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The Last Party - Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock (Paperback, New ed)
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The Last Party - Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock (Paperback, New ed)
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'The loveliest - and certainly the most human - book about pop
music I've ever read ... A delightful and humane soap opera, a real
page-turner, full of rounded and entirely recognisable characters.'
Jon Ronson, Daily Telegraph THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF BRITPOP -
BLUR, OASIS, ELASTICA, SUEDE & TONY BLAIR Beginning in 1994 and
closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a
cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war.
Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics and fleeting
political optimism - this was 'Cool Britannia'. Records sold in
their millions, a new celebrity elite emerged and Tony Blair's
Labour Party found itself, at long last, returned to government.
Drawing on interviews from all the major bands - including Oasis,
Blur, Elastica and Suede - from music journalists, record
executives and those close to government, The Last Party charts the
rise and fall of the Britpop movement. John Harris was there; and
in this gripping new book he argues that the high point of British
music's cultural impact also signalled its effective demise - If
rock stars were now friends of the government, then how could they
continue to matter? Britpop in numbers: There were an astonishing
2.6 million ticket applications for the Oasis gig at Knebworth in
1996. 1 in 24 of the British public wanted to see them play. In the
end the band played to 250,000 fans across two nights with a guest
list that ran to 7,000. 'Definitely, Maybe', Oasis's debut album,
went straight to No 1, selling 100,000 copies in 4 days and
outselling the Three Tenors in second place by a factor of 50% On
its first day in the shops Oasis's second album, 'What's The Story,
Morning Glory', was selling at a rate of 2 copies a minute through
HMV's London stores. By 1997 Creation Records (which had been
founded 12 years earlier with a bank loan of GBP1,000 by an
ex-British Rail Clerk Alan McGee) announced a turnover of
GBP36million thanks almost entirely to one band: Oasis.
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