The 1990s saw an increase in bands from Sussex including Keane , The Feeling , Toploader and Clearlake . Bob Stanley helped form London-based indie dance-pop band Saint Etienne , which had some success in the 1990s including a Mercury award nomination for their 1991 album '' Foxbase Alpha '' . Phats & Small also achieved some success in dance music , particularly with their 1999 single " Turn Around " . Samantha Janus finished 10th in the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest with '' A Message to Your Heart '' having won the UK national final '' A Song for Europe '' . The Cure released their most commercially successful album , '' Wish '' in 1992 which reached number one in the UK and number two in the United States , where it sold more than 1.2 million copies . In the 1990s , Suede had released three albums that went to number one in the UK album chart . These were '' Suede '' , the Mercury-nominated '' Coming Up '' and '' Head Music '' . 1995 's '' Zeitgeist '' was the Levellers ' most commercially successful album , reaching number one in the UK album chart . Songwriter and record producer , Barry Upton co-created with Steve Crosby the million-selling pop band Steps in 1997 . Simon Fuller , who grew up in Hastings , managed several acts including in the Spice Girls in the mid 1990s , where he first came to significance , going on create the '' Idol '' franchise , which was first seen in the UK under the name '' Pop Idol '' . '' Billboard '' magazine has since been certified Fuller as the most successful British music manager to date
Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 1991
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