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Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs | Miranda Sawyer

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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 and 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, dropouts and weirdos who refused to compromise on their ideas, even when they were thrust into the international spotlight. Notjust 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, The 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 relives 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.

 

Size: 145 x224mm (hardback with dust jacket)

Pages: 328

Publisher: John Murray

Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs | Miranda Sawyer