It’s back, you cry! It’s the feature when we hop in our metaphorical Delorean and take a trip back in time to see what the world of rock and metal was like in the not nowadays days.
In all honesty, it’s the time of the week where we stride with purpose over to our archive and pull a classic issue off the shelf and gawp in wonder until we realise we have work to do.
It turns out that May 1994 was quite an eventful month in the worlds of sport, politics and, um, tunnels.
Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna was tragically killed in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, near Bologna in Italy. Poison singer Bret Michaels almost suffered a similar fate as he crashed his Ferrari into a telephone pole and broke his ribs, nose and several fingers. “I was just hauling ass and lost control of the car,” he said. “I was missing teeth, it wasn’t a pleasant picture.”
Manchester City player John Stones was born – good luck in the Russia World Cup, sir – and Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first black president. The Channel Tunnel, or ‘Chunnel’ if you’re in a hurry or just lazy, made it easier for people to stock up on cheap booze in France, while Malawi held its first multiparty elections.
And the metal world had it’s fair share of newsworthy headlines.