Welcome once more, whether you like it or not, to our deep dive into old school rock-centric gibberish, This Week In Kerrang! History! It's where we take a long hard look at ourselves and the world in general, and think about what we’ve done.
This week we're throwing it back to the year 2000, a time that once sounded like it was super futuristic, but looking back now it just sounds like it was 18 years ago.
This was the same year Angelina Jolie married Billy Bob Thornton, while her future husband Brad Pitt married Jennifer Aniston first. This was also the year that Pope John Paul II felt the need to give his blessing to Pokémon, DeviantART launched, Big Brother was aired on UK TV screens for the first time, and Ryan Sessegnon – professional footballer for Fulham FC and England – was just a month old by the time mid-June came around. Imagine being one month old. That's pretty young. Anyway, In summer 2017 Tottenham reportedly offered £25million for him to kick a ball around while wearing their white jersey instead of Fulham's, but the offer was promptly rejected.
Moving on from that utterly depressing bit of context, here’s to the June 10, 2000 issue of Kerrang!, where we were splashing around with pop-punk phenomenon blink-182, who were then known simply as Blink 182.