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Nero - "Promises" (2011)

This song by the London dance band debuted at No1 in the UK. The song received a Gold certification in the US in 2012.

 

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Billie Ray Martin - "Your Loving Arms" (1994)

The German dance songstress and songwriter had a Number 6 UK hit in the year Mandela becomes the first black President of South Africa, the Bosnian War rages, Netscape Navigator becomes the young World Wide Web's dominant browser, Norway votes against joining the EU and AOL makes the internet easily accessible to Americans for the first time.

 
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Spiller ft. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" (2000)

The Italian DJ and the British singer teamed up to produce this classic in the year the Second Chechen War rages, the PlayStation 2 is released, huge fuel protests take place across the UK and the last Pyrenean ibex is killed when a tree falls on it, thus rendering the species extinct...

 
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Yazz and the Plastic Population - "The Only Way Is Up" (1988)

The London artist had a hit with this in the year of the world's first well-known internet virus, the United States and Europe are linked by the internet for the first time and 100,000 people in Estonian SSR sing on three consecutive nights in support of a breakaway from the USSR...

 

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Aqua - "Doctor Jones" (1997)

The band with a female Norwegian lead singer, a Danish vocalist and two Danish DJs scored a hit with this cheesy but catchy song in the year RAF Wing Commander Andy Green broke the world land speed record at 763 mph, a record which has yet to be broken...

 
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Real McCoy - "Another Night" (1993)

The German dance band had a No3 UK and US hit in the year Czechoslovakia split into Czech Republic and Slovakia, six people are killed as a bomb detonates in the World Trade Center and Monica Seles is stabbed during a tennis match in Hamburg

 

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Vic Reeves and The Wonder Stuff - "Dizzy" (1991)

The British comedy band knocked the mighty Irish rockers U2 off the top of the UK charts in the year the USSR broke up, Harald V becomes the King of Norway, a reunified Germany regains full independence from USA, USSR, Britain and France following World War II (the Germans could finally be trusted to behave) and Britain's Tim Berners-Lee puts the first website online

 
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Erausre - "Love to Hate You" (1991)

The London electro-poppers had a hit with this banger in the year Edith Cresson becomes France's first female PM and Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to address the US House of Representatives

 
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The Farm - "All Together Now" (1990)

The Liverpool band had a Top 10 hit in Britain and around the world with this emotional song about the famous 1914 Christmas Day truce, during which British and German soldiers decided to stop trying to kill each other and instead played football and exchanged gifts. The British and Germans gave each other their rations and showed each other photos of their wives and children - these soldiers, don't forget, didn't mean each other any animosity but were following orders or else face a firing squad.

 
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In case North Americans can't understand a song performed by a Liverpool band, here's the song with subtitles...

 

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Eiffel 65 - "Blue" (1999)

The Italian dance band had a cheesy hit in several countries in the year Pluto moved further away from the Sun than Neptune for the first time since 1979; NATO attacked Yugoslavia, the first time it attacked a sovereign state; BBC presenter Jill Dando was shot dead; the Columbine Massacre took place in the USA; and Manchester United beat Bayern Munich to win the European Cup.

 

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Run DMC ft Jason Nevins - "It's Like That" (1998)

The New York City hip hop group had a huge global hit in collaboration with the Los Angeles singer in the year that evidence shows that the Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate; the world's largest suspension bridge opens in Japan; the Second Congo War starts, which becomes the bloodiest war since World War II, killing 5.4 million; and the critically acclaimed video game Half-Life is released on PlayStation 2...

 
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Maxx - "Get Way"' (1993)

The German duo had a big hit in the year Kazakhstan destroyed its Soviet missiles two years after it seceded from the USSR; Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia; and Albert II became King of Belgium...

 
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Enigma - "Sadness" (1990)

A huge hit by the German band in the year Germany reunified and Lithuanians sang en masse is support of their nation breaking away from the USSR. It would soon happen...

Sung in Latin and French the song is about the Marquis de Sade and his love of sex...

 
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The Cardigans - "My Favourite Game" (1998)

The Swedish band had a No 14 hit in Britain with this song in the year the Far-Left militant West German Red Army Faction, which hilariously considered the RAF a terrorist organisation (what would they have been like had Hitler won? But that's lefties for you), is disbanded; and 2100 people are killed by an earthquake in Papua New Guinea...

 
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