Monday, August 3rd 2009
I was nine in.........
1996!
ICM celebrates its ninth birthday this week with balloons, cake and party hats all around the office! We are each taking a look back at the year that each of us where nine, what major events happened in these years and maybe a picture or two of some of us aged nine.
My Year is 1996
After the split of boy band Take That in February, girl groups were the next big thing. July 8th saw the Spice Girls release their first single ‘Wannabe’ which went on to spend seven weeks at number one in the UK singles chart. I am afraid to admit that I was a very big Spice Girls fan, my bedroom walls were covered with Spice Girls posters, I owned all of their albums and me and my friends used to pretend to be the Spice Girls in the school playground, singing their songs and trying to copy their routines! Oh the embarrassment!
Trainspotting directed by Danny Boyle was released. The film went on to become a cult classic and the films soundtrack producing the iconic hit Underworlds Born Slippy. Other films released in 1996 include Independence Day, Baz Luhrmann’s modern remake of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and the horror film Scream. My favourite film of the year was Roald Dahl’s Matilda
In the summer of 1996 England hosted Euro 96 in which our home team made it to the semi finals, only to lose on penalties to one of our biggest rivals. Euro 96 also lead to Baddiel and Skinners’ football anthem Three lions on a shirt. That summer was also America’s turn to host the Olympics in which Britain came away with 1 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze medals.
Dolly the sheep became famous for becoming the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell.
To see some other major events of 1996 please click here
Posted by Sally on Monday 3rd of August 2009 at 5:17pm
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