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Brit awards 1999

March 2023

  • Billie Piper, B*Witched. Pete Waterman, Simon Cowell, the Spice Girls

    ‘There were fist-fights down at CD:UK’ – 90s pop remembered by those who lived through it

    Conflict between bands, conflict within bands, booze, breakdowns and awards-show agony: in these extracts from oral history Reach for the Stars, Five, Steps, Pete Waterman and more spill about the dark side of the decade

June 2011

  • Belle & Sebastian

    A history of indie music
    Belle and Sebastian prove the power of the fanbase

    16 February 1999: Number 41 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie music

February 1999

  • Talent goes cruelly unrecognised

  • Robbie is crowned king of the Brits

January 1999

  • Shortlist confirms rebirth of Robbie

    The mercurial Robbie Williams last night confirmed his position as Britain's leading pop icon with an unprecedented number of nominations for the 1999 Brit Awards.

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