REWIND

e were just starting to gear up for a fresh new millennium back in November ’98 as the countdown began toward the last ever year to begin with a one. The Offspring’s became one of the best-charting punk singles ever, while Cher was busy ruining pop music for future generations by. The much-underrated had just hit the cinema, the BBC confirmed that Bianca would be leaving , and Ian McEwan won the Booker Prize for . It was all happening up in space too, with NASA’s Voyager 1 probe claiming the record for the most distant man-made object from the solar system (it reached 1.03849×1010 km away, if you’re counting), and Russia launched a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to carry the first section of the International Space Station into orbit. And back down here on Earth, newsagent clientele across the land were stopped in their tracks by frankly astonishing cover design.