Welcome to Wayback Wednesdays! The lovely Angela (hostess), our expecting Mama, has appointed me as her side-kick for this walk down memory lane, mid-week round of fun. Today, we’re going to travel back in time to 1997 .
I remember with such clarity hearing this news…
Princess Di Killed in Car Crash in Paris! That really shocked me. I was one of the millions who recall getting up in the wee hours to watch my first Royal Wedding. I felt a kinship to her somehow. She was divorced from Charles at the time of her death and as a mother, all I could think about was her little children. How sad it would be for them to grow up without their mum. We miss you, England’s Rose!
Heaven’s Gate Mass Suicide! This was a UFO based religious group who believed the earth was going to be wiped clean. In order for them to survive, they were brain-washed into thinking killing oneself would allow them to reach the Comet Hale-Bopp, which they thought was an alien spacecraft. How exactly was this supposed to work anyhow? Wouldn’t it have been easier to communicate with the alien aircraft for instructions? Go figure, right?
Speaking of Hale-Bopp, I recall vividly my family and I driving to the Smoky’s to catch a peek at it in the night sky. It was absolutely spectacular. It really was big, too! It reminded me of a fuzzy cotton ball and it did have a very nice long tail. I found this picture below on the net. Someone from Nashville, Tennessee submitted it…
This is very much what we would have seen, but truly in my mind’s eye, the comet appeared much closer to us than the way this photo depicts it.
While we’re on the subject of extraterrestrial life, Men In Black featured in theatres around the Big Blue Planet. This is one of our personal favorites from 1997, and we have it in our DVD collection. There were several fantastic movies made that year.
For out-of-this world musical hits visit musicoutfitters.com for a complete list. The top charter was Candle in the Wind by Elton John. Although this song was written by Elton’s partner Bernie Taupin as a tribute to the late Marilyn Monroe releasing as a single in the US in 1987 was later re-written, changing the line “Good-bye Norman Jean” to “Good-bye England’s Rose” in memory of Princess Diana at her funeral. He later released the new version as “Candle in the Wind ’97”. He won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for this release at the Grammy Awards that year receiving a RIAA Diamond Disc for US sales of over 10 million.
This is definitely a lovely tribute to the late Princess of Wales, but I prefer the original version of the song best.
It’s your turn to go wayback, Wayback to 1997!
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What do you remember?