25 December 1991

Wednesday, Christmas Day

1991-12-25

Events

 * In a televised speech in the USSR, Mikail Gorbachiov resigns as president of the Soviet Union. Shortly afterwards the Soviet flag is lowered and the State Anthem of the Soviet Union is played for the last time with the Russian tricolor raised in its place at 7:45 pm, symbolically marking the end of the Soviet Union, officially dissolved the following day.

TV
scans GraemeWood
 * BBC One / BBC Two

Top of the Pops
Hosts: Tony Dortie, Claudia Simon & Mark Franklin
 * 1) Seal – Crazy
 * 2) Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter… To The Slaughter  (Video)
 * 3) Enigma – Sadness Part 1  (Video)
 * 4) Queen – Innuendo  (Video)
 * 5) Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby  (Video)
 * 6) Cliff Richard – Saviour’s Day  (Video)
 * 7) John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John – The Grease Megamix  (Video)
 * 8) C & C Music Factory Feat. Freedom Williams – Gonna Make You Sweat  (Video)
 * 9) Nomad Feat. M.C. Mikee Freedom – (I Wanna Give You) Devotion
 * 10) The KLF – 3 A.M. Eternal  (Video)
 * 11) The Simpsons – Do The Bartman  (Video)
 * 12) Madonna – Crazy For You  (Video)
 * 13) 2 In A Room – Wiggle It  (Video)
 * 14) Praise – Only You  (Video)
 * 15) Oleta Adams – Get Here  (Video)
 * 16) The Source Feat. Candi Staton – You Got The Love  (Video)
 * 17) Chesney Hawkes – The One And Only
 * 18) The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go  (Video)
 * 19) Hale & Pace & The Stonkers – The Stonk  (Video)
 * 20) Rod Stewart – Rhythm Of My Heart  (Video)
 * 21) Roxette – Joyride  (Video)
 * 22) Pet Shop Boys – Where The Streets Have No Name  (Video)
 * 23) James – Sit Down
 * 24) Cher – The Shoop Shoop Song (It’S In His Kiss)  (Video)
 * 25) The Waterboys – The Whole Of The Moon  (Video)
 * 26) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Sailing on the Seven Seas
 * 27) The Klf – Last Train To Trancentral  (Video)
 * 28) Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman  (Video)
 * 29) Beverley Craven – Promise Me  (Video)
 * 30) Zucchero & Paul Young – Sensa Una Donna (Without A Woman)  (Video)
 * 31) Kenny Thomas – Thinking About Your Love
 * 32) Color Me Badd – I Wanna Sex You Up  (Video)
 * 33) Amy Grant – Baby Baby  (Video)
 * 34) Erasure – Chorus
 * 35) Jason Donovan – Any Dream Will Do  (Video)
 * 36) Heavy D. & The Boyz – Now That We Found Love  (Video)
 * 37) Extreme – More Than Words  (Video)
 * 38) Guns N’ Roses – You Could Be Mine  (Video)
 * 39) C & C Music Factory – Things That Make You Go Hmmm  (Video)
 * 40) The Shamen – Move Any Mountain  (Video)
 * 41) Right Said Fred – I’M Too Sexy
 * 42) (73) Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You  (Video)
 * 43) P.M. Dawn – Set Adrift On Memory Bliss  (Video)
 * 44) The Prodigy – Charly  (Video)
 * 45) Oceanic – Insanity
 * 46) Salt-N-Pepa – Let’S Talk About Sex  (Video)
 * 47) Prince – Gett Off  (Video)
 * 48) Zoë– Sunshine On A Rainy Day  (Video)
 * 49) Erasure – Love To Hate You  (Video)
 * 50) The Scorpions – Wind Of Change
 * 51) U2 – The Fly  (Video)
 * 52) Monty Python – Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life  (Video)
 * 53) Kiri Te Kanawa – World In Union  (Video)
 * 54) (31) 2 Unlimited – Get Ready For This
 * 55) (11) Michael Jackson – Black Or White  (Video)
 * 56) (22) Vic Reeves & The Wonderstuff – Dizzy  (Video)
 * 57) (53) K-Klass – Rhythm Is A Mystery  (Video)
 * 58) (26) Altern-8 – Activ-8 (Come With Me)  (Video)
 * 59) Kylie Minogue & Keith Washington – If You Were With Me Now  (Video)
 * 60) (42) Bizarre Inc – Playing With Knives  (Video)
 * 61) (3) George Michael & Elton John – Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me  (Video)
 * 62) (2) Diana Ross – When You Tell Me That You Love Me  (Video)
 * 63) (16) East Side Beat – Ride Like The Wind  (Video)
 * 64) (4) The K.L.F. Feat. Tammy Wynette – Justified And Ancient  (Video)
 * 65) (1) Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody  (Video)