BBC Music

30 Hits of 1988 at the BBC (2025x14)

Air date: May 10, 2025

A journey through the BBC’s music archives, diving in to share all that was great in 1988. It was the year that started with Kylie Minogue releasing I Should Be So Lucky and featured hits for groundbreaking female rappers Salt-N-Pepa, as well as Terence Trent D’Arby and Glenn Medeiros. There was also a debut for music’s most notorious mime artists Milli Vanilli, who had the world at their feet in 1988 but ultimately ended up pop pariahs. A lip-syncing scandal exposed the fact that Girl You Know It's True was actually a big lie.