1991

Top Selling Singles

1. Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You
2. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody”/”These Are the Days of Our Lives
3. Cher – The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)
4. Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy
5. The Simpsons – Do the Bartman
6. Jason Donovan – Any Dream Will Do
7. Chesney Hawkes – The One and Only
8. Vic Reeves & the Wonder Stuff – Dizzy
9. Oceanic – Insanity
10. Color Me Badd – I Wanna Sex You Up

Christmas No.1: Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody”/”These Are the Days of Our Lives

Top Selling Albums

1. Simply Red – Stars
2. Eurythmics – Greatest Hits
3. Queen – Greatest Hits II
4. Tina Turner – Simply the Best
5. Michael Jackson – Dangerous
6. R.E.M. – Out of Time
7. Michael Bolton – Time, Love & Tenderness
8. Madonna – The Immaculate Collection
9. Cher – Love Hurts
10. Paul Young – From Time to Time – The Singles Collection

At the Box Office

1. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. Three Men and a Little Lady
5. Dances With Wolves
6. The Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell of Fear
7. Sleeping With the Enemy
8. Home Alone
9. The Addams Family
10. The Commitments

Cost of Living

Average house price	£56,853
Average salary
Average car price
Petrol
Pint of beer	£1.29
Packet of 20 Cigarettes
Pint of milk

In the News

• Tax-exempt special savings accounts (TESSAs) were introduced
• A train crash at Cannon Street station in London kills one person and injures over 500
• The final phase of the M40 motorway through Oxfordshire is opened
• The Gulf War begins, as the Royal Air Force joins Allied aircraft in bombing raids on Iraq
• British scientist Tim Berners-Lee introduces World Wide Web, the first web browser, while working at CERN in Geneva
• The Birmingham Six are freed after the Court of Appeal quashes their convictions over the 1974 pub bombings in Birmingham
• George Carey is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury
• Kia, the Korean car company, begin importing cars to the United Kingdom for the first time
• John McCarthy, a British hostage held in Lebanon for over five years is freed
• It’s the launch of The Big Issue
• The first Sumo tournament to be held outside Japan is hosted at the Royal Albert Hall in London
• Bryan Adams makes history when his single (Everything I Do) I Do It for You, which features in the film Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves enters its fifteenth successive week at #1 in the UK singles charts.
• Computer retailer PC World opens its first branch in Croydon
• Terry Waite, a British hostage held in Lebanon, is freed after four-and-a-half years in captivity
• Freddie Mercury dies aged 45 at his home in London, just 24 hours after going public with the news that he was suffering from AIDS

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Top Selling Christmas Toys

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