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Uncommon People : Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs
Britpop - Book - by Miranda Sawyer
(2024)
When Miranda Sawyer interviewed Noel Gallagher in 1995, his gag wishing
Damon Albarn would die of AIDS became front-page news. This fascinating
pop history, exploring the mid-90s moment when British music suddenly
meant everything, explains why. Picking out twenty key songs, delving
into the surprising stories behind them and their unlikely creators,
Uncommon People takes us back to when Jarvis Cocker became a national
hero, Trainspotting was a global hit, fire-starting seemed like a good
night out - and it felt as though the revolution was happening.
Initially a music press nickname, Britpop became an unexpected musical
movement centred around outsiders and misfits, drop-outs and weirdos
who refused to compromise on their ideas, even when they were thrust
into the international spotlight. Not just a scene for white guys with
guitars, but something wilder and more interesting, with songs that have
proved timeless. Exploring the era's key artists - Oasis, Blur, Tricky,
Pulp, Underworld, Manic Street Preachers, The Prodigy, Suede, Chemical
Brothers, Garbage, Supergrass, Radiohead, PJ Harvey and more - through
their definitive anthems, Miranda Sawyer transports us back to the
beating heart of the nineties.
Uncommon People re-lives the
mad exhilaration of what it was like to hear these songs for the very
first time - and what it was like to make them. With amazing new
interviews, and I-was-there insights, this book offers a backstage pass
to all the most interesting bits of Britpop's Greatest Hits. Forget
New Labour, forget earnest trend theories, this book is all about the
music, the people and being right there, right now.
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