On 13 February 1989, inside the grand surroundings of Royal Albert Hall, the British Phonographic Industry attempted to make the Brit Awards less stuffy.
With rock legend Mick Fleetwood and pop star Samantha Fox at the helm, autocues failed, Boy George made a gay sex joke, a government minister was heavily booed and hundreds of screaming Bros fans wiped out backstage communication. The result was a broadcast so painful the BRITs wouldn’t be broadcast live again for eighteen years.
In this episode, Olivia Jones revisits the night British music television imploded and ask whether, in all its shambolic, toe-curling glory, it was the most perfectly British awards show of all time.
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