country Club, England. 15 Liverpool Royal Court, England. 16 Whitley Bay Ice Rink, Newcastle, England. 17 Music Hall, Scotland. 19 Glasgow Barrowlands, Scotland. 20 Glasgow Barrowlands, Scotland. 22 Manchester Apollo, England. 23 Manchester Apollo, England. 28 , England. 29 , London, England.

1996

Art created by John 45s: , Wannabe Cinema: Squire in this year: & Say You'll Be There & 2 Independence Day; The ‘Cornflakes and Pink Become 1; Take That, English Patient; Alginate’ (plaster of paris, How Deep is Your Love; Trainspotting; Jerry packing crate, 14" x 10"); Underworld, Born Slippy Maguire; Kingpin. ‘Do It Yourself’ (plaster .NUXX; Nalin & Kane, bandage, clay, cellulose Beachball; 2Pac (featuring Fiction: and acrylic); ‘Love Is The Dr. Dre), California Love & Douglas Coupland, Law’ (acrylic on calico with How Do U Want It Polaroids from the Dead; clay and epoxy resin, 28" x (featuring K-Ci and JoJo) Anne Michaels, Fugitive 28"); ‘Warchild Surfboard’ & Life Goes On; The Pieces; Margaret Atwood; (vinyl lettering on Prodigy, Firestarter; Tori Alias Grace; David Foster polypropylene, 8' x 3'). Amos, Professional Wallace, Infinite Jest. Widow; George Michael, Fast Love; Moonman, Non-fiction: Galaxia; Chicane, Howard Marks, Mr. Nice. Offshore; Alisha's Attic, I Am, I Feel; , I TV / Media: Love You Always Forever; Debuting: Everybody , If It Makes Loves Raymond (CBS); You Happy & Everyday Is Spin City (ABC). a Winding Road; Garbage, Ending: Murder, She Stupid Girl; , Wrote; Teenage Mutant Don’t Speak; The Ninja Turtles; The Fresh Cardigans, Lovefool; Prince of Bel-Air; Beadle's Sleeper, Sale of the About. Century; The , d. Timothy Leary (May 31). She Said; Whigfield, Gimme Gimme; Shed Fashion: Seven, Going For Gold & The year of feminine, Chasing Rainbows. romantic dressing, with LPs: Spice Girls, Spice; softer fabrics and easy Boyzone, A Different Beat; shapes. Dresses are Suede, Coming Up; Celine more popular than ever. Dion, Falling Into You; The last 2Pac, All Eyez on Me; DJ collection of Givenchy by Shadow, Endtroducing.....; Hubert de Givenchy, and Beck, Odelay; Ras Kass, the first collection of Soul On Ice; Manic Street Givenchy by John Preachers, Everything Galliano, Ocimar Must Go; , Infinite; Versolato, Prada, Ocean Colour Scene, Giorgio Armani, Gucci, Moseley Shoals; Super Missoni, Alexander Furry Animals, Fuzzy McQueen, Philip Treacy, Logic; , K. Red Or Dead. British Designer of the February February February Year: Alexander Garage Flower is 5 Blur, Stereotypes. 9 The IRA ends its McQueen. released. 19 Oasis, Don’t Look Back ceasefire with a bomb in in Anger. London's Canary Wharf Visual arts: District, killing 2 people. Damien Hirst, This little 14 Former Liverpool FC piggy went to market, this manager Bob Paisley dies. little piggy stayed at home; March March Lori , All the 21 Squire informs Brown, 13 The Dunblane Living and the Dead; Roy Mani and Maddix by Massacre, in which 16 Lichtenstein, House I; telephone of his decision primary school children Fiona Rae, Untitled to quit the band. and one teacher are killed. (Emergency Room). April April Exhibitions: British Art 1 On April Fools’ Day, 22 Blur, . Show 5 - various venues Squire’s decision to quit is in Manchester; Vermeer, made public. The Hague and May Metropolitan Museum of 11 John Squire Art, New York. collaborates with on Love Me And Leave Me, writing the song at the Oasis frontman’s house after watching Manchester United defeat Liverpool 1-0 in the F.A. Cup final. June 15 A large bomb explosion by the IRA devastates . July 5 Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born. August August 2 Benicassim Festival 10 & 11 Oasis - joined by Internacional, Spain. John Squire for two songs 10 Vilar de Mouros - perform back-to-back Festival, Portugal. concerts at Knebworth, 11 Skanderborg Festival, Hertfordshire. The band Denmark. sell out both shows within 14 , minutes - 250,000 people Budapest, Hungary. for both nights combined, 23 Festival, a record-breaking number Netherlands. for an outdoor concert held 25 Reading festival, in the UK. England. A week later, the 26 Liam Gallagher pulls band have a meeting with out of Oasis’s U.S. tour 15 publicist Terri Hall. minutes before the band are due to take off from Heathrow Airport. September 7 Tupac Shakur is shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He dies six days later of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. 11 Noel Gallagher quits Oasis’ U.S. tour. October October 29 Mani leaves The Stone 12 Oasis and The Roses to join Primal Chemical Brothers Scream and The Stone collaboration, Setting Sun. Roses officially split. November 27 , The Buckley Tivoli, Buckley, Wales. December December 7 The Seahorses, Rico's, The Smiths are reunited in Greenock, Scotland. court to settle a royalties 12 The Seahorses, The claim by Mike Joyce Sugarhouse, Lancaster, against Morrissey and England. Marr. The court rules in Brown splits from the favour of the former mother of his two young Smiths drummer. sons and returns home to live with his parents. With a Second Coming royalty cheque for nine grand, he puts a deposit down on an ex-council house in Warrington.

Chronology: Post-Stone Roses & reformation

(FORMERLY OF) THE MUSIC CURRENT AFFAIRS CULTURE STONE ROSES 1997

Art created by John 45s: Mariah Carey, Cinema: Squire in this year: Honey; Backstreet Boys, Titanic; Men In Black; The Blinded By The Sun Quit Playin' Games (With Lost World: Jurassic Park; (sunglasses in cement); My Heart); The Notorious Good Will Hunting; Pink Apache; Sea.Cav. (oil B.I.G. (featuring Puff Tomorrow Never Dies; on canvas, 24" x 18"). Daddy & Mase), Mo Boogie Nights; Cube. Money Mo Problems; Spice Girls, Who Do You Fiction: Think You Are/Mama & Don DeLillo, Underworld; Spice Up Your Life & Too J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter Much; 2pac, To Live & Die and the Philosopher's in LA; Puff Daddy, I'll Be Stone; Dan Brown, Digital Missing You; The Verve, Fortress; Candace Bittersweet Symphony; Bushnell, Sex and the , Angels; City. , Torn; d. Allen Ginsberg (Apr 5), Radiohead, Karma Police; William S. Burroughs (Aug Texas, Say What You 2), Harold Robbins (Oct Want; Eternal, I Wanna Be 14). The Only One (featuring BeBe Winans); Aqua, Non-fiction: Barbie Girl; , Da Jean-Dominique Bauby, ; , I Know The Diving Bell and the Where It's At & Never Butterfly. Ever; Tall Paul, Rock Da House; Meredith Brooks, TV / Media: Bitch; , The Debuting: Brass Eye Rain (Supa Dupa Fly); (Channel 4); King of the Echo & the Bunnymen, Hill (FOX); Teletubbies Nothing Lasts Forever. (BBC1); South Park LPs: Spice Girls, (Comedy Central); Ally Spiceworld; Robbie McBeal (FOX); Buffy the Williams, Life Thru a Lens; Vampire (The WB). The Prodigy, The Fat Of Ending: The New The Land; The Verve, Adventures of Superman. ; Mariah Carey, Butterfly; Blur, Blur; Fashion: Daft Punk, Homework; The designer world loses Missy Elliott, Supa Dupa Gianni Versace. Jean Fly; The Charlatans, Tellin’ Paul Gaultier, Christian Stories; David Bowie, Dior by John Galliano, Earthling; The Chemical Alexander McQueen, Brothers, Dig Your Own Clements Ribeiro, Antonio Hole; Dr. Dre, Dr. Dre Berardi, Michael Kors, Presents...The Aftermath; Marc Jacobs, Richard Jay-Z, In My Lifetime, Vol. Tyler. 1; U2, Pop; , British Designer of the Time out of Mind Year: Alexander McQueen. February 20 The Seahorses, The Visual arts: Viper Rooms, Los Antony Gormley, Another Angeles, California. Place; Chuck Close, Self March Portrait. 9 The Notorious B.I.G. is Myra (1995) by Marcus shot dead in Los Angeles. Harvey sparks a firestorm April April of controversy when 23 Wulfrun Hall, 21 Ronnie O’Sullivan shown as part of the Wolverhampton, England. completes a 147 break in Sensation exhibition at the 25 The Seahorses, The 5 minutes 20 seconds at a Royal Academy of Art, Riverside, Newcastle, World Snooker London. England. Championship match. d. Roy Lichtenstein (Sep 26 The Seahorses, The 29). Garage, Glasgow, Scotland. 27 The Seahorses, L2, Liverpool, England. 29 The Seahorses, The Leadmill, Sheffield, England. 30 The Seahorses, The Roadmender, Northampton, England. May May 2 The Seahorses, TFI 2 Tony Blair is appointed Friday live TV appearance U.K. Prime Minister. (Love Is The Law), London, England. 3 The Seahorses, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. 4 The Seahorses, The Limelight, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 21 The Seahorses, Foster's, Toronto, Canada. 29 The Seahorses, BBC Radio 1 Evening Session, Maida Vale Studios, London, England. June June 7 The Seahorses, Sala 16 Radiohead, OK Caracol, Madrid, Spain. Computer. 9 The Seahorses, Rock City, Nottingham, England. 10 The Seahorses, Town & Country Club, Leeds, England. 11 The Seahorses, The Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland. 13 The Seahorses, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales. 14 The Seahorses, The Guildhall, Southampton, England. 15 The Seahorses, UEA, Norwich, England. 17 The Seahorses, Do It Yourself. 19 The Seahorses, Essex University, Essex, England. 20 The Seahorses, The Forum, London, England. 21 The Seahorses, The Academy, Manchester, England. 26 The Seahorses, , Roskilde, Denmark. 27 The Seahorses, NME Stage, Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury, England. July July July 7 Primal Scream, 7 Oasis, D’You Know 1 People's Republic of Vanishing Point. What I Mean. China assumes 11 The Seahorses, Indie sovereignty over the Stage, Dour Festival, British colony of Hong Dour, Belgium. Kong. 13 The Seahorses, NME 4 Sojourner rover, Mars Stage, , Pathfinder, lands Balado, Scotland . successfully on Mars. 27 The Seahorses, Main 29 Tracie Andrews is Stage, Fuji , sentenced to life Fuji, Japan. imprisonment for the 31 The Seahorses, Met murder of her fiancé. Cafe, Providence, Rhode Island. August August August 1 The Seahorses, 21 Oasis, Be Here Now. 31 Diana, Princess of , Wales dies after a car Boston, . accident in Paris. 2 The Seahorses, , Philadelphia, . 4 The Seahorses, 9:30 Club, Washington DC, District of Columbia. 5 The Seahorses, , New York, New York. 7 The Seahorses, Foufounes, , Canada. 8 The Seahorses, Opera House, Toronto, Canada. 9 The Seahorses, Heights, . 10 The Seahorses, St Andrews, , . 12 The Seahorses, Metro, Chicago, . 13 The Seahorses, The , Milwaukee, . 14 The Seahorses, Fine Line Music Cafe, , . 16 The Seahorses, The Galaxy, St Louis, Missouri. 17 The Seahorses, Lawrence, Kansas. 19 The Seahorses, Ogden Theatre, , . 20 The Seahorses, DV8 , , Utah. 22 The Seahorses, La Luna, Portland, Oregon. 23 The Seahorses, Rage, , Canada. 24 The Seahorses, The Showbox, Seattle, Washington. 26 The Seahorses, Bimbo's, San Francisco, California. 27 The Seahorses, The Palace, Hollywood, California. 28 The Seahorses, The Viper Rooms, Los Angeles California. 29 The Seahorses, Cane's, , California. September September 1 The Seahorses, The 5 Mother Teresa dies. Mayfair, Newcastle, England. 26 The Seahorses, TFI Friday live TV appearance, London, England. October 11 The Seahorses, Festhalle, , (supporting The Prodigy). 12 The Seahorses, Hippodrome de Vincennes, Paris, France (supporting The Prodigy). 13 The NME reports that Reni was recently jailed for contempt of court. Reni was in Manchester Magistrates Court on 29th August on a charge of having no car insurance when he launched a verbal attack at stipendiary magistrate, Derrick Fairclough. The magistrate ordered Reni to spend lunchtime in the court cells as a result and although he apologised, Fairclough sentenced Reni to a further 7 days in Prison for contempt of court. He was released after 3 days. 18 The Seahorses, Forest Nationale, Brussels, Belgium (supporting The Prodigy). 19 The Seahorses, The Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands (supporting The Prodigy). 24 The Seahorses, Hartwell Arena, Helsinki, Finland (supporting The Prodigy). 25 The Seahorses, Spektrum, Oslo, Norway (supporting The Prodigy). 26 The Seahorses, Student Festival, Trondheim, Norway (supporting The Prodigy). 30 The Seahorses, Garden Hall, Tokyo, Japan. November 2 The Seahorses, Akasaka Blitz, Tokyo, Japan. 4 The Seahorses, Diamond Hall, Nagoya, Japan. 5 The Seahorses, IMP Hall, Osaka, Japan. 6 The Seahorses, Liquid Room, Tokyo, Japan. 10 The Seahorses, Palacio de la Commidad, Madrid, Spain (supporting Oasis). 11 The Seahorses, Palacio de los Deportes, Madrid, Spain (supporting Oasis). 13 The Seahorses, Arena, Geneva, Switzerland (supporting Oasis). 15 The Seahorses, Palazzetto dello Sport Casalecchio del reno, Bologna, Italy (supporting Oasis). 16 The Seahorses, Fila Forum Assago, Milan, Italy (supporting Oasis). 17 The Seahorses, Fila Forum Assago, Milan, Italy (supporting Oasis). 19 The Seahorses, , Munich, Germany (supporting Oasis). 21 The Seahorses, Sportovni, Prague, Czech Republic (supporting Oasis). 22 The Seahorses, Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany (supporting Oasis). 24 The Seahorses, Messehalle, Hannover, Germany (supporting Oasis). 25 The Seahorses, Festhalle, , Germany (supporting Oasis). 27 The Seahorses, Brabanthallen, Den Bosch, Netherlands (supporting Oasis). 28 The Seahorses, Oberhausen Arena, Oberhausen, Germany (supporting Oasis). December 2 The Seahorses, Town Hall, Middlesborough, England. 3 The Seahorses, Royal Court, Liverpool, England. 4 The Seahorses, Winter Gardens, Margate, England. 5 The Seahorses, TFI Friday live TV appearance, London, England. 6 The Seahorses, Olympia, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. 7 The Seahorses, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 9 The Seahorses, Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England. 10 The Seahorses, Kilburn National, London, England. 12 The Seahorses, The Dome, Doncaster, England. 13 The Seahorses, Corn Exchange, Cambridge, England. 14 The Seahorses, Exeter University, Exeter, England. 16 The Seahorses, The Guildhall, Portsmouth, England. 17 The Seahorses, Newport Centre, Newport, Wales. 18 The Seahorses, The Apollo, Manchester, England. 19 The Seahorses, The Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England. 21 The Seahorses, Aberdeen Music Hall, Aberdeen, Scotland. 22 The Seahorses, The Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland. 23 The Seahorses, The Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland.

1998

Art created by John 45s: Robbie Williams, Cinema: Squire in this year: Millennium; Bran Van The Truman Show; Saving N/K 3000, Drinking in L.A.; Private Ryan; Three Drives on A Vinyl, Armageddon; There's Greece 2000; The Goo Something About Mary; A Goo Dolls, Iris; B*Witched, Night at the Roxbury; He C'est La Vie; Len, Steal Got Game; The Waterboy; My Sunshine; 2Pac, Godzilla; The Big Changes; , My Lebowski; Fear and Heart Will Go On; Aqua, Loathing in Las Vegas; Pi; Turn Back Time; Beastie Shakespeare in Love; The Boys, Intergalactic; Thin Red Line. George Michael, Outside; Cher, Believe; Madonna, Fiction: Ray of Light; Bryan Adams J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter feat. , When and the Chamber of You're Gone; Liquid Child, Secrets; Ian McEwan, Diving Faces; Art of Amsterdam; Nick Hornby, Trance, Madagascar; Pete About a Boy; Julian Wylie, Heart As Big As Barnes, England, England. Liverpool; Pras featuring d. Ted Hughes (Oct 28). ODB and Mya, Ghetto Supastar; , Non-fiction: My Hero. John McPhee, Annals of LPs: Jay-Z, Vol. 2... Hard the Former World. Knock Life; Madonna, Ray of Light; Boyzone, Where TV / Media: We Belong; Eva Cassidy, Debuting: Sex and the City Songbird; Billie, Honey to (HBO); Dawson's Creek the B; , Psyence (The WB); Who Wants to Fiction; Beck, Mutations; Be a Millionaire? (ITV); Lauryn Hill, The Charmed (The WB); Will & Miseducation of Lauryn Grace (NBC). Hill; Shania Twain, Come Ending: Seinfeld; The On Over; Beastie Boys, Larry Sanders Show. Hello Nasty; Massive d. Dermot Morgan (Feb Attack, Mezzanine. 28).

January Fashion: 26 On American American designers television, Bill Clinton Michael Kors and Marc denies having “sexual Jacobs take the helm of relations” with former the venerable French White House intern houses of Celine and Monica Lewinsky. Louis Vuitton. Julien February Macdonald launches his 2 Ian Brown, Unfinished first signature collection in Monkey Business. Album London. Erin O’Conner is signing at London Virgin 1998's fashion 'It Girl'. Megastore. Celebrity designer Stella 13 Ian Brown is involved in McCartney begins her an ‘air ’ incident career at Chloe, and aboard a British Airways Donatella takes the reins flight, from Charles De at Versace, while the New Gaulles airport to York MET exhibits a . retrospective of her March brother, Gianni. More 3 Ian Brown, Blue Note Big outrageous looks from Issue benefit, London. Ian Alexander McQueen, was advertised as a DJ, Hussein Chalayan, Jeremy but played with his band in Scott and hat-master what was his first post- Philip Treacy. In New Roses gig. He performed York, three decades of 4 songs: Little Wing, style at Ralph Lauren and Corpses In Their Mouths, fashion classics at Calvin Can't See Me and My Star. Klein, Gucci and DKNY. 20 Ian Brown, TFI Friday British Designer of the live TV appearance, Year: no ceremony. London, England. 30 The Seahorses, The Visual arts: Lomax, Liverpool, England John Currin, Honeymoon (supporting Santa Cruz). Nude; Ansel Krut, April April April Pasiphaë and the Bull; 16 The Seahorses, 7 George Michael is 10 Good Friday Peter Davies, The Hip One Gloucestershire, England arrested in a public Agreement signed in Hundred; Antony Gormley, (supporting Santa Cruz). restroom in Beverly Hills, Belfast. Angel of the North. 18 The Seahorses, California for lewd conduct Ashton-Under-Lyme, and sentenced to England (supporting Santa community service. Cruz). 19 The Seahorses, St Helens, England (supporting Santa Cruz). 20 The Seahorses, Stoke, England (supporting Santa Cruz). May 13 The Seahorses, Blackburn, England. 14 The Seahorses, The Buckley Tivoli, Buckley, Wales. 26 Ian Brown BBC Radio 1 Breezeblock Session. 30 Ian Brown, Umea Festival, Sweden. 31 Ian Brown, Studion, Stockholm, Sweden. June June 1 Ian Brown, Aarhus 14 Chicago Bulls win 4 Huest, Denmark. games to 2 over the Utah 4 Ian Brown, Caribana Jazz, to complete their Festival, Crans-Sur-Nyon, second three-peat of the Switzerland. decade. 19 Ian Brown, The Stage, Stoke, England. 20 Ian Brown, The Zodiac, Oxford, England. 21 Ian Brown, The Guildhall, Gloucester, England. 23 Ian Brown, The Buckley Tivoli, Buckley, Wales. 24 Ian Brown, Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth, England. 26 Ian Brown, New Bands Tent, Glastonbury Festival, England. July 8 The Seahorses, The Roadmenders, Northampton, England. 9 The Seahorses, Parr Hall, Warrington, England. 11 Ian Brown, , Galway, Republic of Ireland. The Seahorses, Main Stage, T In The Park, Balado, Scotland. 12 Ian Brown, NME Stage, T In The Park, Balado, Scotland. 14 Ian Brown, Clickimin Centre, Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland. 16 The Seahorses, Puerto de Malaga, Malaga, Spain (supporting ). 18 The Seahorses, Est. Mun. De Balaidos, Vigo, Spain (supporting The Rolling Stones). 20 The Seahorses, Olympic Stadium, Barcelona, Spain (supporting The Rolling Stones). 29 The Seahorses, Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark (supporting The Rolling Stones). 31 The Seahorses, Ullevi Stadium, Goteborg, Sweden (supporting The Rolling Stones). August August 2 The Seahorses, 7 Bombing (linked to Vallehovin, Oslo, Norway Osama Bin Laden) of U.S. (supporting The Rolling embassies in Tanzania Stones); Primal Scream, and Kenya kills 224 . people and injures over 4 The Seahorses, 4,500. Tavastia, Helsinki, Finland 15 The Omagh Bombing (with The Posies). carried out by the Real 5 The Seahorses, Olympic Irish Republican Army kills Stadium, Helsinki, Finland 29 people and injures (supporting The Rolling approximately 220. Stones). 8 Ian Brown, Fuji Rock Festival '98, Tokyo Bay, Japan. 18 The Seahorses, Radio 1 Roadshow, Bournemouth, England. 19 The Seahorses, Beirkeller, Bristol, England. 20 The Seahorses, Rock City, Nottingham, England. 22 Ian Brown, V98, Chelmsford, England. The Seahorses, V98 (Main Stage), Chelmsford, England. 23 Ian Brown, V98, Leeds, England. The Seahorses, V98 (Main Stage), Leeds, England. 29 The Seahorses, Slane Castle (Main Stage), Republic of Ireland.

1999

Art created by John 45s: , Cinema: Squire in this year: ...Baby One More Time; Star Wars, Episode I - The 'Animal Skull' (animal Backstreet Boys, I Want It Phantom Menace; Toy skull); ‘IJ52’ (acrylic on That Way; Robbie Story 2; The Matrix; The canvas, 42” x 42”). Williams, She's the One; Blair Witch Project; Eminem, My Name Is…; Audition; Cruel Intentions; Christina Aguilera, Genie American Beauty; in a Bottle; Sixpence None American Pie; She's All the Richer, Kiss Me; That; Office Space; Shania Twain, That Don't Bowfinger; Eyes Wide Impress Me Much; Solar Shut; Fight Club; Man on Stone, Seven Cities; the Moon; South Park: Chicane (with Máire Bigger, Longer & Uncut; Brennan), Saltwater; Wild Wild West. , L'Esperanza; Ann Lee, 2 Times; New Fiction: Radicals, You Get What J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter You Give; The Chemical and the Prisoner of Brothers, Let Forever Be & Azkaban; Tracy Chevalier, Out of Control; Suede, Girl with a Pearl Earring; She’s in Fashion; Bret Easton Ellis, Madonna, Beautiful Glamorama; Thomas Stranger; Filter, Take a Harris, Hannibal; Frank Picture; , McCourt, 'Tis; Koushun Gouryella & Walhalla; Takami, Battle Royale. Moloko, Sing It Back; d. Iris Murdoch (Feb 8), Bedrock, Heaven Scent; Mario Puzo (Jul 2), , 1999; Quentin Crisp (Nov 21), Blondie, Maria; Rollergirl, Joseph Heller (Dec 12). Dear Jessie; Donell Jones feat. Lisa Left Eye Lopes, Non-fiction: U Know What’s Up. Peter Jennings and Todd LPs: TLC, Fanmail; Brewster, The Century. Eminem, The Slim Shady LP; Britney Spears, TV / Media: ...Baby One More Time; Debuting: The Sopranos Christina Aguilera, (HBO); Futurama (FOX); Christina Aguilera; Family Guy (FOX); Bad , Westlife; Blink- Girls (ITV1); SpongeBob 182, Enema of the State; SquarePants Jay-Z, Vol. 3: Life and (Nickelodeon); Who Wants Times of S. Carter; Nas, I to Be a Millionaire (ITV); Am...; Sigur Rós, Ágætis The West Wing (NBC); byrjun; Red Hot Chili Bang, Bang, It's Reeves Peppers, Californication; and Mortimer (BBC2); Will Smith, Willenium; The That Thing (Ch White Stripes, The White 4). Stripes; Ending: Noel's House Travis, ; Party; Red Dwarf. Blur, 13; Dr. Dre, Dr. Dre d. (Mar 21); Jill 2001; Foo Fighters, There Dando (Apr 26); Bill Owen Is Nothing Left To Lose; (Jul 12). Shack, HMS Fable; Beck, Midnite Vultures. Fashion: With Millennium fever at March March an all-time high, designers 24 Ian Brown, Club 2 Dusty Springfield dies. push nostalgia to the max. Quattro, Nagoya, Japan. Claire McCardell’s 1950’s 25 Ian Brown, IMP Hall, influential style is Osaka, Japan. everywhere. Betsey 28 Ian Brown, Garden Johnson, Gianfranco Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Ferre, Vivienne Westwood 29 Ian Brown, Garden and Yohji Yamamoto Hall, Tokyo, Japan. celebrate career moments 30 Ian Brown, Liquid while Yves Room, Tokyo, Japan. Saint Laurent retires from April his ready-to-wear line. 20 Columbine High School Brazilian model Gisele massacre: Two teenagers Bundchen begins her from Colorado open fire on superstar reign on the their teachers and runways. Calvin Klein, classmates, killing 12 Anna Sui, Alexander students and 1 teacher, McQueen, Bella Freud, before committing suicide. Fendi, Gucci and May May Valentino. 24 Ian Brown, Sir Henry's, 3 A total of 66 tornadoes British Designer of the Cork, Republic of Ireland. break out in Oklahoma Year: Hussein Chalayan. 25 Ian Brown, Olympia and Kansas. Theatre, Dublin, Republic 26 Manchester United Visual arts: of Ireland. defeat Bayern Munich 2-1 Anish Kapoor, 26 Ian Brown, The in the Champions League Taratantara. Limelight, Belfast, Final, to complete a treble Northern Ireland. of League, FA Cup and 27 Ian Brown, The European Cup. Limelight, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 29 Ian Brown, Margam Park (Catatonia), Port Talbot, Wales. August 11 Ian Brown, Golden Greats. 21 Ian Brown, V99 Weston Park, Stafford, England. 22 Ian Brown, V99 Hylands Park, Chelmsford, England. October 1 Ian Brown, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 2 Ian Brown, Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. 10 Ian Brown, five gigs In one day: The Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh, Scotland. TJ's, Newport, Wales. The Attic, Cheltenham, England. Riddles Bar, Stoke, England. The Road House, Manchester, England. November 11 Ian Brown, Conway Hall, London, England. 23 Ian Brown, Northumbria University, Newcastle, England. 25 Ian Brown, The Octagon, Sheffield, England. 26 Ian Brown, The Royal Court, Liverpool, England. 27 Ian Brown, Leeds University, Leeds, England. 29 Ian Brown, Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland. 30 Ian Brown, Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland. December December December 2 Ian Brown, Civic Hall, 29 George Harrison is 31 Boris Yeltsin resigns as Wolverhampton, England. stabbed several times in President of Russia, to be 3 Ian Brown, UEA, the chest by an unknown replaced by Vladimir Putin. Norwich, England. assailant who had broken Queen Elizabeth II opens 5 Ian Brown, The Apollo, into his home. the Millennium Dome at Manchester, England. Greenwich, London. 6 Ian Brown, Rock City, Nottingham, England. 7 Ian Brown, Brixton Academy, London, England. 31 Ian Brown, Arena, Manchester, England.

2000

Art created by John 45s: All Saints, Pure Cinema: Squire in this year: Shores; Spiller, Groovejet Memento; Chicken Run; N/K (If This Ain’t Love); The Grinch; American Eminem, The Real Slim Psycho; Gladiator; The Shady & Stan (featuring Million Dollar Hotel; O Dido); Britney Spears, Brother, Where Art Thou?; Oops!... I Did It Again; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Kylie, Spinning Around; Dragon; Meet the Parents; Robbie Williams, Rock DJ; Scary Movie; Erin Clint Mansell, Lux Brockovich; Billy Elliot; Aeterna; LeAnn Rimes, Charlie's Angels; Final Can't Fight the Moonlight; Destination; Quills; Safri Duo, Played-a-live Snatch; Thirteen Days. (The Bongo Song); Modjo, d. Loretta Young (Aug 12). Lady (Hear Me Tonight); , Yellow; Girl Fiction: Thing, Last One Standing; J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter Chicane, Autumn Tactics and the Goblet of Fire; (End of Summer ); S Dan Brown, Angels and Club 7, Reach; Demons. Furtado, I’m Like A Bird; d. Alfred Elton van Vogt Madonna, Music & Don’t (Jan 26), Anthony Powell Tell Me; Madison Avenue, (Mar 28). Don’t Call Me Baby. LPs: Eminem, The Non-fiction: Marshall Mathers LP; The Beatles Anthology. , Hybrid d. Charles M. Schulz (Feb Theory; All Saints, Saints 12). & Sinners; Britney Spears, Oops!... I Did It Again; TV / Media: Westlife, Coast to Coast; Debuting: Big Brother Madonna, Music; Alice (CBS); Survivor (CBS); DeeJay, Who Needs Castaway 2000 (BBC1); Guitars Anyway?; U2, All The Weakest Link (BBC2); That You Can't Leave CSI: Crime Scene Behind. Investigation (CBS); Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO); January Malcolm in the Middle 31 Primal Scream, (FOX). XTRMNTR. Ending: Beverly Hills February 90210; Inspector Morse; 28 Oasis, Standing on the One Foot in the Grave; Shoulder of Giants. Chicago Hope. April 25 Ian Brown, Fashion: Roadmender, Logomania is the hallmark Northampton, England. of the New Millennium. 26 Ian Brown, Fashion's powerhouses Hammersmith Palais, vie for top designer names London, England. in their corporate stables - 27 Ian Brown, Empress with LVMH and Gucci Ballroom, Blackpool, Group garnering some of England. the most prestigious 29 Ian Brown, , names. Brazilian models Mosney Holiday Centre, invade the runways of the County Meath, Republic of world, while print covers Ireland. become dominated by May celebrities. Cerebral 20 Ian Brown, Rodon Club, fashion is on everyone’s Athens, Greece. mind from John Galliano’s 21 Ian Brown, Mylos Club, whimsical romper room to Thessaloniki, Greece. Hussein Chalayan’s 27 Ian Brown, Homelands, structurally engineered Mattersley Bowl, wearable furniture for the Blackpool, England. modern nomad. Trends June are ladylike with 80’s 3 Ian Brown, Homelands, touches, vibrant prints and Dalleagles, Straid Farm, lots of great accessories. New Cummock, Scotland. Tom Ford, Jil Sander and 8 Ian Brown, Keele Alber Elbaz are the year’s University, Newcastle-u- movers and shakers while Lyme, England. the always-classic Little 11 Ian Brown, Black Dress enjoys an Laugardalshollin, exhibition at F.I.T. and Reykjavic, Iceland. New York's Times Square 25 Ian Brown, Bowery hosts the show of the Ballroom, New York, USA. Millennium with host 29 Ian Brown, El Rey, Rudolph Giuliani. Hollywood, Los Angeles, British Designer of the USA. Year: Hussein Chalayan. July July July 26 Ian Brown, Main Stage, 10 Coldplay, Parachutes. 18 Sussex police launch a Visual arts: Quart Festival murder investigation after Banksy, Flower Chucker; Kristiansand, Norway. the body of a girl found Eduardo Chillida, Berlin; 27 Ian Brown, Fuji Rock near Pulborough is Damien Hirst, Lysergic Festival 2000, Nigata, confirmed to be that of Acid Diethylamide. Japan. Sarah Payne, who was reported missing on 1st July. 25 A Concorde flight from Paris to New York crashes shortly after take-off, killing all 109 people aboard, and four others on the ground. August 4 Ian Brown, Maravillas Stage, Benicassim Festival, Spain. 25 Ian Brown, Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, Scotland. 26 Ian Brown, Leeds Festival, Leeds, England. 27 Ian Brown, Reading Festival, Reading, England. November November 23 Ian Brown, The Red 7 In the U.S. presidential Box, Dublin, Republic of election, Republican Ireland. challenger George W. 24 Ian Brown, The Nerve Bush defeats Democrat Centre, , Northern Vice President Al Gore, Ireland. but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida. October 2 Radiohead, Kid A. December 31 Ian Brown and Primal Scream, Alexandra Palace, London, England.

2001

Art created by John 45s: Destiny’s Child, Cinema: Squire in this year: Survivor & Bootylicious; Mulholland Drive; Harry 'Léger City Butterfly' (oil Kylie Minogue, Can’t Get Potter and the and acrylic on canvas, 90" You Out Of My Head; Dr Philosopher's Stone; The x 120"). Dre feat. , Still Lord of the Rings: The D.R.E.; System F, Out of Fellowship of the Ring; the Blue; S Club 7, Don’t Zoolander; Donnie Darko; Stop Movin’; , Hannibal; Shrek, Last Nite; Patrick Cassidy, Monsters, Inc.; Pearl Vide Cor Meum; Mario Harbor, Ocean's Eleven; Più, The Vision; Daft Jay and Silent Bob Strike Punk, Digital Love; NU Back; Lara Croft: Tomb NRG, Dreamland; Raider; Moulin Rouge!; Madonna, What It Feels . Like for a Girl; Missy Elliott, Get Ur Freak On; Fiction: South, Paint The Silence. Dan Brown, Deception LPs: Westlife, World Of Point; Douglas Coupland, Our Own; The Strokes, Is All Families Are Psychotic. This It; Daft Punk, d. Douglas Adams (May Discovery; Nas, Stillmatic; 11), Ken Kesey (Nov 10). Jay-Z, The Blueprint; Destiny's Child, Survivor; Non-fiction: Enya, A Day Without Rain; Dr. Atkins' New Diet 2pac, Until the End of Revolution; Antonia Time; Cast, Beetroot. Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey. January 20 George W. Bush TV / Media: succeeds Bill Clinton as Debuting: Pop Idol (ITV1); President of the United The Office (BBC2); 24 States. (FOX); Scrubs (NBC); February Phoenix Nights (Ch 4); 21 UK foot and mouth Murder in Mind (BBC1). crisis begins. Ending: Baywatch; March Teletubbies. 18 The Rub, Leeds Rocket. Fashion: 19 The Rub, Glasgow King It's a busy year in fashion Tuts. as we are seeing double 20 The Rub, Manchester with designers who are University. working double-duty for 23 The Rub, London two fashion houses, Camden Underworld. including Tom Ford, who 26 Ian Brown, Planet took the helm at Yves Groove Volume 3. Saint Laurent. The May Guggenheim Museum in 24 Versailles wedding hall New York celebrates 25 disaster, Talpiot, years of elegant fashion Jerusalem. During the from Giorgio Armani and wedding of Keren and the Metropolitan Museum Asaf Dror, a large portion acknowledges a return to of the third floor of the prim, proper and elegant four-storey building with an ode to fashion's collapsed. As a result, 23 first lady in 'Jacqueline people fell to their deaths Kennedy: The White and 380 were injured. House Years'. A bevy of June Belgian models are 4 Radiohead, Amnesiac. stealing the scene from July July their Brazilian 6 Ian Brown, Lynx Zero 26 A Brass Eye counterparts. Trendwise, Gravity Event, London, 'Paedogeddon' special Military Chic and His on England. causes furore among Her looks spice up the sections of the British Ladylike styles that tabloid press. continue to dominate the August runways. 18 Ian Brown, V2001, British Designer of the Western Park, Stafford, Year: Alexander England. McQueen. 19 Ian Brown, V2001, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Visual arts: England. Peter Doig, 100 Years September September Ago; Tracy Harris, Funnel; 17 Ian Brown, F.E.A.R. 11 Al-Qaeda attacks the Luc Tuymans, Within. World Trade Centre and Exhibitions: Max The Pentagon. Beckmann retrospective at October October the Pompidou Centre, 1 Ian Brown, Music Of The 7 In response to 9/11, the Paris. Spheres. U.S. invades Afghanistan. d. David Sylvester (Jun 26 Ian Brown, The 19). Pumphouse, Brick Lane, London, England. November 22 Ian Brown, De Montfort University, Leicester, England. 23 Ian Brown, Brixton Academy, London, England. 24 Ian Brown, The Apollo, Manchester, England. 30 Ian Brown, Club Quattro, Nagoya, Japan. November 30 Beatle George Harrison dies after a long battle with cancer. December 1 Ian Brown, Club Quattro, Osaka, Japan. 3 Ian Brown, Liquid Room, Tokyo, Japan. 4 Ian Brown, Liquid Room, Tokyo, Japan.

2002

Art created by John 45s: Christina Aguilera, Cinema: Squire in this year: Dirrty; , Spider-Man; The Lord of 'All I Really Want' (plaster Complicated; Scooter, the Rings: The Two of paris, acrylic, cellulose Ramp! (The Logical Towers; Star Wars and gloss); 'Animal Skull' Song); Sugababes, Freak Episode II: Attack of the (animal skull, household Like Me; Vanessa Carlton, Clones; Harry Potter and gloss, used on front cover A Thousand Miles; the Chamber of Secrets; of Time Changes Eminem, Lose Yourself; Die Another Day; Gangs of Everything); 'Animal Skull' Jennifer Lopez, Jenny New York; 8 Mile; The (photograph of a 1999 from the Block; George Bourne Identity; Bowling work, used on front cover Michael, Shoot the Dog; for Columbine; 24 Hour of Joe Louis CD1); 'Animal Holly Valance, Kiss Kiss; Party People; Scooby- Skull, Foliage' (photograph DJ Sammy, Heaven; Nelly Doo; Jackass: The Movie. of a 1999 work, used on feat. Kelly Rowland, d. George Roy Hill (Dec front cover of Joe Louis Dilemma; Coldplay, 27). CD2); 'Did Your Lazy Clocks; Angelus, My Good For Nothing Soldiers Heart's Desire; Darren Fiction: Cast Their Cynical Spell' Tate vs. Jono Grant, Let Alice Sebold, The Lovely (photograph); 'Eternal The Light Shine In. Bones; Raymond Benson, Recurrence' (animal skull, LPs: Eminem, The Die Another Day; Tracy household gloss); 'I Heard Eminem Show; Avril Chevalier, The Girl with Tell There Were Fifty Lavigne, Let Go; Christina the Pearl Earring. Million Galaxies' Aguilera, Stripped; Sigur (photograph); 'I Miss You' Rós, ( ); , Non-fiction: (photograph); 'Just A Up the Bracket; Death in Margaret MacMillan, Stone's Throw From Sin' Vegas, Scorpio Rising; Peacemakers: The Paris (photograph); 'Nothing Beck, Sea Change. Peace Conference of 1919 Else Cuts Quite Like A and Its Attempt to End Knife' (photograph); War; Michael J. Fox, 'Saturday Morning' (acrylic Lucky Man. on canvas); 'Small Animal Skull' (animal skull); 'So TV / Media: Tell Me What Are The Debuting: The Wire (NBC); Chances Of Us Meeting The Osbournes reality Like This Down In The Dirt' show (MTV); American (photograph); 'The Artificial Idol: The Search for a Needs Of A Slave Superstar (FOX); I'm a Population' (photograph); Celebrity, Get Me Out of 'Theologically Speaking' Here! (ITV1); The Shield (photograph collage); 'To (FX Networks); Harry Hill's Find A Way To Your Heart' TV Burp (ITV1); Dick and (photograph); 'Try To See Dom in da Bungalow It From Every Point Of (CBBC); CSI: Miami View' (photograph); 'You (CBS). Are My Darkness My Ending: Spin City; The X- Shelter My Knowledge My Files; Ally McBeal; The Cradle And My Sense' Generation Game. (photograph). d. Chuck Jones (Feb 22), Spike Milligan (Feb 27), January January Dudley Moore (Mar 27). Primal Scream, . 1 Introduction of euro banknotes and coins in Fashion: twelve European The year's biggest trends countries. include Folkloric looks and February Skirts-over-pants, to the 15 Ian Brown, The hot accessories like boots, Octagon, Sheffield, big bags and oversized England. scarves. Young model 16 Ian Brown, Leeds Anne V. is the face of the University, Leeds, moment. Cinematic blue- England. screen collection from 17 Ian Brown, The Royal Viktor & Rolf. Runway Court, Liverpool, England. debut for Zac Posen. 19 Ian Brown, Llandudno British Designer of the Conference Centre, Year: no ceremony. Llandudno, Wales. 20 Ian Brown, Rock City, Visual arts: Nottingham, England. Ken Currie, Three 21 Ian Brown, The Oncologists; Anish Academy, Birmingham, Kapoor, Marsyas. England. d. Herb Ritts (Dec 26). 23 Ian Brown, King Georges Hall, Blackburn, England. 24 Ian Brown, Northumbria University, Newcastle, England. 25 Ian Brown, Town Hall, Middlesbrough, England. 27 Ian Brown, Music Hall, Aberdeen, Scotland. 28 Ian Brown, Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland. March March 2 Ian Brown, UEA, 30 The Queen Mother Norwich, England. dies. 3 Ian Brown, The Guildhall, Southampton, England. 4 Ian Brown, The Corn Exchange, Cambridge, England. 6 Ian Brown, The Rock, Bristol, England. 7 Ian Brown, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales. 8 Ian Brown, Leas Cliffe Hall, Folkestone, England. 10 Ian Brown, Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England. 11 Ian Brown, Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England. 13 Ian Brown, The Limelight, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 14 Ian Brown, The Nerve Centre, Derry, Northern Ireland. 16 Ian Brown, NEC, Killarney, Republic of Ireland. 17 Ian Brown, The Olympia, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. 18 Ian Brown, South, Waterford, Republic of Ireland. April April 22 Ian Brown, The 15 Oasis, The Hindu Botanique Orangieies, Times. Brussels, Belgium. 21 Peter Buck of R.E.M. is 23 Ian Brown, Rotown alleged to have caused a Club, Rotterdam, Holland. disturbance onboard a 24 Ian Brown, Melkweg transatlantic flight from Max Club, Amsterdam, Seattle to London. Holland. 25 dies in a car accident in Honduras. May 10 Ian Brown, May Ball, Derby Univesity, Derby, England. 17 Ian Brown, Alternastage, Rock-im- Park Festival, Frankenstadion, Nurnberg, Germany. 18 Ian Brown, Berlin, Germany. 19 Ian Brown, Walkman Alternastage, Rock-am- Ring Festival, Nurburgring, Germany. June 29 Ian Brown, Main Stage, Glastonbury Festival, England. July July 12 Ian Brown, Move 1 Oasis, Heathen Festival, Old Trafford Chemistry. Cricket Ground, Manchester, England. 13 Ian Brown, Festival, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. 14 Ian Brown, T in The Park, Kinross, Scotland. 28 Ian Brown, Red Marquee, Fuji Festival, Naeba, Japan. August August 9 Ian Brown, Haldern 26 Coldplay, A Rush of Festival, Rees, Germany. Blood to the Head. 17 Ian Brown, NME Stage, V2002, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, England. 18 Ian Brown, NME Stage, V2002, Weston Park, Stafford, England. October October 10 John Squire, XFM radio 12 Bombings in the tourist live session, London, district of Kuta, on the England. Indonesian island of Bali, 20 Ian Brown, Ulster Hall, kill 202 people. Belfast, Northern Ireland. 23 Moscow theatre 22 John Squire, Virgin hostage crisis. Radio live session, London, England. November November 11 John Squire, King Tut's 15 Myra Hindley dies from Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, a heart attack. Scotland. 12 John Squire, Liverpool University, Liverpool, England. 13 John Squire, Academy 2, Birmingham, England. 23 Ian Brown, Gloucester Hall, Fort Regent, Jersey, Channel Islands. 26 Ian Brown, Of The Spheres. December 1 Ian Brown, The Point, Dublin, Republic of Ireland (supporting ). 3 Ian Brown, NEC, Birmingham, England (supporting Manic Street Preachers). 4 Ian Brown, SECC, Glasgow, Scotland (supporting Manic Street Preachers). 6 Ian Brown, MEN Arena, Manchester, England (supporting Manic Street Preachers); Primal Scream, The Academy, Brixton, London. 7 Ian Brown, Wembley Arena, London, England (supporting Manic Street Preachers). 9 Primal Scream, Royal Court theatre, Liverpool. 10 Ian Brown, Telewest Arena, Newcastle, England (supporting Manic Street Preachers); Primal Scream, The Academy, Birmingham. 11 Ian Brown, Nottingham Arena, Nottingham, England (supporting Manic Street Preachers). 12 Ian Brown, Brighton Centre, Brighton, England (supporting Manic Street Preachers); Primal Scream, Sheffield Octagon. 14 Ian Brown, The Pavilions, , England (supporting Manic Street Preachers); Primal Scream, Manchester University. 15 Ian Brown, Cardiff Arena, Cardiff, Wales (supporting Manic Street Preachers).

2003

Art created by John 45s: R. Kelly, Ignition Cinema: Squire in this year: (Remix); Eminem, Sing for The Lord of the Rings: The '15 Days' (plaster of paris, the Moment; Beyoncé Return of the King; Lost in acrylic and gloss); featuring Jay Z, Crazy In Translation; Bruce 'Marshall's House' (oil on Love; , Almighty; Finding Nemo; canvas, 60" x 60"); Where Is The Love?; The Matrix Reloaded; The 'Marshall's House (Study)' , Pretty Green Matrix Revolutions; (oil on canvas, 44" x 82"); Eyes; , Breathing Terminator 3: Rise of the 'Shine A Little Light' (oak (Airwave 2003); Paul van Machines; Kill Bill Vol. 1. blocks and acrylic in Dyk, Time of Our Lives; 4 drawer, 16" x 20"); 'Sophia' Strings, Let It Rain; Fiction: (household gloss on OutKast, Hey Ya!; Britney Dan Brown, The Da Vinci glass); 'Strange Feeling' Spears featuring Code; J.K. Rowling, Harry (oak paint on wood, 14" x Madonna, Me Against The Potter and the Order of the 6"); 'Swimming Through Music; Phoenix. The Holes In Dead feat. , American Painters' (oil on Burned With Desire; The Non-fiction: canvas, 30" x 72"); Darkness, I Believe in a Gail Collins, America's 'Welcome To ' Thing Called Love; Justin Women: Four Hundred (household gloss on Timberlake, Rock Your Years of Dolls, Drudges, glass). Body; Boogie Pimps, Helpmates, and Heroines. Somebody to Love; Annie Lennox, Pavement TV / Media: Cracks; , I Debuting: Arrested Begin To Wonder; Kelly Development (FOX); Peep Rowland, Can't Nobody; Show (Ch 4); Da Ali G Fabolous feat. Tamia, Into Show (Ch 4); Nip/Tuck (FX You; Supergrass, Seen Networks); The O.C. the Light. (FOX). LPs: Linkin Park, Meteora; Ending: Buffy the Vampire Dido, Life for Rent; Jay-Z, Slayer; Dawson's Creek; The Black Album; This Is Your Life; Beyoncé, Dangerously In Futurama; Fifteen to One. Love; , Sound of the Underground; Fashion: Madonna, American Life; Some of the year's best The National, Sad Songs collections include: Gucci, for Dirty Lovers; David Viktor & Rolf, Boudicca Bowie, Reality; The Durutti and Narciso Rodriguez. Column, Someone Else's Lingerie looks, animal Party. prints, thigh-high boots and the year's hottest January beauty trend, fiery red lips. 13 's guitarist, Retro redone is also a , is popular theme as arrested by Scotland Yard designers go mad for mod. on suspicion of Rise of Russian model, possessing indecent Natalia Vodianova. images of children on his British Designer of the home computer. Year: Alexander February February February McQueen. 1 John Squire, King Tut's 3 Phil 15 Global protests against Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Spector is arrested for the proposed invasion of Visual arts: Scotland. investigation of homicide Iraq. More than 10 million Neo Rauch, Gold; Julian 9 John Squire, London after the body of actress people protest in over 600 Opie, Woman Taking Off ICA, London, England. Lana Clarkson is found at cities worldwide, the Man’s Shirt in Two Stages; 14 - 16 Exhibition of John his home in Alhambra, largest protest prior to the Will Cotton, Ice Squire's artwork (1988 - California. war's outbreak. Cavern; Vincent Desiderio, 2004): Institute Of Cockaigne; Tony Cragg, Contemporary Arts, Stainless Steel Pillar. London, England. March March 21 John Squire, The 20 First American bombs Limelight, Belfast, dropped on Baghdad, Iraq Northern Ireland. as President Saddam 25 John Squire, Glasgow Hussein and his sons fail Academy, Glasgow, to comply with President Scotland. Bush's 48 hour mandate 26 John Squire, demanding their exit from Shepherds Bush Empire, Iraq. London, England. 20 Land troops from 27 John Squire, United States, United , Kingdom, Australia and Manchester, England. invade Iraq. 22 The United States and the begin their 'Shock and Awe' campaign with a massive air strike on military targets in Baghdad. April 9 The statue of Saddam Hussein is toppled by U.S. forces as they seize control of Baghdad. May May 7 - 16 Exhibition of John 11 Noel Redding, bass Squire's artwork (1988 - player in the 2004): Great Northern, Experience, dies. Deansgate, Manchester, England. June 9 Radiohead, Hail to the Thief. July 18 David Kelly, a key weapons expert on Iraq, is found dead. September 8 Ian Brown, Under The Influence. November Primal Scream, . December 13 Saddam Hussein is captured in Tikrit by US forces. 17 Ian Huntley is sentenced to life imprisonment for the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

2004

Art created by John 45s: Blink-182, I Miss Cinema: Squire in this year: You; Avril Lavigne, My The Passion of the Christ; 'ddd2a' (oil on canvas, 44" Happy Ending; , Fahrenheit 9/11; The x 82"); 'gtr' (oil on canvas, All These Things That I've Aviator; Harry Potter and 72" x 90"); 'Ingredients 4' Done; Destiny’s Child, the Prisoner of Azkaban; (oil on canvas, 92" x 114"); Lose My Breath; Kylie, I Collateral; The Day After 'Rotten 2c' (acrylic on Believe In You & Giving Tomorrow; Anchorman: canvas, 119" x 92"); 'Run1' You Up; Eminem, Just The Legend of Ron (oil and acrylic on canvas, Lose It & Like Toy Burgundy; Shrek 2; 53" x 213"); 'Self portrait' Soldiers; Girls Aloud, The Spider-Man 2; The (digitally altered Show; , Call on Incredibles; Meet the photograph); 'SU4' (oil on Me; Linkin Park & Jay-Z, Fockers; Kill Bill Vol. 2; canvas, 69" x 51"); 'SU5' Numb/Encore; Uniting Dodgeball: A True (oil on canvas, 69" x 51"); Nations, Out of Touch; Underdog Story; Dead 'SU6c' ( oil on canvas, 69" , American Man’s Shoes; Harold & x 51"); 'Ten From Ten'; Idiot; Britney Spears, Kumar Go to White Castle; 'The Bull' (oil on acrylic on Toxic; Frankee, F.U.R.B. The Stepford Wives; The canvas, 53" x 213") (F U Right Back); U2, Football Factory. Vertigo; The Libertines, d. Marlon Brando (Jul 1). Can't Stand Me Now; Franz Ferdinand, Take Me Fiction: Out; James Holden, A Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Break in the Clouds; Strange & Mr. Norrell: A StoneBridge feat. Novel. Therese, Put 'Em High; , Someone Non-fiction: Like Me/Right Now; The 9/11 Commission Michael Gray, The Report; Bob Dylan, Weekend; , Chronicles, Volume 1; Bill Through the Wire; Clinton, My Life; Lynne Perasma, Swing 2 Truss, Eats, Shoots & Harmony; George Leaves: The Zero Michael, Flawless (Go to Tolerance Approach to the City); Eve Stangello, Punctuation; Diarmaid Davali. MacCulloch, The LPs: , Funeral; Reformation: A History. Avril Lavigne, Under My ; Eminem, Encore; TV / Media: The Killers, Hot Fuss; The The Power of Nightmares Libertines, The Libertines; (BBC2). Gwen Stefani, Love. Debuting: The X Factor Angel. Music. Baby.; Mylo, (ITV1); The Apprentice Destroy Rock & Roll; (NBC); Strictly Come , Confessions; Franz Dancing (BBC1); Ferdinand, Franz Shameless (Ch 4); Ferdinand; U2, How to Deadwood (HBO); Green Dismantle an Atomic Wing (Ch 4); CSI: New Bomb; Beastie Boys, To York (CBS); Lost (ABC); the 5 Boroughs. Desperate Housewives (ABC). January January Ending: Lizzie McGuire; 16 Primal Scream, The 13 Serial killer Harold Sex and the City; Friends; Academy, Glasgow. Shipman is found hanged Frasier; Ricki Lake. 17 Primal Scream, The in his cell at Wakefield d. Sir Peter Ustinov (Mar Academy, Glasgow. Prison. 28). 18 Primal Scream, The 28 The Hutton Inquiry Apollo, Manchester. argues that the British Fashion: 20 Primal Scream, The Government did not falsify This year sees the return Academy, Birmingham. information in the "sexed of old school couture with 21 Primal Scream, up dossier." The report the craftsmanship of . criticizes the BBC's role in Olivier Theyskens at 23 Primal Scream, the death of David Kelly. Rochas and newcomers , Proenza Schouler. London. Perennial provocateur February Alexander McQueen wows 3 The CIA admits that the fashion world with a there was no imminent spectacular depression- threat from weapons of era dance marathon. Bold mass destruction before prints are a major trend, the 2003 invasion of Iraq. the accessory of the 6 A suicide bomber kills 41 moment is the brooch, and people on a metro car in winter's must-have, the Moscow. cape. Model of the year March Daria Werbowy graces 11 Simultaneous every cover and every explosions on rush hour catwalk. It is also the trains in Madrid kill 190 changing of the guard at people. many prestigious fashion 14 In the Russian houses with new presidential election, designers arriving to take Vladimir Putin easily wins the reins at legendary a second term. labels including Hermès April and Yves Saint Laurent. 22 Two trains carrying British Designer of the explosives and fuel collide Year: Phoebe Philo. in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing 161 people, Visual arts: injuring 1,300 and Banksy, Napalm; Anish destroying thousands of Kapoor, Cloud Gate; homes. Cecily Brown, 1000 28 Abu Ghraib prisoner Thread Count; Carlo Maria abuse in Iraq is revealed Mariani, Head in the on the 60 Clouds; Matt Saunders, Minutes II. Couples (Margit and Karl- May Heinz); Zhao Bo, Mother 6 The final episode of 2004. Friends airs on NBC, A fire in the Momart drawing an estimated 52 storage warehouse million viewers in North destroys major works by America. Damien Hirst, Tracey 15 Arsenal complete a Emin, Helen Chadwick, whole English Premiership Patrick Heron, and other season unbeaten. British artists (May 24). 19 Tony Blair is hit with a Exhibitions: Edward purple flour bomb in the Hopper at the Tate chamber of the House of Gallery, London. Commons during a session of Prime Minister's Questions. June 5 Ronald Reagan dies. 30 The preliminary hearings begin in Iraq in the trial of former president Saddam Hussein, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. July July 10 Ian Brown, London 4 Greece beat Portugal 1- Hospital Club-Adidas Store 0 to win Euro 2004. Launch, England. 25 Lance Armstrong wins 23 Ian Brown, The Village an unprecedented 6th Dublin, Republic of Ireland. consecutive Tour de 25 Ian Brown, Claremont France cycling title. Landscape Garden, Surrey, England. August August 19 Primal Scream, 22 Armed robbers steal Shepherds Bush Empire, Edvard Munch's The London. Scream, Madonna, and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo. 29 Michael Schumacher wins a record seventh world championship title. September September September 13 Ian Brown, HMV Store, 28 Brian Wilson completes 1 Chechen terrorists take Market St, Manchester, Smile, 37 years after its between 1,000 and 1,500 England. original planned release. people hostage, mostly 15 Ian Brown, HMV Store, children, in the Beslan 150 Oxford Street, school hostage crisis. London, England. They demand the release 18 Ian Brown, KROQ of Chechen terrorists Inland Invasion, Hyundai imprisoned in Pavillion, California, USA. neighbouring Ingushetia and the independence of Chechnya from Russia. A total of 334 hostages died, 186 of them children. 17 Hurricane Jeanne leaves mudslides in Haiti, killing 3,006 people. October October 13 Ian Brown, Leeds 8 Kenneth Bigley, the University, Leeds, British hostage held by England. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an 14 Ian Brown, Glasgow Iraqi insurgent, is killed. Academy, Glasgow, 16 Arsenal lose for the first Scotland. time in 49 league games 15 Ian Brown, Glasgow after a 2-0 defeat to Academy, Glasgow, Manchester United at Old Scotland. Trafford. 18 Ian Brown, Manchester Apollo, Manchester, England. 19 Ian Brown, Manchester Apollo, Manchester, England. 21 Ian Brown, Brixton Academy, London, England. 22 Ian Brown, Brixton Academy, London, England. November November 5 Ian Brown, 23 Sir Alex Ferguson Nightclub, London, takes charge of his England. 1,000th game as manager 16 Ian Brown, . of Manchester United. 24 Ian Brown, The Leadmill, Sheffield, England. 25 Ian Brown, Greenock Town Hall, Greenock, Scotland. December December 8 Ian Brown, Olympia 15 Home Secretary David Theatre, Dublin, Republic Blunkett resigns after it of Ireland. was revealed that he had 9 Ian Brown, Olympia an adulterous relationship Theatre, Dublin, Republic with Kimberly Fortier. of Ireland. 22 Armed robbers in 11 Ian Brown, The Nerve Northern Ireland steal over Centre, Derry, Northern £22 million from the Ireland. headquarters of the 12 Ian Brown, Ulster Hall, Northern Bank. The Belfast, Northern Ireland. robbery is linked to the 14 Ian Brown, The Provisional Irish Foundry, Carlow, Republic Republican Army. of Ireland. 26 The strongest 15 Ian Brown, Dolans, earthquake in 40 years Limerick, Republic of originates from the Indian Ireland. Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra island in Indonesia, measuring 9.3 on the Richter Scale and creating tsunami tidal waves that sweep across much of the coastlines of Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Burma, Thailand, and Indonesia. It claims the lives of at least 290,000 people, from South Asia to as far as Somalia in Africa.

2005

Art created by John 45s: Eminem, When I'm Cinema: Squire in this year: Gone; , Star Wars Episode III: 'Face' (oil on canvas, 6' x Don't Cha & ; Revenge of the Sith; Harry 6'); 'Figure In Orange' (oil Sugababes, Push The Potter and the Goblet of on canvas, 6' x 6'); 'Help: A Button; Girls Aloud, Fire, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Day In The Life'; 'Man With Biology; Tiësto, Adagio for Batman Begins; Sin City; A Bloody Nose' (oil on Strings; Sunset Strippers, The Exorcism of Emily canvas, 8' x 6'); 'Mother' Falling Stars; Sigur Rós, Rose; War of the Worlds; (oil on canvas, 8' x 6'); Hoppípolla; Jessica Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; The 'Swastika' (oil on canvas, Simpson, These Boots Are Dukes of Hazzard; The 8' x 6'); 'Tattoo' (oil on Made for Walkin'; Chronicles of Narnia: The canvas, 8' x 6'); 'Torso' (oil , Pon de Replay; Lion, the Witch and the on canvas, 82" x 41"); KT Tunstall, Suddenly I Wardrobe; King Kong; 'Woman With Magpie' (oil See; Mylo, In My Arms; Brick. on canvas, 8' x 6'). Gwen Stefani, Cool; Coldplay, Speed of Sound; Fiction: Mariah Carey, We Belong Amanda Eyre Ward, How Together; Franz to Be Lost; J.K. Rowling, Ferdinand, Do You Want Harry Potter and the Half- To; Black Eyed Peas, Blood Prince; Lindsey Don't Phunk with My Heart Davis, See Delphi and Die. & My Humps; Uniting Nations, You and Me & Ai Non-fiction: No Corrida; Jennifer Azadeh Moaveni, Lipstick Lopez, Get Right; Doves, Jihad. Black and White Town; Amerie, 1 Thing; The TV / Media: Chemical Brothers, Debuting: The Office (U.S. Galvanize; Feeder, version) (NBC); Nathan Feeling a Moment; Barley (Channel 4); Doctor Madonna, Hung Up; Who (BBC1); The Jeremy Kuffdam & Plant, Summer Kyle Show (ITV1); My Dream; DJ Orkidea, Name Is Earl (NBC); Bleak Beautiful; Nelly, N Dey House (BBC1); Deal or No Say; Blink-182, Not Now; Deal (Ch 4). Route 1 feat. Jenny Frost, Ending: NYPD Blue; The Crash Landing; Joey Osbournes; Everybody Negro; Make A Move On Loves Raymond. Me; 4 Strings, Sunrise; d. Richard Whiteley (Jun Morjac, Morjac Theme; 26), Ronnie Barker (Oct Bananarama, Look on the 3). Floor. LPs: The Pussycat Dolls, Fashion: PCD; Sigur Rós, Takk...; Stiletto-heeled shoes with , Demon Days; extreme pointed toes Sugababes, Taller in More became the dominant Ways; Mariah Carey, The trend in women's footwear. Emancipation of Mimi; Big volume emerges as Kelly Clarkson, the major trend. Full skirts Breakaway; The National, rule the runways, as do Alligator; Madonna, monochromatic collections Confessions on a Dance of white for summer and a Floor; , return to black for winter. Supernature; Fort Minor, Now a bonafide The Rising Tied; Kate supermodel, Daria Bush, Aerial. Werbowy is still dominating the catwalk. January January January Jennifer Lopez cashes in 22 Ian Brown, Wien Arena, 31 The Michael Jackson 9 Mahmoud is on the fashion game with Vienna February. child sexual abuse trial elected to succeed Yasser the launch of Sweetface. 26 Ian Brown, Webster commences in Santa Arafat as Palestinian The Council of Fashion Hall Night Club, New York Barbara, California, 14 Authority President. Designers of America City, USA. months after his arrest. 20 George W. Bush is honours style icon Kate 28 Ian Brown, The Mod inaugurated in Moss and Lanvin designer Club, Toronto, Canada. Washington, D.C., for his Alber Elbaz among other second term as U.S. fashion luminaries. The President. newest crop of models 30 The first free includes: Bianca, Natasha, Parliamentary elections Cintia and Morgane. since 1958 take place in British Designer of the Iraq. Year: Christopher Bailey. February 10 North Korea Visual arts: announces that it Gerhard Richter, possesses nuclear September; Inka weapons as a protection Essenhigh, Shopping; against the hostility it feels Damien Hirst, Beautiful from the U.S. Spill of Light in Destitute Blackness Painting; Christo and Jeanne- Claude, The Gates. d. Rudolph Moshammer March (Jan 14). 5 Ian Brown, Stockholm Mondon Club, Sweden. 13 Ian Brown, Los Angeles , USA. 14 Ian Brown, Anaheim House of Blues, California, USA. 15 Ian Brown, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, USA. 24 Ian Brown, Blackpool Empress Ballroom, England. 25 Ian Brown, Bridlington Spa, England. 26 Ian Brown, Brighton Centre, England. 28 Ian Brown, Edinburgh Corn Exchange, Scotland. 29 Ian Brown, Birmingham Academy, England. April 2 Pope John Paul II dies. 9 The marriage of The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles takes place, after being briefly postponed after the Pope's death. May May May 28 Ian Brown, Carling 24, 16 Oasis, Lyla. 12 US sports tycoon Manchester Academy, 30 Oasis, Don’t Believe Malcolm Glazer wins England. the Truth. control of Manchester United with a £790m takeover bid. Fans react vehemently to the news. 16 Kuwaiti women given the right to vote 17 George Galloway appears before a U.S. Senate committee, to answer allegations of making money from the Iraqi Oil-for-Food Programme; Kylie Minogue reveals that she has breast cancer. 26 Liverpool FC win a dramatic Champions League final on penalties, after trailing AC Milan 3-0 at half-time. 31 Mark Felt reveals that he is Deep Throat, the source who leaked the secrets of the Watergate scandal to in the 1970s, helping to bring down Richard Nixon. June June 4 Ian Brown, Berlin 13 Michael Jackson is Festival, Germany. acquitted of all charges of 26 Ian Brown and Primal harming children. Scream, Glastonbury Festival, England. July July July 31 Primal Scream, Fuji 2 20 years after Live Aid, 4 Violent G8 Rock Festival. stages concerts in demonstrations in 10 cities around the world Gleneagles. – including London, 6 London wins the right to Philadelphia and Moscow host the 2012 Olympic – to exert pressure on Games. political leaders to solve 7 Four terrorist explosions the problem of poverty in rock the transport network Africa. in London, three on the London Underground and one on a bus. 52 people were killed and more than 700 injured on 7/7. 21 A terrorist attack on London, similar to the July 7 attacks, includes 4 attempted bomb attacks on 3 Underground trains and a London bus. The bombs failed to explode properly, and only one injury was reported. 22 A Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, is shot dead at a London underground station by police who mistake him for a suicide bomber. 28 The Provisional IRA issues a statement formally ordering an end to the armed campaign it has pursued since 1969 and ordering all its units to dump their arms. August August August 20 Ian Brown, V2005, 16 Madonna breaks her 21 The final mass of World Staffordshire, England. left hand and collarbone Youth Day is held at 21 Ian Brown, V2005, when she falls off a horse Marienfeld, Cologne. Chelmsford, England. in the grounds of her 29 At least 1,800 are Wiltshire mansion on her killed, and severe damage 47th birthday. is caused along the U.S. 22 Oasis, The Importance Gulf Coast, as Hurricane of Being Idle. Katrina strikes the , Mississippi and Alabama coastal areas. Within hours, levees give way and is flooded. September September 5 Ian Brown, All Ablaze. 12 The English cricket 19 Ian Brown, The team draw their final test Greatest. match with Australia to win the Ashes. October October 21 Ian Brown, Mylos Club, 5 The Church of England’s Salonica, Greece. first ever black archbishop, 22 Ian Brown, Rodon @ John Sentamu, is Club 22, Athens, Greece. confirmed at a ceremony in east London. 8 An earthquake in Kashmir kills an estimated 80,000 people. 19 Saddam Hussein’s trial begins in Baghdad. November November November 10 Ian Brown, Bilbao (Kafe 13 Sir Paul McCartney 2 David Blunkett resigns Antzokia), Spain. becomes the first musician for a second time from 11 Ian Brown, Madrid to broadcast live music to Tony Blair’s cabinet. (Divino Aqualung), Spain. a human audience in 9 Tony Blair suffers his 12 Ian Brown, Valencia space. first defeat in the House of (Sala Republicca), Spain. 19 is arrested Commons, when MPs 13 Ian Brown, Barcelona in Vietnam, charged with voted against a proposed (Razzmatazz 2), Spain. having with underage amendment to the 17 Ian Brown, Doncaster girls. Terrorism Bill. Dome, Doncaster, 24 Pubs and clubs are England. allowed to extend their 18 Ian Brown, Glasgow opening hours, with some Academy, Glasgow, opting for a 24-hour Scotland. license; Rosa Parks dies. 21 Ian Brown, Newcastle 25 George Best dies. Academy, Newcastle, England. 22 Ian Brown, Birmingham Academy, Birmingham, England. 25 Ian Brown, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales. 26 Ian Brown, Brixton Academy, London, England. 29 Ian Brown, Poole Lighthouse, Dorset, England. 30 Ian Brown, Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth, England. December December 1 Ian Brown, UEA, 3 The service for George Norwich, England. Best takes place at 3 Ian Brown, MEN Arena, Stormont, Belfast, before Manchester, England. his burial. 5 Ian Brown, Ambassador 5 ‘Civil partnerships’ Theatre, Dublin, Republic between same-sex of Ireland. couples are recognised by 6 Ian Brown, Ambassador law. Theatre, Dublin, Republic of Ireland; Primal Scream, Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone, Kent, England. 7 Ian Brown, Ambassador Theatre, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. 9 Ian Brown, The Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

2006

Art created by John 45s: Mickey Modelle feat. Cinema: Squire in this year: Jessy, Dancing In The The Da Vinci Code; High 'A Sixth Of The Earth' Dark; , Say It School Musical; Pirates of (mixed media on board, Right; feat. Wyclef the Caribbean: Dead 40" x 30"); 'All That We Jean, Hips Don't Lie; Man's Chest; Ice Age: The Have Glows More Brightly Christina Aguilera, Ain’t Meltdown; Brick; Casino Still' (mixed media on No Other Man; Cascada, Royale; Cars; You, Me board, 47.5" x 23.5"); 'And Everytime We Touch; and Dupree; Wedding Some Held Butterflies Akon feat. Eminem, Crashers; Seraphim Falls; Between Their Lips' (mixed Smack That; The Click; The Prestige. media on board, 12" x Pussycat Dolls, Beep & I 12"); 'Annalee Faro Don’t Need A Man; Girls Fiction: Pearse' (pure pigment and Aloud, Something Kinda Douglas Coupland, jPod; plaster on canvas on Ooooh; Fedde Le Grande, John Updike, Terrorist. board, 37.25" x 23.5"); Put Your Hands Up For 'Anything to keep us from Detroit; Ne-Yo, Sexy Love; Non-fiction: asking those Beyoncé featuring Slim Glenn Greenwald, How unanswerable questions' Thug, Check On It & Would a Patriot Act?; Al (oil and sand on canvas, Irreplaceable; Airwave, Gore, An Inconvenient 47" x 35"); 'Blue Vase' (oil Sunspot; Black Pearl, Truth. on canvas on board, 29" x Bounty Island; Ferrin & 24"); 'Blue Vase 2' (oil on Low, Breeze; Cassie, Me TV / Media: canvas on board, 29" x & U; , America; Debuting: Hannah 24"); 'Central Asian Kanye West featuring Montana (Disney Landscape' (oil on canvas Lupe Fiasco, Touch The Channel); Heroes (NBC); on board, 27.5" x 24"); Sky; Adam Nickey, Perfect Life on Mars (BBC1); Hotel 'Crossing A Rain Slick Destiny; Sunblock, I’ll Be Babylon (BBC1); Charlie Street' (oil and sand on Ready & First Time (feat. Brooker's Screenwipe canvas, 32” x 24”); 'Dead Robin Beck); Muse, (BBC Four); Saxondale Letter Office' (mixed media Starlight; Michael Gray (BBC2). on board, 23.5" x 11.5"); feat. Shelly Poole, Ending: Arrested 'Domestic Bliss' (oil and Borderline; , Development; The West sand on canvas, 39" x Smile; Jojo, Too Little Too Wing; Charmed. 24"); 'Erica' (oil on canvas Late; Selu Vibra, Divine; on board, 27.5" x 24"); Mason vs Princess Fashion: 'First Impressions Of The Superstar, Perfect British Designer of the Magdeburg Sewage (Exceeder); Thomas Datt Year: Giles Deacon. System' (mixed media on & Robert Nickson, Tabla board, 23.5" x 11.5"); Mizma; Madonna, Sorry & Visual arts: 'Forced To Dance To The Jump; , Empire; Takashi Murakami, 727- Sound Of Howling Dogs' Orson, Happiness; Triniti, 727; Mark Alexander, The (oil on canvas on board, Rose On Water; Ashlee Blacker Gachet; Amy 47.5" x 35.5"); 'Her First Simpson, Invisible; Paris Wheeler, Harmony in My Punch' (oil on canvas, 50" Hilton, Nothing in this Head; Nathan Coley, x 50"); 'Hubris' (oil on World; Jessica Simpson, A There Will Be No Miracles board, 93.75" x 46"); Public Affair; Bodyrox feat Here; John Alexander, The 'Immoral Event' (mixed Luciana, Yeah Yeah; Parade. media on board, 47.5" x Shack, Cup Of Tea; Beck, Edvard Munch paintings 23.5"); 'It's Your Best Shot Cellphone’s Dead; Nerina The Scream and Madonna At Sanity Man' (oil on Pallot, Everybody’s Gone are recovered in a police canvas on board, 47.5" x to War; Hellogoodbye, raid in Oslo, Norway (Aug 35.5"); 'Johnny Seven Here (In Your Arms); 31). Moons And The Golden Junior Jack, Stupidisco. Exhibitions: All the Gate' (oil on canvas on LPs: , Rembrandts, board, 29" x 24"); Whatever People Say I Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. 'Lithopedion' (oil on canvas Am, That's What I'm Not; 39" x 24"); 'Omnivorously' Nelly Furtado, Loose; (oil on canvas, 40" x 30"); Rihanna, A Girl Like Me; 'Only Do Wrong When You Amy Winehouse, Back to Feel It's Right' (oil and Black; Christina Aguilera, pure pigment on canvas, Back to Basics; Snow 40" x 30"); 'Oppenheimer' Patrol, Eyes Open; (mixed media on board, Hannah Montana, Hannah 47.5" x 33.5"); 'Outlaws' Montana (soundtrack); Ne- (oil and pure pigment on Yo, In My Own Words; canvas, 40" x 30"); The Strokes, First 'Rasputitsa' (mixed media Impressions of Earth. on board, 23.5" x 11.5"); 'Shamus And The U-235' (oil on canvas on board, 47.5" x 35"); 'She Hid In A Huge Ornately Carved Wooden Cupboard' (mixed media on board, 50" x 50"); 'Silence Was His Only Hope' (oil and pure pigment on canvas, 40" x 30"); 'Surveillance' (oil and sand on canvas, 40" x 30"); 'The Absentee' (oil on canvas on board, 24" x 24.5"); 'The Advantages Of A Sudden Death' (mixed media on board, 47.5" x 35.5"); 'The Beheading Of Sophie Scholl' (mixed media on board, 47.5" x 23.5"); 'The Big Builders' (pure pigment and plaster on canvas on board, 47.5" x 35.5"); 'The Colour of Everything' (oil and sand on canvas, 37” x 24”); 'The Heat Death Of The Universe' (mixed media on board, 23.5" x 11.5"); 'The White Rose' (mixed media on board, 47.5" x 23.5"); 'Through Paul Pena' (oil on canvas on board, 24" x 20.5"); 'Vincent' (oil on canvas on board, 29" x 24"); 'When Everything Else Is Gone' (mixed media on board, 47.5" x 23.5"); '404' (mixed media on board, 12" x 12");‘#462’ (oil and multimedia on postcard, RCA postcard series).

January January 2 Ian Brown, Southbound 7 Charles Kennedy Festival, Perth, Australia. resigns as leader of the 4 Ian Brown, Brisbane Liberal Democrats, two Tivoli, Australia. days after admitting to a 5 Ian Brown, The Metro, drink problem. Sydney, Australia. 8 Ian Brown, The Forum, Melbourne, Australia. February February February 10 Ian Brown, Braehead 22 The 1 billionth song is 7 An Egyptian passenger Arena, Scotland. purchased from the Apple ferry carrying more than 11 Ian Brown, Aberdeen iTunes Store. 1,400 people sinks in the AECC, Scotland. Red Sea off the Saudi 13 Ian Brown, Glenrothes coast. Hall, Scotland. 22 Over £53.1 million is 14 Ian Brown, Newcastle stolen during the Securitas Academy, England. depot robbery, the largest 15 Ian Brown, Koko Club ever cash robbery in the (ShockWaves NME UK. Awards 2006), London, England. 18 Ian Brown, Bangkok 100 Rock Festival, Lakeside, Muangthong Thani, Bangkok, Thailand. March 11 Slobodan Milošević is found dead in his cell in the UN war crimes tribunal's detention centre, located in the Scheveningen section of The Hague. 22 ETA declares a permanent ceasefire in their campaign for Basque independence from Spain. April April 16 Ian Brown, Chibuku 5 A swan with Avian Flu is Shake Shake Easter Party, discovered in Cellardyke Wolstenholme Square, in Fife, Scotland (the first Liverpool, England. case in the UK). 28 Ian Brown, Carling 24, 9 Israeli Prime Minister Carling Academy Islington, Ariel Sharon is removed London, England. from office after four 30 Ian Brown, Heineken months in a coma. Green Energy Festival, 10 Romano Prodi narrowly Dublin Castle, Dublin, defeats Silvio Berlusconi Republic of Ireland. in the Italian parliamentary elections. 19 Han Myeong Sook becomes the first female Prime Minister of South Korea. May May 27 Ian Brown, HiFi Festival 13 Liverpool defeat West (North), Matfen Estate, Ham on penalties in the near Newcastle Upon 2006 FA Cup Final Tyne, England. following a 3-3 draw (after 28 Ian Brown, HiFi Festival extra time). (South), Matterley Bowl, 27 A 6.3 magnitude Winchester, Hampshire, earthquake strikes central England. Java in Indonesia, killing June more than 6,000, injuring 5 Primal Scream, Riot City at least 36,000 and Blues. leaving some 1.5 million people homeless. June 3 Montenegro declares independence. 5 The state union of and Montenegro is dissolved, leaving Serbia as the successor state. 6 Somali Islamists seize control of Somalia's capital Mogadishu. 29 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The United States Supreme Court rules that the military commissions to be used to try some detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp are illegal. July July 7 dies of 9 Italy wins the 2006 FIFA complications from World Cup by beating diabetes. France 5-3 on penalties. 30 Top of the Pops Zinedine Zidane is sent off broadcasts for the last for headbutting an time. opponent. 12 Outbreak of the Lebanon War. August August 29 Ian Brown, MTV EXIT 24 The International Sofia, Bulgaria. Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of 'dwarf planet' more than 70 years after its discovery. September 4 Australian wildlife expert Steve Irwin dies after being pierced in the chest by a stingray. October October 15 Ian Brown, Rockit 2 Amish school shooting, Festival, Victoria Park, Pennsylvania. Hong Kong. 9 North Korea claims to have conducted its first ever nuclear test. 10 Google buys YouTube for USD$1.65 billion. November November 18 Ian Brown, Club Ciudad 1 The Stardust Resort & de Buenos Aires, Buenos Casino closes after 48 Aires, Argentina. years of business in Las 19 Ian Brown, San Carlos, Vegas. Apoquindo, Santiago, 5 Former Iraqi President Chile. Saddam Hussein and two of his senior allies are sentenced to death by hanging after an Iraqi court finds them guilty of crimes against humanity. 8 U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigns. 17 Sony launches its next- generation console, the PlayStation 3, in . 19 Nintendo launches its next-generation console, the Wii, in North America. 24 Michael Stone is arrested for breaking into the parliament buildings at Stormont while armed. December 26 Australian cricket spinner Shane Warne claims his 700th test wicket in the fifth Ashes test. Australia go on to achieve a 5-0 whitewash over England to reclaim the Ashes. 30 Saddam Hussein, former Iraq president, is executed in Baghdad.

2007

Art created by John 45s: Avril Lavigne, Cinema: Squire in this year: Girlfriend; Rihanna, High School Musical 2; 'Arc Light' (oil on canvas, Umbrella & Don't Stop the Pirates of the Caribbean: 20" x 16"); 'Bed Or Mutual Music; Basshunter, Now At World's End; Harry Unease' (oil on canvas); You’re Gone; Bass Potter and the Order of the 'Burning powder' (oil on Agents, Black Winter; Phoenix; Spider-Man 3; canvas, 20" x 16"); Leona Lewis, Bleeding No Country for Old Men; ‘Carbon Monoxide’ Love; The Killers, Read Shrek the Third; The (encaustic, wool and silk My Mind; Cold Blue & Del Simpsons Movie; There on canvas, 20” x 16”); Mar, 11 Days; Justin Will Be Blood; 300. 'Charnel' (oil on canvas, Timberlake, What Goes d. (Jul 20" x 10"); 'Closer Still' (oil Around...Comes Around; 30); Deborah Kerr (Oct and sand on canvas); Gwen Stefani feat Akon, 16). 'Compulsion' (pencil, Escape; paper, oil and wax on Britney Spears, Gimme Fiction: hessian, 20" x 16"); More & Piece of Me; Don DeLillo, Falling Man; ‘Converse’ (encaustic, Michael Dow, Ascent; Denis Johnson, Tree of wool, silk and paper on feat. Amy Smoke; Alan Bennett, The hessian, 30” x 40”); Winehouse, Valerie; Uncommon Reader; Ian 'Copper Slag' (oil and wax Rihanna feat. Ne-Yo, Hate McEwan, On Chesil on canvas, 10" x 8"); That I Love You; Jojo, Beach. 'Crashing Dreams' (pencil, Anything; Public Enemy, paper, oil and wax on Harder Than You Think; Non-fiction: hessian, 20" x 16"); DJ Shah feat. Adrina Russell Brand, My Booky 'Cuerno de Chivo' (glass, Thorpe, Who Will Find Me; Wook; Naomi Klein, The 12" x 8"); 'Devotion' (oil , Shock Doctrine; David and sand on canvas, 47” x Untouched; deadmau5, Halberstam, The Coldest 36”); 'Dilate' Not Exactly; Filo & Peri, Winter: America and the (encaustic, wool and silk Anthem; FKN, Why (Aly & Korean War. on hessian, 20” x 16”); Fila Remix); Thomas 'Draw and Separate' (oil Bronzwaer, Resound; Lost TV / Media: and wax on canvas, 96" x Witness vs Sassot, Debuting: Skins (E4); 72"); 'Dzonot' (wax and oil Whatever; Deems, Tears Britain’s Got Talent (ITV). on canvas, 20" x 16"); of Hope; Syna, Do You Ending: The Sopranos; 'Empire' (oil and wax on Feel? (Lume Remix); Kelly Grandstand. hessian, 30" x 40"); 'False Rowland feat. Eve, Like d. Magnús Magnússon standard' (paper and wax This; Paul McCartney, (Jan 7), on hessian, 10" x 8"); Ever Present Past; (Oct 1). 'Gross Motor Skills' (oil Twenty4-7, Fly Out; The and wax on Hessian, 47.5" Go! Team, Doing It Right; Fashion: x 35.5"); 'Islamic Ceramic' Super Mal ft Luciana, Leggings rose in popularity (oil on canvas, 20" x 16"); Bigger Than Big. in 2007 after introduction 'Jesse Vann' (oil and wax LPs: MGMT, Oracular by brands such as on canvas, 20" x 48"); Spectacular; Linkin Park, American Apparel. In 'Jesus and Mary' (oil and Minutes To Midnight; 2007, ballet flats became wax on canvas, 70" x 54"); Burial, Untrue; , popular again, and the 'Love Story The Shock Value; Rihanna, toes of many women's Dependants At War' (oil on Good Girl Gone Bad; The shoes became rounded, canvas); 'Marks with Red' National, Boxer; Avril rivalling, but not entirely (oil and wax on canvas, Lavigne, The Best Damn replacing, the pointed-toed 10" x 8"); 'Mist and rain' Thing; Radiohead, In stiletto-heeled shoe. (paper, oil and wax on Rainbows; Fergie, The British Designer of the canvas, 10" x 8"); 'Music Dutchess; Mika, Life In Year: Stella McCartney. and flowers' (oil on Cartoon Motion. d. Liz Claiborne (Jun 27). canvas, 12" x 10"); 'M105' (oil on canvas, 20" x 16"); Visual arts: 'Nocturnal Plumage' (oil Damien Hirst, For the Love and wax on canvas, 20" x of God. 16"); 'No Recommendation Mark Wallinger’s ‘State for Clemency' (encaustic, Britain’ wins the Turner oil, wool, and paper on Prize. hessian, 40” x 30”); 'Off to war' (paper and wax on hessian, 10" x 8"); Pe'ahi (glass, 12" x 8"); 'Pilgrim' (encaustic, wool and silk on hessian, 39” x 24”); 'Plasticity, Evie' (oil and wax on canvas, 10" x 8"); 'Priapism' (oil and sand on canvas, 47” x 36”); 'Saturnalia' (paper, oil and wax on hessian, 20" x 16"); 'Shapes In The Dark' (oil on canvas); 'She Mauled, We Killed, I Buried' (bronze); 'Silver or Lead' (oil and sand on canvas, 47” x 80”); 'Skylight' (oil and sand on canvas, 40” x 30”); 'Sloth' (pencil, paper and wax on hessian, 20" x 16"); 'The martinet' (pencil, paper, oil and wax on hessian, 20" x 16"); 'The pig faced lady' (paper and wax on hessian, 10" x 8"); 'This Is Where I Came In'; 'Tim Page's whore sold me a camera' (paper, wax and oil on canvas, 10" x 8"); 'Two Rectangles' (oil and wax on canvas, 10" x 8"); 'Unknown' (oil on canvas); 'Winter Landscape' (encaustic, wool and silk on hessian, 30” x 40”); 'Wrist' (encaustic and wool on hessian, 30” x 40”); 'Year of the Pig' (oil and sand on canvas, 71" x 48"); 'You're so easily amused' (paper, pencil and wax on hessian, 10" x 8"); '19mm Flow' (glass, 50" x 26"); '2007 Ok' (oil and wax on Hessian, 40" x 30"); '#728' (pencil on postcard, RCA postcard series); '#1442' (pencil on postcard, RCA postcard series); '#1834' (pencil on postcard, RCA postcard series).

January 20 is inundated with thousands of complaints concerning the Celebrity Big Brother 2007 racism controversy. February February 21 Ian Brown, Paragraf 78 13 North Korea agrees to Premier Aftershow, shut down its nuclear Russia. facilities in Yongbyon by 23 Ian Brown, Paragraf 78 14th April, as a first step Fest, B1 Maximum, towards complete Russia. denuclearization, in return for economic aid. March 30 Ian Brown, Versus Cancer Event, Arena, Manchester, England. May 3 Madeleine McCann is abducted in Portugal. June June 26 The Spice Girls 27 Tony Blair steps down announce their reunion. as UK Prime Minister and is succeeded by Gordon Brown. 30 An attack by suicide bombers on Glasgow International Airport ends in failure. July July July 4 - 28 Exhibition of John 7 , a worldwide 1 Smoking in public and Squire's artwork: series of concerts to work places is banned in Smithfield Gallery, initiate action against England. London, England. ‘global warming’. August 3 17-month old boy Peter Connelly, 'Baby P', dies in London after suffering more than 50 injuries over an eight-month period, during which he was repeatedly seen by Haringey Children's services and NHS health professionals. September 6 - 4th October Exhibition of John Squire's artwork: Dazed and Confused Gallery, London, England. Ian Brown, The World Is Yours. 8 Ian Brown, Jelen Pivo Live Festival, . 27 Ian Brown, Newcastle Academy. 28 Ian Brown, Hull City Hall. 29 Ian Brown, Sheffield Octagon. October 1 Ian Brown, Middlesbrough Town Hall. 2 Ian Brown, Lincoln Engine Shed. 3 Ian Brown, Halifax Victoria Hall. 5 Ian Brown, Leeds University. 6 Ian Brown, Warrington Parr Hall. 8 Ian Brown, Dundee Caird Hall. 9 Ian Brown, Motherwell Civic Hall. 10 Ian Brown, Edinburgh Corn Exchange. 12 Ian Brown, Llandudno Venue Cymru Arena. 13 Ian Brown, Preston Guildhall. 15 Ian Brown, Derby Assembly Rooms. 16 Ian Brown, Nottingham Rock City. 18 Ian Brown, Reading Hexagon. 19 Ian Brown, Birmingham Academy. 20 Ian Brown, Cambridge Corn Exchange. 21 Ian Brown, Digital, Brighton. 22 Ian Brown, Southampton Guildhall. 23 Ian Brown, Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall. 25 Ian Brown, Bristol Academy. 26 Ian Brown, Liverpool University. November 24 Ian Brown, Middlesbrough. 26 Ian Brown, Carlisle. 27 Ian Brown, Oxford. 29 Ian Brown, London Brixton Academy. 30 Ian Brown, London Brixton Academy. December December December 1 Ian Brown, Doncaster 5 German composer 27 Former Pakistani prime Dome. Karlheinz Stockhausen minister Benazir Bhutto is 3 Ian Brown, Aberdeen dies. assassinated, and at least AECC. 20 others are killed by a 4 Ian Brown, bomb blast at an election Glasgow. rally in Rawalpindi. 5 Ian Brown, Wolverhampton Civic. 7 Ian Brown, Manchester Central (GMEX).

2008

Art created by John 45s: , Just Cinema: Squire in this year: Dance; Guru Josh Project, The Dark Knight; 'A Present From Mick' (oil Infinity 2008; Pussycat Cloverfield; Slumdog on board, 33" x 22"); 'A Dolls, When I Grow Up & I Millionaire; Taken; In Real Dilemma'; 'Autumn Hate This Part; Bruges; Role Models; You Verse' (Encaustic and oil Basshunter, All I Ever Don't Mess with the on canvas, 24" x 39"); Wanted; Britney Spears, Zohan; Man on Wire; 'Blue One'; 'Civilian' (18 Circus; Beyoncé, Single Vantage Point; 10,000 BC; gauge steel); 'Clothes Ladies (Put a Ring on It); The Spiderwick Shoes Hair Luggage' Rihanna, Take a Bow & Chronicles. (encaustic on board, 23.5" Disturbia; Taylor Swift, d. Heath Ledger (Jan 22); x 33"); 'Equilibrium'; 'Ex Love Story; Alex Paul Newman (Sep 26). 101'; 'Four Decades in M.O.R.P.H. & Woody van Exile' (Encaustic, wool and Eyden feat Michelle Citrin, Fiction: oil on canvas, 27" x 19"); Turn It On; Super8 & Tab, Suzanne Collins, The 'Free Them From Elektra; Armin van Buuren Hunger Games; Phillip Themselves' (Oil, pencil feat. Sharon den Adel, In Pullman, Once Upon a and oil pastel on Board, 27 And Out Of Love; Girls Time in the North; R.J. 3/4" x 33"); 'Green One'; Aloud, The Promise; Ellory, A Quiet Belief in 'Grey Imperfect Misty September, Cry For You; Angels; Jhumpa Lahiri, Dawn' (Encaustic and silk , I Kissed a Girl Unaccustomed Earth. on canvas, 24” x 39”); & Hot N Cold; Karen d. Arthur C. Clarke (Mar 'Have Faith' (Oil and oil Overton, Your Loving 19), Aleksandr pastel on Board, 33" x Arms (Jose Amnesia Solzhenitsyn (Aug 3). 28"); 'Heart of the Story' Sunrise Mix); Aly & Fila, (Oil, pencil and oil pastel Lost Language & Key Of Non-fiction: on Board, 33" x 78"); Life; Alex M.O.R.P.H., Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, 'Home From The Hill'; Walk the Edge (Alex One For The Road; Scott 'HO3' (Encaustic on M.O.R.P.H. b2b Woody Douglas, Quiet, Please: Board, 33" x 23 1/2"); van Eyden Remix); Alesha Dispatches from a Public 'Illusion of Permanence' Dixon, The Boy Does Librarian. (Encaustic, wool and oil on Nothing; Wiley, Wearing canvas, 24" x 15"); My Rolex; T.I. feat TV / Media: 'Imperfect System' Rihanna, Live Your Life; Debuting: Terminator: The (Encaustic and oil on DJ Tatana, Spring Breeze Sarah Connor Chronicles canvas, 24” x 39”); 'Inside (Martin Roth Summer (FOX); Ashes to Ashes The Minds'; 'Island' Style Remix); Madonna (BBC1). (Encaustic and silk on (feat. Ending: Grange Hill. canvas, 30” x 40”); and Timbaland), 4 'Izabella' (Encaustic and Minutes; DJ Shah feat. Fashion: silk on canvas, 30” x 40”); Adrina Thorpe (Aly & Fila Skinny jeans and thin- 'Look Away Bitch'; 'Loss of Remix), Back to You; strapped tops were both a World I Never Knew' Gabriella Cilmi, Sweet popular fashions (Oil, pencil and oil pastel About Me; Kylie, Wow; womenswear in 2008. In on Board, 23 1/2" x 33"); Alex M.O.R.P.H., late 2008, especially in 'Lucidity Day'; 'Man' (Lead Sunshine; Cerf ft. Mitiska Italy, the denim waistcoat Sheet, 6" x 8"); 'Mast- ft. Jaren, You Never Said was a popular feminine head' (Encaustic, silk and ( remix); Ryan fashion accessory. Slim-fit cotton on canvas, 24” x Davis, Wide Open Spaces; tweed jackets and skinny 39”); 'Miles and Machine The Last Shadow plaid lumberjack shirts Gun' (Encaustic, wool and Puppets, Standing Next to gained in popularity this waxed cotton on hessian, Me; , Two year. 30” x 40”); 'Mortality' Doors Down; Mungo, British Designer of the (Encaustic, wool and Summer Blush; Kelly Year: Luella Bartley. cotton on canvas, 10” x Rowland, Work; Will d. Yves Saint Laurent (Jun 8”); 'Multiple Marks' Holland feat. Yana Kay - 1). (Encaustic, wool, silk, Tears In The Rain (Alex cotton and oil on canvas, M.O.R.P.H. b2b Woody Visual arts: 39" x 24"); 'No Intimacy'; van Eyden Remix); Santoz The Cans Festival, an 'No Longer Did We meets Pedro del Mar, urban art festival Worship'; 'On Off' Seagulls (Original Mix); organised by Banksy (3 - 5 (Encaustic and wool on Bbp, Candy Floss; May). 39 artists from canvas, 10” x 8”); 'Out To Scooter, Jumping All Over around the world are The Suburbs'; 'Over a The World; Robyn, Who’s invited to exhibit their Lake' (Oil, pencil and oil That Girl; Sonny J, works in an abandoned pastel on Board, 33" x 52 Handsfree; Utah Saints, tunnel near Leake Street, 1/2"); 'Perhaps You Will Something Good '08. in South East London. Find There What You LPs: Lady Gaga, The Thought Lost' (Encaustic, Fame; , Only wool, silk, cotton & oil on by the Night; Pussycat canvas, 99" x 61"); Dolls, Doll Domination; 'Polaroids'; 'Salute' (Oil, Sigur Rós, Með suð í pencil and pastel on eyrum við spilum Board, 33" x 52 1/2"); endalaust; Sarah 'Seascape' (Oil, pencil and Brightman, Symphony; oil pastel on Board, 33" x Duffy, ; Mariah 78"); 'Self Interest and Carey, E=MC²; Oasis, Dig Technology' (Encaustic, Out Your Soul; Coldplay, wool and silk on hessian, Viva la Vida or Death and 30” x 40”); 'Sentence' (Oil, All His Friends; Harold pencil and oil pastel on Budd & Clive Wright , A Board, 24" x 33"); 'Shine Song For Lost Blossoms; Darkly' (Oil, pencil and oil Pop Levi, Never Never pastel on Board, 12" x Love. 16"); 'Signs' (Encaustic, wool, silk, cotton and oil on hessian, 40" x 30"); 'Solitary Path' (Oil, pencil and pastel on board, 11 3/4" x 16"); 'Something Like Hatred' (Oil, pencil and pastel on Board, 21 3/4" x 33"); 'The Dinner Party' (Oil, pencil and oil pastel on Board, 25 1/2" x 33"); 'The Decadent Surface' (Encaustic, oil and wool on canvas, 16" x 20"); 'The Pattern Was Set And The World Divided'; 'The Power to Destroy Governments' (Oil, pencil and oil pastel on Board, 33" x 78"); 'The Problem of Innocence, Learning, Melancholy and age' (Encaustic, wool and oil on canvas, 24” x 15”); 'The Road to Serfdom' (Oil, pencil and oil pastel on Board, 33" x 24"); 'Three Figures' (Encaustic, wool and silk on hessian, 20” x 16”); 'Transportation' (18 gauge Steel, 8" x 17"); 'Truism' (Lead Sheet on Board, 16" x 14"); 'Under Fire' (Encaustic, wool and silk on hessian, 30” x 40”); 'Unknown 1'; 'Unknown 2'; 'Unknown 3'; 'Unknown 4'; 'Unknown 5'; 'Unknown 6'; 'Unknown 7'; 'Unknown 8'; 'Unknown 9'; 'Untitled' (Encaustic, wool, silk, cotton and oil on canvas, 39" x 24"); 'Untitled' (oil, ink and pencil on board, 33" x 22"); 'Valley Floor' (Oil, pencil and pastel on Board, 12" x 16"); 'Very Large Turner'; 'Voyage' (Encaustic, wool and waxed cotton on hessian, 20” x 16”); 'White Epiphany' (Encaustic, wool, silk, cotton and oil canvas, 16" x 20"); ‘Woman' (Lead Sheet, 16" x 12"); 'Written in Water' (Encaustic, wool, silk and oil on canvas, 27" x 19"); '1234' (Lead Sheet, 7" x 13" x 10"); ‘1/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘2/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘3/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘4/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘5/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘6/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘7/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘8/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘9/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘10/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘11/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘12/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘13/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘14/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘15/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘16/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘17/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘18/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘19/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘20/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘21/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘22/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘23/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘24/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); ‘25/25’ (hand finished Linocut print, 30cm x 23cm); '#1099' (hand finished Linocut postcard print, RCA postcard series); '#2542' (hand finished Linocut postcard print, RCA postcard series).

January 17 Former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer passes away. February 17 Kosovo formally declares independence from Serbia. 18 The British government decides to introduce emergency legislation to temporarily nationalize Northern Rock. 19 Fidel Castro announces his resignation as President of Cuba, to be effective on February 24. March March 4 Ian Brown, Osaka Big 2 In the Russian Cat, Japan. presidential election, 6 Ian Brown, Toyko O- Dmitry Medvedev is East, Japan. elected President of 6th March - 4th April Russia with approximately Exhibition of John Squire's 70% of the vote. artwork ('Re-Engineered 14 Demonstrations by Garments'): Signal Tibetan separatists turn Gallery, Curtain Road, violent as rioters target London, England. government and Han 9 Ian Brown, Playground Chinese-owned buildings. Weekend Festival, Sydney, Australia. 11 Ian Brown, The Hi Fi, Melbourne, Australia. 12 Ian Brown, The Gov, Adelaide, Australia. 15 Ian Brown, West Coast Blues & Roots, Perth, Australia. 17 Ian Brown, Tivoli, Brisbane, Australia. 19 Ian Brown, Metro Theatre, Sydney, Australia. 20 Ian Brown, East Coast Blues & Roots Festival, Byron Bay, Sydney, Australia. 22 Ian Brown, Bluesfest, Whitianga, New Zealand. April April 11 Ian Brown, JOY, 8 Karen Matthews, mother Madrid, Spain. of Shannon Matthews, is 12 Ian Brown, charged with child neglect Razzmatazz, Barcelona, and perverting the course Spain. of justice. 14 Ian Brown, Musicdrome, Milan, Italy. 15 Ian Brown, Atomic Cafe, Munich, Germany. 16 Ian Brown, Rohstofflager, Zurich, Switzerland. 18 Ian Brown, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland. 19 Ian Brown, Bataclan, Paris, France. 20 Ian Brown, VK Club, Brussels, Belgium. May May 12 Ian Brown, Gloria, 3 Tens of thousands of Cologne, Germany. people in Myanmar are 13 Ian Brown, Gruenspan, killed by Cyclone Nargis, Hamburg, Germany. the deadliest natural 14 Ian Brown, Columbia disaster since the Boxing Club, Berlin, Germany. Day Tsunami in 2004. 31 Ian Brown, Hangar 11, 12 Thousands are killed in Tel Aviv, Israel. central China in an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale. 21 Manchester United defeat Chelsea 6-5 on penalties in the Champions League Final, held in Moscow. June June June 14 Ian Brown, Newport, 20 My Bloody Valentine 3 Barack Obama becomes Isle of Wight, England. play their first reunion gig the presumptive nominee at the Roundhouse, of the Democratic Party. London. 12 Ireland votes to reject the Treaty of Lisbon, in the only referendum to be held by a European Union member state on the treaty. 27 President Robert Mugabe is re-elected with 85.5% of the vote in the second round of the controversial Zimbabwean presidential election. July 12 Ian Brown, T In The Park, Scotland. 13 Ian Brown, Festival, Republic of Ireland. 21 Primal Scream, . 26 Ian Brown, Fuji Rock Festival, Japan. August August 14 Ian Brown, 8 The Olympic Games 2008, Hasselt, Belgum. opening ceremony takes 16 Ian Brown, V2008, place in Beijing. Hylands Park, England. 17 Ian Brown, V2008, Weston Park, England. 22 Ian Brown, O2 Academy, Newcastle. 24 Ian Brown, , England. 6th October - 2nd October November Exhibition of 3 Global financial crisis: John Squire's artwork: U.S. President George W. SW1 Gallery, 12 Cardinal Bush signs the revised Walk, Roof Garden Level, Emergency Economic Cardinal Place, Victoria, Stabilization Act into law, London, England. creating a 700 billion dollar Treasury fund to purchase failing bank assets. 16 Russell Brand and record a Radio 2 show, controversially making prank phone calls to Andrew Sachs. November November 12 Mitch Mitchell, 4 Barack Obama is drummer in the Jimi elected the 44th President Hendrix Experience, dies. of the United States. 26 The attacks by Islamic terrorists from Pakistan claim at least 173 lives, wounding at least 308.

2009

Art created by John 45s: Lady Gaga, Poker Cinema: Squire in this year: Face; Black Eyed Peas, I The Hangover; Avatar; Up; 'Against The Sky' (Oil on Gotta Feeling & Meet Me (500) Days of Summer; Canvas, 30" x 40"); Halfway; , I’m Michael Jackson's This Is 'Bathers'; 'Capital' (Oil on Not Alone; Cheryl Cole, It; Sherlock Holmes; 2012; Canvas, 24" x 33"); 'Child' Fight For This Love; JLS, The Twilight Saga: New (Encaustic on Board, 16" x Everybody in Love; Justin Moon; Watchmen; 12"); Bieber, One Time; Alicia Terminator Salvation; The 'Clothes Shoes Hair Keys, Try Sleeping with a Damned United; Luggage' (Encaustic on Broken Heart; David Paranormal Activity; Board, 23 1/2" x 33"); Guetta feat. Kelly Notorious. 'Counter' (Oil on Canvas, Rowland, When Love d. John Hughes (Aug 6), 16" x 20"); 'Dead Takes Over; Pussycat Patrick Swayze (Sep 14), Metaphor' (Steel Plate); Dolls (with A.R. Rahman), Brittany Murphy (Dec 20). ‘Difference; 'Divided Jai Ho! (You Are My Composition' (oil on Destiny); , Fiction: scorched canvas, 34" x Fireflies; Tinchy Stryder Dan Brown, The Lost 34"); 'Diplomatic Immunity' feat. Amelle, Never Leave Symbol; Mark R. Levin, (scorched canvas, 24" x You; Shakira, She Wolf; Liberty and Tyranny; Steve 34"); 'Don't Talk To , Party in the Harvey, Act Like a Lady, Strangers' (oil on canvas, U.S.A.; Taylor Swift, You Think Like a Man; 24" x 34"); 'Eat' (Rust and Belong With Me; The Charlaine Harris, Dead Crystallized Salt on Saturdays, Issues & Just and Gone. Canvas, 20" x 16"); 'Frame Can’t Get Enough; Yamin View' (Oil on Canvas, 72" feat. Marcie, Forward Non-fiction: x 72"); ‘Frederick’ (oil on Motion (tyDi Remix); Sarah Palin, Going Rogue; canvas, 24" x 34"); & Andy David Grann, The Lost 'Freeload' (ink and oil on Moor feat. Meighan City of Z; Michael J. Fox, paper, 27.5" x 39.25"); Nealon, Faces; Beyoncé, Always Looking Up; 'Gift' (16 gauge steel, 19" x Sweet Dreams; Foo Edward M. Kennedy, True 15" x 2"); 'Glasses Fighters, Wheels; Compass. Crutches Brushes Cascada, Evacuate the Prostheses' (Lead Sheet, Dancefloor; Ke$ha, TiK TV / Media: 10" x 7"); 'Gravity' ToK; Pixie Lott, Mama Do Debuting: Parks and (scorched canvas, 34" x (Uh Oh, Uh Oh) & Boys Recreation (NBC); 34"); 'Hanging Panel' (Oil and Girls; Eminem, Celebrity Big Brother 6 on Canvas, 72" x 72"); Beautiful; Beyoncé feat. (Channel 4); Modern 'Heat, Light' (scorched Lady Gaga, Video Phone; Family (NBC); Community canvas, 72" x 72"); ‘Jet’; Katy Perry, Waking Up in (NBC); Moving On 'Ladder' (Encaustic on Vegas; Britney Spears, 3; (BBC1); Move Like Board, 16" x 12"); 'Mass , Kinetik; Neptune Michael Jackson (BBC Exodus' (Oil on Canvas, Project, Aztec; Luke Terry, Three). 16" x 20"); 'Milestones' (ink Fable; Lily Allen, The Fear; Ending: Katie & Peter. and oil on paper, 39.25" x Vast Vision feat. Fisher, d. Walter Cronkite (Jul 17). 27.5"); 'Modern Painters Everything (Aly & Fila Interview'; 'Motto' (oil on Remix); FKN feat. Jahala, Fashion: canvas, 34" x 34"); Still Time (Aly & Fila Hipster fashion. Chic 'Nativity Scene'; 'Partition' Remix); Paul van Dyk, Wolf, a dark, sumptuous, (oil on canvas, 20" x 16"); Nothing But You (Super8 edgy fashion movement 'Plain View' (oil on & Tab Remix); Alphabeat, came into play during the scorched canvas, 34" x The Spell; Noisettes, Fall 2009 womenswear 34"); ‘Potential’; 'Rotation' Never Forget You; John season. In Europe, in the (gesso on scorched O'Callaghan feat. Lo-Fi autumn and winter of canvas, 24" x 34"); Sugar, Never Fade Away 2009, stiletto-heeled shoes 'Shadow Box' (16 Gauge ( mix); and ankle boots with cone- Steel, 19 1/2" x 15 1/2" x Madonna, Celebration; shaped heels became very 2"); 'Sit' (oil on scorched Little Boots, Remedy; popular. Hairstyles that canvas, 24" x 34"); Sleep' Steve Allen, So Far From are longer in the front and (Rust and Crystallized Salt Me. short in the back became on Canvas, 20" x 16"); LPs: Lady Gaga, The popular on women this 'Statement' (18 gauge Fame Monster; Jay-Z, The year, and the side-parted steel); 'Suspended By The Blueprint 3; Arctic hairstyle made a return in Feet And Beaten With Monkeys, Humbug; The mid-late 2009. The bob Hammers' (oil on canvas, Pains of Being Pure at hairstyle became popular. 24" x 34"); ‘Swivel’; Heart, The Pains of Being British Designer of the 'Telescope' (16 Gauge Pure at Heart; ; xx; Year: Christopher Bailey. steel, 19 1/2" x 15 1/2" x , 2"); 'Textile' (scorched Merriweather Post Visual arts: canvas, 34" x 34"); 'To Pavilion; Yeah Yeah Superflex, Flooded Agnes Martin' (Pencil on Yeahs, It's Blitz ! McDonalds; Petko Gesso, 72" x 72"); Dourmana, Post Global 'Unknown 1' (steel plate); Warming Survival Kit; 'Unknown 2' (steel plate); Heather & Ivan Morison, 'Unknown 3' (steel plate); The Shape of Things To 'Unknown 4' (steel plate); Come: The Black Cloud. 'Unknown 5' (steel plate); 'Unknown 6' (steel plate); 'Unknown 7'; 'Unknown 8'; 'Unknown 9'; 'Unknown 10'; 'Unknown 11'; 'Unknown 12'; 'Unknown 13'; 'Unknown 14'; 'Unknown 15'; 'Unknown 16'; 'Unknown 17'; 'Unknown 18'; 'Unknown 19'; 'Unknown 20'; 'Unknown 21'; 'Unknown 22'; 'Untitled' (steel plate); 'Untitled 1' (ink and oil on paper, 27.5" x 39.25"); 'Untitled 2' (ink and oil on paper, 27.5" x 39.25"); 'Untitled 3' (ink and oil on paper, 27.5" x 39.25"); 'Untitled 4' (ink and oil on paper, 39.25" x 27.5"); 'Untitled 5' (ink and oil on paper, 39.25" x 27.5"); 'Untitled 6' (ink and oil on paper, 27.5" x 39.25"); 'Untitled 7' (ink and oil on paper, 39.25" x 27.5"); 'Untitled 8' (ink and oil on paper, 39.25" x 27.5"); 'Untitled 9' (ink and oil on paper, 27.5" x 39.25"); 'Voodoo' (ink and oil on paper, 27.5" x 39.25"); 'War Child: Heroes'; 'Wedding Rings' (Encaustic on Board, 16" x 12"); 'You'll Let it Go Eventually' (Scorched Canvas, 72" x 96"); '10 Ounce Prop' (18 gauge Steel, 8" x 8" x 5"); '#1036' (RCA postcard series); '90 Degrees' (Lead Sheet, 4" x 8 1/2" x 5 1/2").

January 15 'Miracle on the Hudson' as US Airways Flight 1549 from New York City safely ditches in the icy waters of the Hudson River, after a flock of birds knocked out both of its engines. 20 Barack Obama is sworn in as 44th U.S. President. February February 5 Ian Brown, Tokyo, 10 Rihanna postpones her Japan. Malaysian concert in The 6 Ian Brown, Boogaloo, Good Girl Gone Bad Tour Zagreb, Croatia. amid reports that she accused her boyfriend Chris Brown of assault. March 3 Britney Spears launches her ‘Circus’ world tour in New Orleans. April April 11 Susan Boyle's version 27 An Air Force One back- of 'I Dreamed a Dream' up plane and an F-16 (from Les Miserables) on fighter jet flies low over Britain's Got Talent Manhattan, New York in a becomes a worldwide photo stunt organised by sensation, as it is seen the Defense Department. over 200 million times on There was no warning YouTube and other video about the event and those outlets. on the ground feared another September 11th style attack. June June 25 Michael Jackson dies, 12 Iranian election aged 50, after going into protests begin. cardiac arrest. July 7th July - 5th September Exhibition of John Squire's artwork: Gallery Oldham, Oldham Cultural Quarter, Greaves Street, Oldham, England. August August August 25 Ian Brown, Wulfrun 28 After another fight with 5 Euna Lee and Laura Hall, Wolverhampton, his brother Liam, Noel Ling are released after England. Gallagher leaves Oasis. being held for 4 months in 26 Ian Brown, O2 North Korea and Academy, Oxford, sentenced to 12 years England. hard labour. Former 28 Ian Brown, Reading President Bill Clinton met Festival, England. Kim Jong-il to negotiate 30 Ian Brown, Leeds their release. Festival, England. 20 Jamaica's Usain Bolt wins the gold medal in the men's 200m final during the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany. Bolt set a new world record of 19.19 seconds, four days after smashing the 100m record. 29 Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped aged 11 in 1991 by Phillip Garrido, is found alive. Dugard spent 18 years held captive in tents in his backyard in South Lake Tahoe, California, bearing him two children. September September 28 Ian Brown, The 13 Kanye West hijacks Garage, London, England. Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for winning Best Female Video during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. October October 1 Ian Brown, Madinat 15 Falcon Heene, six, set Arena, Dubai, U.A.E. off a massive search operation and media frenzy after it was reported he was inside a homemade helium balloon that broke loose and drifted for hours, thousands of feet above Colorado. Media outlets everywhere jump on the sensational 'balloon boy' bandwagon, but the whole event turned out to be a hoax by the boy's parents. November November 15th November - 6th 5 Army psychiatrist Major December Exhibition of Nidal Malik Hasan opens John Squire's artwork: fire at Fort Hood, Texas, Negative Afterimages, killing 13 and injuring 32. Tokyo Hipsters Club. 22 Ian Brown, St George's Market, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 23 Ian Brown, Olympia Theatre, Republic of Ireland. 24 Ian Brown, Olympia Theatre, Republic of Ireland. 26 Ian Brown, Royal Theatre, Mayo, Republic of Ireland. 27 Ian Brown, INEC- Gleneage Hotel, Killarney, Republic of Ireland. 29 Ian Brown, De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England. 30 Ian Brown, Cliffs Pavillon, Westcliff-On-Sea, England. December December December 1 Ian Brown, Regent 20 Rage Against the 19 FC Barcelona wins the Theatre, Ipswich, England. Machine takes the 2009 FIFA Club World 3 Ian Brown, O2 Academy, Christmas number one slot Cup, becoming the first Bournemouth, England. in the UK with Killing in the football team ever to win 4 Ian Brown, O2 Academy, Name, after a massive six out of six competitions Brixton, England. campaign. in a single calendar year. 5 Ian Brown, O2 Academy, Brixton, England. 7 Ian Brown, Corn Exchange, Cambridge, England. 8 Ian Brown, O2 Academy, Sheffield, England. 10 Ian Brown, O2 Academy, Leeds, England. 11 Ian Brown, O2 Academy, Leeds, England. 12 Ian Brown, Liverpool Uni, Liverpool, England. 14 Ian Brown, , Newcastle, England. 15 Ian Brown, HMV Picture House, Edinburgh, Scotland. 16 Ian Brown, O2 Academy, Glasgow, Scotland. 18 Ian Brown, O2 Academy, Birmingham, England. 19 Ian Brown, , Manchester, England. 23 Ian Brown, The Horn, St Albans, England.

2010

Art created by John 45s: B.o.B featuring Cinema: Squire in this year: Hayley Williams, Inception; The Social 'All Of You' (oil on canvas, Airplanes; Flo Rida feat. Network; Senna; The 34" x 24"); 'A Walk In The , Club Can't Fighter; Due Date; The Wood' (oil on paper, 39.5" Handle Me; Enrique Other Guys; Four Lions; x 27.75"); 'Blue In Green' Iglesias feat. Pitbull, I Like Tamara Drewe; The War (oil on canvas, 24" x 34"); It; Foster the People, You Don't See; Burlesque. 'Et Alors' (oil on canvas, Pumped Up Kicks; d. Jean Simmons (Jan 22), 34" x 25"); 'In A Silent will.i.am & feat. Dennis Hopper (May 29), Way' (oil on canvas, 34" x Cheryl Cole, Check It Out!; Tony Curtis (Sep 29), 24"); 'Iris' (oil on paper, 20" David Guetta feat. Norman Wisdom (Oct 4), x 16"); 'London Calling'; Rihanna, Who's That Leslie Nielsen (Nov 28). 'Nefertiti' (oil on canvas, Chick?; Martin Solveig 24" x 34"); 'So What' (oil feat. Dragonette, Hello; Fiction: on canvas, 34.5" x 25"); Far East Movement, Like a Jonathan Franzen, 'Untitled' (oil on paper, G6; Eminem feat. Lil Freedom; Jennifer Egan, A 39.5" x 27"); Vonetta A Wayne, No Love; Tinie Visit From the Goon (Liberty Fabrics, 100% Tempah, Pass Out; Katy Squad; David Grossman, cotton); Vonetta B (Liberty Perry feat. Snoop Dogg, To the End of the Land; Fabrics, 100% cotton); California Gurls; Rihanna, Peter Carey, Parrot and Vonetta C (Liberty Fabrics, Rude Boy; The Saturdays, Olivier in America. 100% cotton); Vonetta D Missing You & Higher; d. J. D. Salinger (Jan 27). (Liberty Fabrics, 100% feat. cotton). Pitbull, All Night Long; Non-fiction: Penguin Decades series: Pixie Lott, Gravity; Cheryl Pamela Geller with Robert 'A Month in the Country'; Cole, ; Alex Spencer, Post-American 'An Ice-Cream War'; M.O.R.P.H., Break The Presidency: The Obama 'Hawksmoor'; Light; The Pretty Reckless, Administration's War on 'Latecomers'; 'Paradise Miss Nothing; Alesha America; Michael Lewis, Postponed'. Dixon, Drummer Boy; The Big Short; Theodore Alexis Jordan, Happiness; Dalrymple, Spoilt Rotten: Reverse, Absolute Reality The Toxic Cult of ( Remix); Inna, Sun Is Sentimentality; Isabel Up; Diana Vickers, Once; Wilkerson, The Warmth of Ke$ha, Your Love Is My Other Suns; Stacy Schiff, Drug; Marcel Kenenberg, Cleopatra: A Life; Rebecca Heartbeat (Marcel Skloot, The Immortal Life Kenenberg Remix); of Henrietta Lacks. Gabriella Cilmi, On a Mission; Sugababes, Wear TV / Media: My Kiss; Brandon Flowers, Debuting: The Million Crossfire; FKN feat Pound Drop Live (Channel Jahala, Tonight (Take Me 4); Take Me Out (ITV). Away) (Mohamed Ragab Ending: Celebrity Big and Brave vocal mix). Brother; Scrubs; Heroes; LPs: Rihanna, Loud; 24; A Touch of Frost; The , Doo-Wops & Show; Friday Hooligans; Enrique Night with Jonathan Ross; Iglesias, Euphoria; Justin Last of the Summer Wine; Bieber, My World 2.0; The Bill; GMTV; Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday; Heartbeat. The National, High Violet; Eminem, Recovery; Ellie Fashion: Goulding, Lights. d. Alexander McQueen (Feb 11). January January 13 Ian Brown, Ancienne 3 Phil Taylor wins his Visual arts: Belgique, Brussels, fifteenth World Darts 'Nude, Green Leaves and Belgium. Championship. Bust', a 1932 painting by 14 Ian Brown, Le 12 An earthquake with a Pablo Picasso was sold at Trabendo, Paris, France. catastrophic magnitude Christie's for $106.5 15 Ian Brown, Den Atelier, 7.0 MMS in Haiti kills an million. Luxembourg. estimated 230,000 people, Exhibitions: Matisse, 16 Ian Brown, Mannheim, injures 300,000, and 'Radical Invention, 1913 - Germany. leaves 1 million homeless. 1917' at Moma, New York 18 Ian Brown, Zurich, 25 Ethiopian Airlines Flight City; Marina Abramovic, Switzerland. 409 crashes into the 'The Artist is Present' at 19 Ian Brown, Milan, Italy. Mediterranean Sea shortly Moma, New York City. 20 Ian Brown, Munich, after take-off from Beirut d. Ruth Kligman (Mar 1). Germany. Rafic Hariri International 21 Ian Brown, Vienna, Airport. All 90 people on- Austria. board are killed. 23 Ian Brown, Berlin, Germany. 24 Ian Brown, Hamburg, Germany. 25 Ian Brown, Copenhagen, Denmark. 27 Ian Brown, Oslo, Norway. 28 Ian Brown, Stockholm, Sweden. 29 Ian Brown, Malmo, Sweden. 31 Ian Brown, Amsterdam, Holland. February February 16 Ian Brown, Warsaw, 27 An 8.8-magnitude Poland. earthquake occurs in 18 Ian Brown, Helsinki, Chile, triggering a tsunami Finland. over the Pacific and killing 22 Ian Brown, Moscow, 497 people. Russia. 23 Ian Brown, St.Petersburg, Russia. 26 Ian Brown, Thessaloniki, Greece. 27 Ian Brown, Athens, Greece. March , Two Worlds Collide (EP). April April April Freebass, It's A Beautiful 8 Former 14 Volcanic ash from one Life. manager Malcolm of several eruptions 26th April - 29th October McLaren dies. beneath Eyjafjallajökull, an Exhibition of John Squire's ice cap in Iceland, begins artwork: Group Show to disrupt air traffic across Process, Burghley northern and western Sculpture Garden, Europe. Stamford, England. 20 The Deepwater Horizon oil platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers. The resulting oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline. May May 7th - 21st May 2 The Eurozone and the Exhibition of John Squire's International Monetary artwork (Structural Fund agree to a €110 Violence): Bar Lane billion bailout package for Studios, York, England. Greece. 9th May - 12th June 31 Nine activists are killed Exhibition of John Squire's in a clash with soldiers artwork: Gallery Thiele when Israeli Navy forces Mechanized, Galerie raid and capture a flotilla Thiele, Linz, Austria. of ships attempting to 19th May - 11th August break the Gaza blockade. Exhibition of John Squire's artwork (Apertures): The Square Gallery, Bristol, England. June 5 Ian Brown, . 7 Ian Brown, University Of Hertfordshire. 9 Ian Brown, The Empire, Middlesborough. 11 Ian Brown, Platts Field, Manchester. 12 Ian Brown, Rockness Festival, Inverness. 15 Ian Brown, . July July 10th July - 19th August 24 Snooker player Alex Exhibition of John Squire's Higgins dies. artwork (Nefertiti): 25 Wikileaks, an online Henderson Gallery, publisher of anonymous, Edinburgh (part of the covert, and classified Edinburgh Festival), material, leaks to the Scotland. public over 90,000 internal 9 Ian Brown, Pohoda reports about the United Festival, Trencin, Slovakia. States-led involvement in 10 Ian Brown, Belgium. the War in Afghanistan 17 Ian Brown, Benicassim from 2004 to 2010. Festival, Spain. 29 Heavy monsoon rains 25 Ian Brown, South begin to cause widespread Korea. flooding in the Khyber- 30 Ian Brown, Taiwan. Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Over 1,600 are killed, and more than one million are displaced by the floods. August 1 Ian Brown, Fuji Rock Festival, Japan. 5 Ian Brown, Sinagpore Festival. 6 Ian Brown, Jakarta, Indonesia. 7 Ian Brown, Hardrock Cafe, Bali, Indonesia. October October 18th October - 24th 13 Thirty-three miners November Exhibition of near Copiapó, Chile, John Squire's artwork: trapped 700 metres Gallery Thiele underground in a mining Mechanized, Galerie accident in San José Mine, Thiele, Linz, Austria. are brought back to the surface after surviving for a record 69 days. 25 An earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, kills over 400 people and leave hundreds missing. November 13 Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from her house arrest. 21 Eurozone countries agree to a rescue package for the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the country's financial crisis. 23 North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea. December 15 Ian Brown, Fibbers, York. 16 Ian Brown, Rock City, Nottingham. 17 Ian Brown, The Warehouse Project, Manchester. 18 Ian Brown, Manchester.

2011

Art created by John 45s: Chris Brown feat. Cinema: Squire in this year: Benny Benassi, Beautiful The Twilight Saga: 'Aileen Wuornos' (ink & oil People; Pitbull feat. Ne- Breaking Dawn - Part 1; on canvas, 90cm x 70cm); Yo, Afrojack & Nayer, Give Bobby Fischer Against 'Albert Einstein' (ink & oil Me Everything; Lady The World; Thor; Source on canvas, 70cm x 90cm); Gaga, The Edge of Glory; Code; Bridesmaids; Super 'Alison Steadman' (ink & feat. B.o.B., Price 8; Horrible Bosses; Paul; oil on canvas, 90cm x Tag; Nicki Minaj, Super Insidious; Mr. Popper's 70cm); 'Arnold Bass; LMFAO feat. Lauren Penguins. Schwarzenegger' (ink & oil Bennett and GoonRock, d. Jane Russell (Feb 28), on canvas, 90cm x 70cm); Party Rock Anthem; , (Mar 23). 'Cheryl Cole' (ink & oil on Levels; Rihanna, Cheers canvas, 90cm x 70cm); (Drink to That); Fiction: 'David Beckham' (ink & oil feat. Christina Aguilera, E. L. James, Fifty Shades on canvas, 90cm x 70cm); Moves Like Jagger; of Grey; Téa Obreht, The 'Elizabeth Peyton' (ink & Britney Spears, Till the Tiger's Wife. oil on canvas, 90cm x World Ends; David Guetta 70cm); 'Harold Shipman' feat. Flo Rida & Nicki Non-fiction: (ink & oil on canvas, 70cm Minaj, Where Them Girls Pamela Geller, Stop the x 90cm); 'Harry Houdini' At; feat. Islamization of America: A (ink & oil on canvas, 86cm Julie Thompson, Practical Guide to the x 86cm); Diamonds in the Sky; Aly Resistance. promotional design (oil on & Fila feat. Jwaydan, We canvas); 'Hedy Lamarr' Control the Sunlight; Matt TV / Media: (ink & oil on canvas, 70cm Darey feat. Kate Louise Debuting: Game of x 90cm); 'John F. Smith, See The Sun (Toby Thrones (HBO); World's Kennedy' (ink & oil on Hedges Remix); Alexandra Craziest Fools (BBC canvas, 183cm x 183cm); Stan, Mr. Saxobeat. Three). 'Josef Fritzl' (ink & oil on LPs: , 21; Lady Ending: Hannah Montana. canvas, 70cm x 90cm); Gaga, Born This Way; d. John Sullivan (Apr 23). 'Keira Knightley' (ink & oil , Up All on canvas, 90cm x 70cm); Night; Rihanna, Talk That Fashion: 'Lady Gaga' (ink & oil on Talk; The War on Drugs, The Perfecto motorcycle canvas, 90cm x 70cm); Slave Ambient; M83, Hurry jacket was popular among 'Lindsay Lohan' (ink & oil Up, We're Dreaming; Tinie both sexes in this year. on canvas, 90cm x 70cm); Tempah, Disc-Overy; 'Magda Goebbels' (ink & , Killer Visual arts: oil on canvas, 90cm x Love; , What In April, the Chinese artist 70cm); 'Phil Spector' (ink & Did You Expect from The Ai Weiwei is arrested and oil on canvas, 90cm x Vaccines ?; Avril Lavigne, detained and his studio 70cm); 'Richard Pryor' (ink Goodbye Lullaby. sealed off, by the & oil on canvas, 90cm x government of the Peoples 70cm); 'Rihanna' (ink & oil Republic of China, during on canvas, 70cm x 90cm); an apparent crackdown by 'Self Portrait' (ink & oil on the regime on activists and canvas, 90cm x 70cm); dissidents. The PRC '' (ink & oil government later states on canvas, 70cm x 90cm); that Weiwei is being held 'Study for Celebrity'; while investigated for 'Sugar Ray Leonard' (ink & economic crimes. oil on canvas, 70cm x d. Cy Twombly (Jul 5), 90cm); 'Tracey Emin' (ink Alex Steinweiss (Jul 17), & oil on canvas, 90cm x Lucian Freud (Jul 20). 70cm); 'Vivienne Westwood' (ink & oil on canvas, 90cm x 70cm); '' (ink & oil on canvas, 90cm x 70cm).

January January 30 Composer 4 The so-called ‘Arab dies. Spring’. Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi dies after setting himself on fire a month earlier, sparking anti-government protests in Tunisia and later other Arab nations. 11 Flooding and mudslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro kills 903 people. 14 The so-called ‘Arab Spring’. The Tunisian government falls after a month of increasingly violent protests. President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power. February 11 The so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns after widespread protests calling for his departure, leaving control of Egypt in the hands of the military until a general election can be held. March March 12th March - 11th May 11 A 9.1-magnitude Exhibition of John Squire's earthquake and artwork: Art Base, subsequent tsunami hit the Belgium. east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing. Tsunami warnings are issued in 50 countries and territories. Emergencies are declared at four nuclear power plants affected by the quake. 15 The so-called ‘Arab Spring’: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain declares a three-month state of emergency as troops from the Gulf Co- operation Council are sent to quell the civil unrest. 19 The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ and the Libyan civil war: In light of continuing attacks on Libyan rebels by forces in support of leader Muammar Gaddafi, military intervention authorized under UNSCR 1973 begins as French fighter jets make reconnaissance flights over Libya. April 29 An estimated two billion people watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at in London. May 1 U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American military operation in Pakistan. 26 Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladić, wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, is arrested in Serbia. June 12 The so-called ‘Arab June Spring’: Thousands of 18 Ian Brown, The Syrians flee to Turkey as Summer Ball, London. Syrian troops lay siege to Jisr ash-Shugur. July July July 16 Ian Brown, Sesimbra, 23 Amy Winehouse dies of 20 The United Nations Portugal. alcohol poisoning. declares a famine in southern Somalia, the first in over thirty years. 22 76 people are killed in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet government center in Oslo and a shooting at a political youth camp on the island of Utøya. 31 In Thailand 790 people are killed and over 12.8 million people are affected by severe flooding. The World Bank estimates damages at US$45 billion. The so-called ‘Arab Spring’: Arising from uncertainties associated with a clamp-down of the free press, there is believed to be at least 121 people killed in a Syrian Army tank raid on the town of Hama and over 150 people are reportedly killed across the country. August 4 Police shoot 29-year-old English man, Mark Duggan, which proves to be the catalyst for the England riots of 6th - 10th August. Beginning in , several London boroughs and districts of cities and towns across England suffer widespread rioting, looting and arson, with the most severe disturbances outside London occurring in Bristol and cities in the Midlands and North West. 5 NASA announces that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons. 20 - 28 The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ and the Libyan civil war: In the Battle of Tripoli, Libyan rebels take control of the nation's capital, effectively overthrowing the government of Muammar Gaddafi. September September 10 Ian Brown, Bucharest, 17 Occupy Wall Street Romania. protests begin in the United States. This develops into the Occupy movement which spreads to 82 countries by October. October October 18 The Stone Roses 4 Mogadishu bombing: announce their reunion at 100 people are killed in a London's Soho Hotel. car bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu. 20 The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ and the Libyan civil war: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with National Transitional Council forces taking control of the city, and ending the war. Basque separatist militant organisation ETA declares an end to its 43-year campaign of political violence, which has killed over 800 people since 1968. 23 A magnitude 7.2 Mw earthquake jolted eastern Turkey near the city of Van, killing 604 people, and damaging about 2,200 buildings. 27 After an emergency meeting in Brussels, the European Union announced an agreement to tackle the European sovereign debt crisis which includes a writedown of 50% of Greek bonds, a recapitalisation of European banks and an increase of the bailout fund of the European Financial Stability Facility totalling to €1 trillion. December December 15 The United States 2 John Squire and Ian formally declares an end Brown perform on stage to the Iraq War. together for the first time 16 Tropical Storm Washi since John's last Roses causes 1,257 flash flood gig at Wembley Arena in fatalities in the December 1995. The duo with 85 people officially perform Elizabeth My listed as missing. Dear, and were joined on 17 Kim Jong-il, Supreme stage by Mick Jones, Pete Leader of the Democratic Wylie and Peter Hooton People’s Republic of for renditions of Korea, dies. Bankrobber and 18 Václav Havel, Czech Armagideon Time. The playwright, 10th President event at Manchester Ritz of Czechoslovakia and 1st formed part of the Justice President of the Czech Tonight tour, in aid of the Republic, dies. Hillsborough Justice Campaign.

2012

Art created by John 45s: PSY, Gangnam Cinema: Squire in this year: Style; Nicki Minaj, Les Misérables; The N/K Starships; Swedish House Avengers; The Dark Mafia feat. John Martin, Knight Rises; The Hunger Don't You Worry Child; Games; Ice Age: , Call Me Continental Drift; Looper; Maybe; Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Prometheus. Khalifa, Payphone; Cheryl, Call My Name; One Fiction: Direction, What Makes Irvine Welsh, Skagboys. You Beautiful; Calvin Harris feat. Florence Non-fiction: Welch, Sweet Nothing; John C. Maxwell, David Guetta feat. , Sometimes You Win, Titanium; Katy Perry, Wide Sometimes You Learn; Awake; Tulisa, Young; , How Music Bruce Springsteen, Rocky Works. Ground; feat. , TV / Media: Concrete Angel; Yeah Debuting: The Voice UK Yeah Yeahs, Heads Will (BBC1). Roll (A-Trak Remix); Sean Ending: Harry Hill's TV Tyas feat. Lo-Fi Sugar , Burp. The World; Eximinds & d. Bob Holness (Jan 6), Sarah Russell, Pain Into Eric Sykes (Jul 4), Sid Purpose (Philippe El Sisi Waddell (Aug 11), Patrick Remix); Alexander Popov, Moore (Dec 9). When The Sun (Eximinds Remix); Stoneface & Fashion: Terminal feat. Ellie 1990s fashion made a Lawson, Breaking Through comeback in the UK and (Club Mix); Dan Stone, US, including chinos, Drive (Stoneface & grunge style padded tartan Terminal Remix); overshirts, crewneck Solarstone + Aly & Fila, sweatshirts, beige cargo Fireisland; Mehmet Akar, pants, Chucks, combat The Light Goes On (Kastis boots, throwback Torrau & Arnas D Remix); basketball or baseball Nero, Crush on You. uniforms, baggy jeans, LPs: Taylor Swift, Red; and preppy Nantucket Lana Del Rey, Born To Reds. Die; Justin Bieber, Believe; One Direction, Take Me Visual arts: Home; The Vaccines, The d. Robert Hughes (Aug 6). Vaccines Come of Age; Mumford & Sons, Babel.

February 6 The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. 21 Greek government debt crisis: Eurozone finance ministers reach an agreement on a second, €130-billion Greek bailout. May May May 23 Warrington Parr Hall, 20 Robin Gibb dies. 13 Manchester City win Warrington, England. their first league title since 1968, beating Queens Park Rangers 3-2 on the final day of the season with a last-minute goal from Sergio Agüero. 19 Chelsea clinch their first Champions League title by defeating Bayern Munich 4-3 on penalties in Munich. June 8 Club Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain. 9 Club Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain. 12 Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam. 14 Hulstfred Festival, Sweden. 16 NorthSide Festival, Denmark. 22 , Germany. 24 , Germany. 25 Les Nuits des Fourvières, Lyon, France. 29 Heaton Park, Manchester, England. 30 Heaton Park, Manchester, England. July July 27 - August 12 1 Heaton Park, The 2012 Summer Manchester, England. Olympics are held in 5 , Dublin, London. Republic of Ireland. 7 T In The Park Festival, Scotland. 13 Optimus Alive Festival, Portugal. 14 Benicassim Festival, Spain. 17 Milan City Sound Hippodrome, Milan, Italy. 22 Indoor Stadium, . 24 Asia World Arena, Hong Kong. 27 Fuji Rock Festival, Japan. 29 Jisan Valley Rock Festival, South Korea. August August 6 Village Underground, 6 Curiosity, the Mars London. Science Laboratory 8 Øya Festival, Norway. mission's rover, 10 Sziget Festival, successfully lands on Hungary. Mars. 12 Summer Well Festival, Romania (cancelled due to weather and safety issues). 17 Pukkelpop, Belgium. 18 , Chelmsford, England. 19 V Festival, Staffordshire, England. 22 Vital Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland. September September 11 - 27 25 Andy Williams dies. A series of terrorist attacks are directed against United States diplomatic missions worldwide. In Libya, the attacks result in the deaths of the United States Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans. 12 The Hillsborough Independent Panel clears Liverpool fans of any responsibility for the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. It reveals that attempts were made by the authorities to conceal what had happened, including the alteration of 164 statements relating to the disaster by the police. October 14 Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first person to break the sound barrier without any machine assistance during a record space dive out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon from 24 miles over Roswell, New Mexico. October 24 - 30 Hurricane Sandy kills at least 185 people in the Caribbean, Bahamas, United States and Canada. Considerable storm surge damage causes major disruption to the eastern seaboard of the United States. November 7 President Barack Obama is re-elected for a second term, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. November 25 - December 9 Typhoon Bopha kills at least 1067 people, and leaves hundreds missing. December 14 Twenty children, ages 6 to 7 years old, and eight adults are shot and killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Two adults were left wounded.

2013

Art created by John 45s: Taylor Swift, 22; Cinema: Squire in this year: Eminem feat. Rihanna, Iron Man 3; Despicable Me IOU (RCA postcard series, The Monster; Chris Brown 2; World War Z; Monsters #1142); IUD (RCA feat. Lil Wayne and Tyga, University; Elysium; Oz the postcard series, #1539). Loyal; , Move. Great and Powerful. LPs: One Direction, Midnight Memories; The Fiction: National, Trouble Will Find Donna Tartt, The Me; Avril Lavigne, Avril Goldfinch. Lavigne; My Bloody Valentine, m b v; Classixx, Non-fiction: Hanging Gardens. Morrissey, Autobiography.

February February TV / Media: 21 Media City 28 Benedict XVI steps Debuting: Amphitheatre, Dubai. down as Pope. (A&E); 23 Lapangan D-Senayan, (ITV). Jakarta, Indonesia. Ending: The IT Crowd. 26 Vector Arena, , New Zealand. Fashion: March March Return of anti-fashion. In 1 The Riverstage, 13 Cardinal Jorge Mario China and North Korea, Brisbane, Australia. Bergoglio of Argentina is black and white polka dot 2 , elected Pope, whereupon dresses became Doomben Racecourse, he takes the name fashionable from spring Brisbane, Australia. Francis. 2013 onwards. In Britain, 3 Future Music Festival, polka dot shirts in black, Arena Joondalup, Perth, blue, red or brown were Australia. worn by both women and 6 Hordern Pavilion, fashion-conscious male Sydney, Australia. hipsters. A unisex fad in 7 Festival Hall, Melbourne, February to April 2013 was Australia. the onesie, a one-piece 9 Future Music Festival, garment similar to a child's Royal Randwick blanket sleeper. Racecourse, Sydney, Australia. Visual arts: 10 Future Music Festival, d. Storm Thorgerson (Apr Flemington Racecourse, 18). Melbourne, Australia. 11 Future Music Festival, Bonython Park, Adelaide, Australia. April April 9 Pepsi Center WTC, 15 Two bombs explode at Mexico City, Mexico. the Boston Marathon, 12 Coachella Festival, killing 3 and injuring 264 California, USA. others. 19 Coachella Festival, 24 An eight-storey California, USA. commercial building collapses in Savar Upazila near the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, leaving 1,129 dead and 2,500 injured. May 30 The Stone Roses attend the premiere of Made of Stone at , Manchester. June June 3 La Cigale, Paris, France. 14–30 Flash floods and 4 La Cigale, Paris, France. landslides in the Indian 7 Finsbury Park, London. states of Uttarakhand and 8 Finsbury Park, London. Himachal Pradesh kill 14 Isle of Wight Festival. more than 5,700 people 15 Glasgow Green, and trap more than Glasgow. 20,000. July 3 Amid mass protests across Egypt, President Mohamed Morsi is deposed in a military coup d'état, leading to widespread violence. August 9 Sonic Mania Festival, Tokyo, Japan. 11 , Osaka, Japan. September 21 Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, killing at least 62 civilians and wounding over 170. October 27 dies in Southampton, New York from liver disease at age 71. November 8 Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record, makes landfall in the Philippines, causing thousands of casualties.

2014

Art created by John 45s: Taylor Swift, Shake It Cinema: Squire in this year: Off; Mark Ronson feat. Boyhood; Interstellar; N/K Bruno Mars, Uptown Funk; Calvary; JFK to 9/11: Galantis, Runaway (U & I); Everything Is a Rich Man's Coldplay, A Sky Full of Trick; We Need to Talk Stars. About Sandy Hook. LPs: One Direction, Four; Taylor Swift, 1989; Ariana Fiction: Grande, My Everything; Rainbow Rowell, Landline. The War on Drugs, Lost in the Dream; J. Cole, 2014 Non-fiction: Forest Hills Drive; The Marina Keegan, The Pains of Being Pure at Opposite of : Heart, Days of Abandon; Essays and Stories. Beck, Morning Phase; Cloud Nothings, Here and TV / Media: Nowhere Else; Hozier, Debuting: True Detective Hozier (HBO). Ending: The Tonight Show February with Jay Leno. The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa begins, Fashion: infecting over 18,000 d. Oscar de la Renta (Oct people and killing at least 20). 6,000. 7 - 23 The XXII Olympic Visual arts: Winter Games are held in Exhibitions: 'Jeff Koons: A Sochi, Russia. Retrospective' at the 13 Belgium becomes the Whitney Museum of first country in the world to American Art in New York legalise euthanasia for City. terminally ill patients of any age. 26 The pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine leads to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and an insurgency in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. March March 22 Kate Bush announces 8 Malaysia Airlines Flight a tour - her first live tour 370, a Boeing 777 airliner dates since the only tour of en route to Beijing from her career in 1979. , disappears over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board. The aircraft is presumed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean. April April 10 Reni's 50th birthday. 14 An estimated 276 girls and women are abducted and held hostage by Boko Haram from a school in Nigeria. 16 Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks after an unmanageable cargo shift, killing more than 290 people, mostly high school students. 27 The Catholic Church simultaneously canonizes Popes John XXIII and John Paul II. May 5 Boko Haram militants kill approximately 300 people in a night attack on Gamboru Ngala, Nigeria. 20 Boko Haram detonate bombs at Jos, Nigeria, killing 118 people. June 5 ISIS begins an offensive through northern Iraq, aiming to capture the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad and overthrow the Shiite government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. 12th June – 13th July The 2014 FIFA World Cup is held in Brazil, and is won by Germany. July 17 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (Boeing 777) crashes in Ukraine, after being shot down by a missile. 298 people die, including 15 crew members. August 11 Robin Williams commits suicide at his home in Paradise Cay, California. October 25 Cream bassist Jack Bruce dies. December 16 141 people, including 132 children, are killed when Taliban gunmen storm a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.

2015

Art created by John 45s: Major Lazer & DJ Cinema: Squire in this year: Snake feat. MØ, Lean On; Star Wars: The Force N/K , Lush Life; Awakens; Jurassic World; Fifth Harmony feat. Kid Fifty Shades of Grey; Ink, Worth It; Wolf Alice, Furious 7; Spectre. Freazy. LPs: , If You're Fiction: Reading This It's Too Late. Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman. March 1 Audio streaming became Non-fiction: incorporated into the UK Warren Zanes, Petty: The Albums Chart. Biography. May 23 Ireland votes to legalize TV / Media: same-sex marriage, Debuting: Lip Sync Battle becoming the first country (Spike). to do so by popular vote. Ending: Never Mind the June . 26 Obergefell v. Hodges. d. George Cole (Aug 5).

November Fashion: 13 Multiple terrorist attacks Button-front skirts, claimed by Islamic State of Athleisure, lace-up fronts. Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Paris result in 130 Visual arts: fatalities. Exhibitions: In August, Banksy opens Dismaland, a temporary art project in the seaside resort town of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England.

2016

Art created by John 45s: Ariana Grande feat. Cinema: Squire in this year: Nicki Minaj, Side to Side; Captain America: Civil ‘All For One’; ‘Beautiful Tobu & Jim Yosef, Miracle; War. Thing’. The Monkees, Me & Magdalena. Fiction: LPs: Bruno Mars, 24K Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Magic; Kanye West, The Not Yours Is Not Yours. Life of Pablo. Non-fiction: January , Set The Boy 10 David Bowie dies. Free.

April TV / Media: 21 Prince dies. Debuting: War & Peace May (BBC One). The band cancel two Ending: Wallander. Japanese concerts at the Budokan after Reni falls Fashion: and fractures two ribs. '70s-inspired suede. 12 The Stone Roses, All For One. Visual arts: June June Exhibitions: Beyond 7 Victoria Theatre, Halifax, 23 The United Kingdom Caravaggio , National England. votes in a referendum to Gallery. 8 The Sands Centre, leave the European Union. Carlisle, England. 10 The Stone Roses, Beautiful Thing. 15 Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England. 17 Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England. 18 Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England. 19 Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England. 30 Madison Square Garden, New York, USA. July 8 T in the Park, Scotland. 9 Marlay Park, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. November 8 In the United States presidential election, Donald Trump defeats Hillary Clinton. December December 12 Concert Hall, Sydney 25 George Michael dies. Opera House, Sydney, Australia. 13 Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia. 14 Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia.

2017

Art created by John 45s: Calvin Harris feat. Cinema: Squire in this year: , Katy Blade Runner 2049. N/K Perry and Big Sean, Feels; Katy Perry feat. Nicki Fiction: Minaj, Swish Swish; George Saunders, Lincoln Taylor Swift, ...Ready for in the Bardo. It? LPs: , Non-fiction: Damn. Milo Yiannopoulos, Dangerous. April 21 Nippon Budokan, TV / Media: Tokyo, Japan. d. John Hurt (Jan 25), 22 Nippon Budokan, (Aug 18). Tokyo, Japan. Fashion: June The New Athleisure, 13 The SSE Arena, Rainbow-Bright Stripes, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Street-Chic Utilitarianism. 17 Wembley Stadium, London, England. Visual arts: 20 First Direct Arena, What Is The City But The Leeds, England. People ? (Jeremy Deller) 21 First Direct Arena, opens Manchester Leeds, England. International Festival; 24 Hampden Park Football Kristen Visbal, Fearless Ground, Glasgow, Girl. Scotland. October October 2 Tom Petty dies. 1 58 people are killed and 489 injured when Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd in Las Vegas.

Further Ian Brown releases:

First World Problems (October 2018 single) Black Roses (December 2018 single) From Chaos to Harmony (January 2019 single) Ripples (January 2019 single) Ripples (February 2019 album)

Further John Squire exhibitions/artworks:

‘Disinformation’ (Newport Street Gallery, London, 11.9.2019 - 10.11.2019):

'Confirmation Bias' (2019, oil on canvas, 270 x 190 cm, triptych) 'Disinformation' (2019, oil on canvas, 270 x 190 cm) 'Ether' (2019, oil on canvas, 270 x 190 cm) ‘Guitar paintings’ (various guitar themed artworks) 'Manipulation' (2018, oil on canvas, 270 x 190 cm) 'No Signal' (2018, oil on canvas, 270 x 190 cm) 'Repercussions' (2018, oil on canvas, 270 x 190 cm) 'The Dust That Turns in Sunbeams' (2018) 'The Way Things Aren't' (2018, oil on canvas, 270 x 190 cm) 'Time Between' (2019, oil on canvas, 270 x 190 cm) 'Untitled' (2018, oil on canvas, 100 x 75.5 cm) 'Untitled' (2018, oil on board, 40.5 x 30.5 cm)