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Britpop Was Never Just Blur vs Oasis. It Was So Much Bigger.
2 days ago
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Britpop Was a Boys' Club. Let's Correct the Record.
There is a version of Britpop that gets told on a loop: Liam sneering into a microphone, Damon being clever about it, the battle of 1995, Knebworth, Cool...
3 days ago
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Noel Gallagher
There is a version of the Noel Gallagher story that gets told at closing time, all Knebworth and Britpop and brotherly chaos, and it is entertaining enough....
2w ago
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The Britpop bands Noel Gallagher thought were better than Oasis
There is a version of Noel Gallagher that the public knows by heart: the man who once claimed Oasis were the greatest rock and roll band on the planet, who...
2w ago
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Oasis: The Most Stylish Band on the Planet
There is a version of Britpop that gets repackaged every few years: the lads, the lager, the guitars, the shouting. But reduce Oasis to that and you miss...
2w ago
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Remembering Oasis’s historic Knebworth shows of ’96: ‘It was at the hedonistic end of the spectrum’
There is a version of the Nineties that gets cleaned up and sold back to us as nostalgia: the haircuts, the lad mag covers, the Sunday supplement...
3w ago
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Oasis at Knebworth 30 Years On: The Story of 1996
There are moments in British cultural history that transcend the events themselves and become something else entirely: shared mythology, collective memory...
3w ago
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How 80s and 90s Manchester Music Changed Male Fashion
Manchester didn't just make music. It made the clothes you wore to hear it, the hat you pulled down on the bus home, and the jacket your mate still hasn't...
3w ago
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