1989

**1989**

**MCMLXXXIX**

* **FA Cup Winners**: Liverpool FC (beat Everton 3-2) [1]

* **Christmas Number One**: Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas?
* **Eurovision Song Contest**: Lausanne, 06 May 1989
	+ UK Eurovision Entry: Live Report - Why Do I Always Get It Wrong (position 2nd)[2]
	+ Contest Winner: Riva - Rock Me (Yugoslavia, Croatian)

* **Blue Peter Team**: Caron Keating, Yvette Fielding, Mark Curry (until 26 June), John Leslie (from 20 April -  first Scottish presenter).
* **Doctor Who**: Sylvester McCoy (final episode 06 Dec.)
* **Radio 1 Breakfast Show DJ**: Simon Mayo
* **Big Christmas Day Film On BBC1**: *Crocodile Dundee, Clockwise.* (BBC Two - *Babette's Feast*)

## Main events

* Hillsborough Stadium disaster (15 April);  Margaret Thatcher completes ten years as Prime Minister but Labour gains popularity and votes in the European Elections (15 June); unemployment is below 2,000,000 for the first time since 1980, Arsenal win the EFL in the last minute of the last game (26 May), Princess Anne & Mark Phillips separate; the Church of England votes to allow ordination of women; The Berlin Wall falls and is demolished (9 Nov.); Merry Hill Shopping Centre opens;  House of Commons is televised live for the first time.

TV
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(channel and first broadcast date in brackets)

### New shows

* *The Late Show* (BBC2, 16 Jan.), *Sunrise* (Sky News,06 Feb.1989), *Challenge Anneka* (ITV, 08 Sept.), *Blackadder Goes Forth* (BBC1, 28 Sept.), *The Satellite Show* (BBC1, 29 Sept.) *Victoria Wood* (ITV, 16 Nov.), Byker Grove (BBC1, 08 Nov.). (*full list)*

### Shows ending

* *Doctor Who* (06 Dec., until 2005), *Breakfast Time* (BBC1 29 Sept.), *Ever Decreasing Circles* (24 Dec.). (*full list)*

### Other TV events

* Sky Television begins broadcasting as the first satellite TV service in Britain (05 Feb.), Australian soap *Home and Away* begins on ITV (11 Feb.).

## Music

UK chart debuts: R.E.M.

* Biggest selling singles: Black Box - Ride On Time, Jive Bunny - Swing The Mood, The Bangles - Eternal Flame (*full list*)
	+ Best selling independent single: A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Child
* Biggest selling albums: Jason Donovan - *Ten Good Reasons,* Simply Red - *A New Town,* Phil Collins - *....But Seriously* (full list)
	+ Compilation albums: *Now 13*, *The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Marquee – Thirty Legendary Years, Now Dance '89.*
* Debut albums: Nirvana - *Bleach*, Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi, Shakespears Sister - *Sacred Heart*, Texas - Southside, The Beautiful South -*Welcome to the Beautiful South,* Lisa Stansfield - Affection (*full list*)
	+ Eponymous debuts - *The Offspring, The Stone Roses, Tin Machine, Badlands*
* Alternative/independent: The Cure - *Disintegration*, New Order - *Technique*, Pixies - Doolittle, The Jesus & Mary Chain - *Automatic*, Erasure - *Wild!*

## Films

UK releases

* *Gaming The Cube, Millennium, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Ghostbusters II, Back to the Future II, My Left Foot, Die Hard, Gorillas in the Mist*

## Births

* Sam Ryder (25 June) Gareth Bale (16 July), Daniel Radcliffe (23 July), Avicii (08 September) Taylor Swift (13 December),

## Deaths

* Joan Cooper (01 July), Pete de Freitas (14 June),

## See also

* 1989 Calendar
* 1989 Category page