FWiW-88
1991
I recently completed a series of album diaries based on the year 1979. I say recently, it was in fact, over a year ago, at the end of 2023.
Now, I jump forward 12 years to 1991 and attempt to do something similar.
This time I was aiming for more of a ‘magazine’ type format, hence the name change to REWOUND.
rewind verb
past tense: rewound; past participle: rewound, as in “he rewound the tape”
I started working on my new ‘magazine’ back in December 2023.
My aim was to complete the nuts and bolts of each month of this particular year, before the end of 2024 – and then edit and fine-tune each ‘edition’ one month at a time throughout 2025.
Each month I’ll cover bits and pieces of what I was up to at the time, or at least what I can remember!! Newsworthy events that were interesting; new films; new books; and the albums released in that month, that stood out for me. Most have found their way into my physical collection, back then, or down the following decades.
All this and more in the latest edition of
What’s
this issue
1. What’s Inside
2. Mark on the Move
3. News
4. Almost Famous 1: Throwing Muses
5. Films of the Month
6. Books of the Month
7. Almost Famous 2: Dinosaur Jr.
8. The Record Collector: Throwing Muses, Deacon Blue, The Blue Aeroplanes, and Marc Cohn
9. UK number one singles
10. UK number one albums:
10. Official U.K. Top Ten Albums
11. Gig Guide
12. Donaghadee Photo Gallery
With thanks to the following publications, streaming services and websites, for their help with this and other issues:
Wikipedia, AllMusic, Mojo Magazine, NME, Uncut Magazine, GoodReads, Rotten Tomatoes, Pitchfork, Pexels.com, Q Magazine, Far Out, Rolling Stone, Album of the Year, The Great Rock Discography, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (Robert Dimery), Apple Music, Spotify, All-Time Top 1000 Albums (Colin Larkin) IMDb, On This Day.Com, Historic-Newspapers.co.uk
Enjoy your read down memory lane
For What It's Worth 
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