First of all, sorry for not being on here that much the last couple of months, people who know me will know why, but I'm going to do my best now to make up for it

So, the month of May will always mean one thing to me.... EUROVISION!!

I'll be sharing with you some of my favourite Eurovision moments over the next week, but in the meantime I though I'd show you what the s=chart looked like this time in 1996:

1 Gina G Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit
2 George Michael Fastlove
3 Baddiel & Skinner and The Lightning Seeds Three Lions
4 Tony Rich Project Nobody Knows
5 Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack
6 JX There's Nothing I Won't Do
7 Suggs & Louchie Lou / Michie One Cecilia
8 Peter Andre featuring Bubbler Ranx Mysterious Girl
9 1996 Manchester United FA Cup Squad Move Move Move (The Red Tribe)
10 The Smashing Pumpkins Tonight, Tonight
11 John Alford Blue Moon / Only You
12 Metallica Until It Sleeps
13 Sean Maguire Good Day
14 Gloria Estefan Reach
15 Liverpool FC & Boot Room Boyz Pass And Move (Liverpool Groove)
16 Bryan Adams The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me
17 Black Grape Fat Neck
18 Robert Miles Children
19 SWV You're The One
20 1300 Drums featuring The Unjustified Ancients Of M-U Ooh! Aah! Cantona
21 The Klubbheads Klubhopping
22 Manic Street Preachers A Design For Life
23 Celine Dion Because You Loved Me
24 Chantay Savage I Will Survive
25 Blur Charmless Man
26 The Lighthouse Family Ocean Drive
27 Busta Rhymes Woo-hah!! Got You All In Check
28 M-Beat featuring Jamiroquai Do You Know Where You're Coming From
29 Michael Jackson They Don't Care About Us
30 Alanis Morissette Ironic
31 Lisa Marie Experience Keep On Jumpin'
32 Pulse featuring Antoinette Roberson The Lover That You Are
33 Backstreet Boys Get Down (You're The One For Me)
34 Jodeci Get On Up
35 Horace Brown One For The Money
36 LL Cool J Doin' It
37 3T 24 / 7
38 Mark Snow The X-Files
39 Gabrielle Give Me A Little More Time
40 Scooter Rebel Yell

Sitting at the top of the chart was Gina Gee with one of the biggest selling Eurovision singles of all time. Such a pity that it did not do that well in the actual competition but in the mid-nineties Ireland were winning it almost every year, no matter how shit the song was

There was a hell of a lot of Football featured in the top 40, probably due to the fact that England was hosting Euro 1996 and from what I recall England did rather well [don't quote me on this, I know as much about football as next door's cat]

Apart from the all the football novelties, the rest of the chart was rather brilliant with some classic house tracks from JX, Robert Miles and Pulse, great pop from Suggs and Blur and a nice bit of rock from the Manics and The Smashing Pumpkins...good times!

So what are your memories of this period? Something else was also happening this month, a little film from the USA was shown on the BBC called... Doctor Who! I do remember getting a little bit excited about that [I did not watch it four times in one day..honestly!]