The 1990s will forever be referred to as the Dance decade.

Starting with a style called 'Madchester'. It came from the infamous nightclub 'Hacienda' in Manchester.

Madchester was a musical and cultural scene that developed in the English city of Manchester in the late 1980s, closely associated with the indie dance scene. Indie-dance saw artists merging indie music with elements of acid house, psychedelia, and 1960s pop.

The 90s did not define itself until around 1993 with dance hits from new styles like 'Haddaway' 'Technotronic' & '2 Unlimited'.

1991 saw the longest U.K. number one with the Bryan Adams single 'Everything I Do, I Do It For You' which stayed at the top for 16 weeks. The question from disc jockeys was 'Who the hell is still buying this single? It sold enough copies to be virtually in every home in the country. The next single to almost beat it was in 1994 with 'Wet Wet Wet' and their cover of 'Love Is All Around' which was at number one for 15 weeks. It was deleted by Marty Pellow, lead singer of the group to allow others a chance at number one.

The week it was deleted saw a Euro Pop single that everyone on holiday was getting off on, go to the top of the charts. Whigfield had arrived with 'Saturday Night' and the 1990s, The Dance Decade had finally arrived.

The most notable year of the 1990s was 1997. 

Starting with a new T.V. channel. For those on analog terrestrial channels we now had 5 channels with 'Channel 5'.

Then we won the Eurovision Song Contest with 'Katrina & The Waves'. 'Love Shine A Light' went to number one. The U.K. has not won the contest since then.

Next, we cheered the 'New Labour' victory and ended 18 years of Tory austerity. That general election ended with a landslide victory.

The 31st August 1997 was a date when everyone knew where they were and what they were doing as the news hit that 'Princess Diana' was killed in Paris. It was the 1990s shock horror day. Just like the 1960s had the killing of President Kennedy in Dallas on 22nd November 1963. The 1970s had the death of Elvis Presley on 16th August 1977. The 1980s had the murder of John Lennon on 8th December 1980 and the 2000s had 9/11. If you were alive on these dates you will always remember where you were and what you were doing when the news hit you.

By the time we got to 1999. It was not the party everyone was dreaming of. Yes, there were fireworks to see in the new millennium but bars and nightclubs jumped on the greed bus and charged extortionate prices. Entrance charges ranged from £30 to £80 in most towns and cities with London nightclubs charging as much as £150 to get in and no nightclubs offered re-entry so if you wanted to leave to see the fireworks you had to pay to get back in. Even the lower bars that are normally free to enter or charged a small fee of around £4 were charging £20 just to get into an average pub. Everywhere doubled or tripled drinks prices.

With such extortion, it was no surprise that most bars and nightclubs were less full than on a normal Saturday night. Most people with any kind of social circle just had house parties at home. By the time everyone woke up to the hangover from hell on 01:01:2000 it was a case of 'Was that it?' 

Rather than be like the 'Prince' song and party like it's 1999, it turned out to be more like 'Pulp's 'Disco 2000'. The millennium bug did not happen and computers did not crash and cause chaos like everyone feared.