Need Help with British Pop Music 1970's and 90's, and Wedding Traditions

[heiditandy]

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> I need to know some fairly specific things about British pop music 
> in the time of the Mauraders, and then also in 1996.  How much of it 
> is similar with the U.S.?  For example, in the mid/late 1990's there 
> was a dance here called "The Macarena" (don't know if I'm spelling 
> that right).  Did that 'fad' occur in the U.K. as well?  Were there 
> any other similar 'group' dance sorts of things?

In the UK, they've had the Now That's What I Call Music series going
on since the early 80s, and a few years back, they released
compilations of each year going back to at least 1980. I went to
Amazon.co.uk and pulled up the 1996 version - you can find it here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002MFBN/qid%3D1116750805/202-6915824-4736667
- and it'll let you know what was generally popular in that year. 

Also, this page -
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:oVWZsoiwsgUJ:www.theofficialcharts.com/html/all_songs.php+uk+charts+music+1978&hl=en&client=firefox-a%20target=nw
- has a list of all the number one hits in the UK, organized by date. 

Since I'm from the US, I don't want to try to answer the
wedding-specific questions myself, but http://www.weddingguide.co.uk/
might be of some help, too. 

Good luck!

Heidi
heidi at fictionalley.org