Harry Potter: a top cultural moment

A Sky Arts poll asked more than 2,000 people to choose the top 10 of the best cultural moments of the past 21 years from a list of 21 cultural events. The publications of J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 1997 and Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses in 1988 are the two literary events that made the top 10 list. The most popular choice was the “Three Tenors” singing together on the eve of the 1990 World Cup final. The launch of the iPod came in fourth, and the Riverdance performance at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in fifth.