Millie Week 33: Mon 15 - Sat 20 April 1991

It's strange to think that karaoke was a fairly new thing in Britain in 1991. Karaoke nights were starting to appear in dodgy pubs all over the country, and I was doing my darndest to avoid them.

The year before, Milli Vanilli had had their Grammies taken away from them when it was discovered that neither of the guys who appeared on the album cover actually sang on their record. America insists on 'authenticity' in its pop music. Ironically, in Europe, it was never assumed that they were anything other than shop dressing for session musicians - we'd seen the same producer supply us with West German pop fronted by models a good fifteen years beforehand, in the case of the bafflingly popular Boney M. 

As for the Bohemian Rhapsody gag - I'd like to point out that Wayne's World wasn't released until the following year.