One of his team on the show was Danny who I'm pretty sure they used to call Danny Boy. After much was made about how long he'd been with his girlfriend he proposed to her live on air and this happened in Nov 96. The reason I'm able to pinpoint this was they played "Place Your Hands" by Reef which was a new song at the time and put wedding bells over it.
Few people probably remember that but many will remember the bigger reason Chris Evans made "Place Your Hands" by Reef famous. On TFI Friday a new segment called "It's Your Letters" was introduced and Reef played a reworded version of "Place Your Hands" singing "It's Your Letters" instead.
We had the first of many posthumous hits from 2Pac in Nov 96 which was "I Ain't Mad At Cha". Incidentally the singer of the chorus on this is called Danny Boy but a different person to the one who was on the Chris Evans show.
Another artist having a posthumous hit this month was Wildchild. It had been a year since he passed away shortly after making a name for himself with "Renegade Master". His posthumous hit was "Jump To My Beat" which is the better of the 2 records in my opinion.
It had been a low key year for Dreamscape followeing the death of it's promoter Murray Beetson earlier on in the year. In November Dreamscape 23 was held which was just the 2nd and final Dreamscape of the year. It would carry on beyond 1996 but even by this point Helter Skelter was seen as the biggest rave promoter.
The Prodigy followed up "Firestarter" which another chart topper with "Breathe". Whilst it followed a similar formula as it's predecessor being a dance/rock crossover with vocals by Keith I actually like this one and bought the single. Perhaps the additional vocals from Maxim helped.
The Fine Young Cannibals made a comeback in 1996 with "The Flame". It was their first Top 40 hit since the 80s but by the time it made it onto The Chart Show lead singer Roland Gift had left the band, so it was a very brief comeback.
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