WE REMEMBER FEBRUARY 1989

Welcome welcome welcome along to another memory packed Memory Radio Blog this week we're looking back at 1989 and  we have yet another new feature as we bring you the top country song from this  year.
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                     1989 the year the Berlin Wall came down

                               Let's start off with a laugh and our mad tabloid headline from 1989

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OUR NEW CLASSIC COUNTRY FEATURE

1989 is the year that Garth Brooks exploded on the country scene with his first album simply titled Garth Brooks .It was this song that first brought him to our attention and it still sounds good.

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                                                 Our lives are better left to chance

                                         Garth Brooks First ever TV appearance

                                  THIS WEEKS CHART

                                  A new twist on this classic 1989 song

Top 10 Hits of Late February 1989

	1	Simple Minds	Belfast Child
	2	Michael Ball	Love Changes Everything
	3	Michael Jackson	Leave Me Alone
	4	Sam Brown	Stop
	5	Marc Almond featuring Gene Pitney	Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
	6	Bobby Brown	My Prerogative
	7	Bananarama & Lananeeneenoonoo	Help!
	8	S-Express	Hey Music Lover
	9	Texas	I Don't Want A Lover
	10	Holly Johnson	Love Train

No1 This week in February 1989

DJ'S CHOICE

                                        

This was one great gig in 2011 

In 1989 I had the pleasure of playing warm up to Cry Before Dawn when they played some local gigs here

I was blown away by the four piece band from Wexford and have been a fan ever since.

                                        

In 1989 we had jingles made by the famous PAMS JINGLES and we featured strongly on their demo tape that year

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RADIO  1989

Had a great laugh putting this video together to go with a recording we made of Ian Dempsey and Zig & Zag on his breakfast show back in February 1989

                                    Century Radio Opens

1989 Launch Of Atlantic 252

   

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                                                                TV 1989
                       CBS were getting us ready for the 90s

                               UK TV Ad Break 1989

"She's dead. Wrapped in plastic." Date: Friday, February 24, 1989: Homecoming Queen Laura Palmer is found dead, washed up on a riverbank, wrapped in plastic sheeting. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate the murder of this young woman in the small, Northwestern town of Twin Peaks. What he doesn't know is that in Twin Peaks, no one is innocent.

                                         

             Remember wash & go in this RTE ad break from 1989

                                         FILMS 1989

                        Batman Returns as the dark knight

                                       
                         Do the right thing was the most talked about film in 1989    
                                      
                                     STAGE 1989

Kevin McAleer’s legendary slide show was all the rage on the London circuit back in the foggy 1980s,

                                     SPORT 1989

                                                                               

COMPUTERS & GAMES

The 1989 Nintendo Game Boy

The SIMS 1989

APPLE PORTABLE 1989 V 2009

How cool was this phone in 1989

WHAT WE WERE DRIVING 1989

                                       

                                 The Ford Fiesta was the No1 selling car in Ireland iin 1989

                                                           THE PRICE OF A PINT 1989

Converted into euros the average weekly wage was €271.91  and a pint of Guinness cost  €1.87

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