One of my favourite books on rock and roll. One day in March 1994, I saw Blur's Girls and Boys on television. My only criticism is the number and length of sections dedicated to British politics. Although brimming with loads of interviews from the stars themselves and well as plenty of additional (to some supplemental) historical (essential contextual considerations) information to flesh out and make sense of not only the very world Britpop was born into and briefly inhabited before its untimely, yet ultimately predicable, abrupt implosion in 1997- and the music scene (as well as the contemporaneity aesthetic asipir. I recently read the book "Everyone Loves Our Town", an oral history of Grunge music. Buy Britpop! Such bands as Blur, Pulp, Suede, Elastica, and especially Oasis represented a brief but noteworthy renaissance of British rock music (coined, Don't Look Back In Anger: The Rise and Fall of Cool Britannia. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. © 2008-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Britpop! Cool Britannia And The Spectacular Demise Of English Rock by John Harris at Barnes & Noble. Published when New Labour was still full of life, this is an engrossing and level-headed history of arguably the 1990s' most significant musical movement, its movers and shakermakers, as captured by a journalist at the heart of the coverage. If you read this book, I recommend following it with the documentary "Live Forever" and then listening to the Pulp B-side "Cocaine Socialism. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Having seen most of the bands mentioned in the book it was a bit of an eye opener learning about what was actually going on behind the scenes of the music business at the time. Start by marking “Britpop! Drawing on interviews from all the major bands including Oasis, Blur, Elastica, and Suede, and from music journalists, record executives, and those close to government. Britpop! : Be the first to ask a question about Britpop! Add to basket. charts the rise and fall of the Britpop moment. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. 4.5 out of 5. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. I've had to restart this review several times, because it keeps turning into a sort of personal playlist of my favourite tracks of the 90s. ISBN 0-306-81367-X. : Cool Britannia And The Spectacular Demise Of English Rock, I've had to restart this review several times, because it keeps turning into a sort of personal playlist of my favourite tracks of the 90s. In dieser Rangliste finden Sie die Liste der Favoriten von Britpop rock, bei denen die oberste Position den Testsieger ausmacht. : Cool Britannia And The Spectacular Demise Of English Rock ngày 7 tháng 1 năm 1995. Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock by Harris (22-Sep-2004) Paperback Paperback – 1 Jan. 1600 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings. Resource Information The item Britpop! John Harris commented in his music history Britpop! Pop Cult. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. "Modern Life is Brilliant!" The English have always commanded the lexicon of music. and rock and roll (well, other than the first Oasis album, maybe bits of the Elastica album and Blur's woo-hoo Song No. He lives in Hay-on-Wye, England. Although, I do appreciate the image of a long-haired Tony Blair singing and playing guitar in a cover band. Passion Pictures, 2004. "In my beautiful neighbourhood: local cults of popular music". : cool Britannia and the spectacular demise of English rock, John Harris Britpop! ISBN 0-306-81367-X; Mundy, Chris (2 May 1996). John Harris. A rock n' rolling trip down memory lane and the music that I listened to in my formative years told in an inciteful and engaging manner. : cool Britannia and the spectacular demise of English rock, John Harris . John Harris. : Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock. Some of these items ship sooner than the others. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Mojo, Q, the Guardian, NME, Select, and New Statesman. John Harris has a rare gift to keep us completely engaged with excellent pacing and pleasantly smooth writing while never getting us lost in immense details of the episodic and highly mercurial inner-band conflicts, excessive drug use, constant espionage of the paparazzi, compounded by the the complete and utter insanity that is the music industry; that the author captured in their full intensity and detail. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Britpop! 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