Name: Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs
Brand: Miranda Sawyer

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Signed by Miranda Sawyer

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2024-10-24

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Miranda Sawyer

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John Murray

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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, delving into the surprising stories behind them and their unlikely creators,&nbsp;Uncommon People&nbsp;takes us back to when Jarvis Cocker became a national hero,&nbsp;Trainspotting&nbsp;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&nbsp;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&nbsp;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&nbsp;right there, right now.

Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs

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Discover Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs by Miranda Sawyer. Dive into the fascinating pop history of the mid-90s British music scene with this book from John Murray.