
“Let’s work the problem people. Let’s not make things worse by guessing.”
A Look Back at the 1990 BRIT Awards
Relive the 1990 BRIT Awards! From Fine Young Cannibals to Queen’s moment, discover the winners and iconic music from the unforgettable ceremony.
The Best-Selling UK Albums of 1990
1990 was a year clinging to the past in a decade pretending to move forward. Greatest hits, opera gimmicks, stadium ballads from men with expensive mullets. The top ten was less a chart and more a denial mechanism. Change was coming, but you wouldn't know it from this lot.
The UK didn’t want revolution. It wanted reassurance. And it bought millions of CDs to get it.
Goodfellas (1990)
Goodfellas matters because it stares capitalism in the face and tells you exactly what it is: organised crime with better marketing. It strips away the glamour and leaves you watching the ugly truth that money corrupts, loyalty is a joke, and the American Dream is a lie built on blood-soaked cash.