Select magazine's Most Important People in the World in 1997

Hmm..

Beck? A dude who made a record, went away, came back made another one, etc.

That said, John Woo.

would love to see renzo rosso's inclusion explained

Select also published a list of those that weren't deemed worthy of a place: "ten people who weren't included - and, frankly it's no mistake"

1. Damon Albarn
2. Chris Evans
3. Steve Coogan
4. Paul Weller
5. Crispin Mills
6. Bono
7. Madonna
8. Ice-T
9. Anna Friel
10. The Spice Girls

richard ashcroft, innit?

"ten people who weren't included - and, frankly it's no mistake"

ohhhh, you got SERVED, people who thought anna friel was one of the most important people in the world

Renzo Rosso: "Diesel's brilliant ad campaigns have been statospherically influential... Diesel exudes the kind of knowing, eclectic 90s cool that everyone seeks but few manage to pull off"

Nicky Wire, for the most unhappy image result when I googled to find out who he was.

going with Prince Naseem much as I loved watching him pummel no-hopers and past it champions at the time

Cauty & Drummond are kinda baffling given this was 1997.

I was looking through a copy of Vox from 1997 recently. It's like looking into a different world. They're getting excited about Three Colours Red and Tiger. Louise Wener is on the cover. There's a picture of a lingerie model who looks exactly like Brian Molko, which is kinda lol.

"britpop was kicking off, four weddings had just come out... it was mental"

Nicky Wire - he was a phenomenal tit then and is (arguably even more of) a phenomenal tit now.

Nicky Wire, for the most unhappy image result when I googled to find out who he was.

No banana suit?

This was the "we hate Damon the songwriter but we like Graham so yeah" thing kicking off. God, Select got so joyless and shit after Britpop's peak.

i had thought the anti-oasis backlash had begun sooner

No-one screams DECEMBER 1997 like the Beastie Boys iirc

Cauty & Drummond are kinda baffling given this was 1997.

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They were on this tip which got a bit of press at the time, being a more innocent era and all

Prince Naseem. The poor man's Macho Camacho. Pretty easy choice.

This was the "we hate Damon the songwriter but we like Graham so yeah" thing kicking off.

Coxon scrapes into the list at #100. Albarn is lambasted for making the anti-Cool Britannia comment "nothing good is happening in Britain at the moment", and for "displaying a Man-at-C&A understanding of US casualwear".

In the following issue though, Blur ("Graham's album") makes #9 in their EOY poll (Be Here Now at #14).

presumably john harris had 'mad beef' with damon for some reason

Tony Blair. Why bother?

Hah, I didn't notice Blair there.

1997's kind of an odd time to have been trumpeting the importance of John Cusack

"con air" and "grosse point blank" is a p epic double

Surely it's the Yahoo! guys? Although looking at it objectively, there aren't too many "WTF who are they?" type folks on this. There are a lot of people who aren't doing much today, but they left some sort of legacy. I'd love to compare this to, say, the NME cool list 1997.

NME cool list 1997

top 5 was Tiny Ultrasound, Bahamadia, Wrekked Train, Tjinder Singh and John Thompson iirc

Bahamadia? That's not even a real STD..

Were Ultrasound actually any good at all? I don't remember what they sounded like.

took me a minute to figure out what "the yahoo guys" even meant

Bahamadia? That's not even a real STD..

And "Who Let The Dogs Out?" still three years away...

To be fair, if their claim to fame is "defining the pre-millenial world," should we be surprised that they're irrelevant now, here in the post-millenium? I have to cast my mind back to 1997 and say which of these people would I be most annoyed at finding on such a list.

Of the ones I've heard of, Kurt Cobain is the odd one out - - - how was he pitched in the article? Godfather to all the others? "THERE COULD BE NO YAHOO WITHOUT NEVERMIND!"?

What, no Bill Clinton?

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Ha, all the ILXors nodding sagely and saying, "yup, Select magazine got that one right"...

but we were voting for the worst select selection?

oh hang on nvm