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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 TelegraphTHE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF BRITPOP – BLUR, OASIS, ELASTICA, SUEDE & TONY BLAIRBeginning 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 £1,000 by an ex-British Rail Clerk Alan McGee) announced a turnover of £36million thanks almost entirely to one band: Oasis.

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  • Kustantaja / Valmistaja HarperCollins Publishers
  • ISBN 9780007134731
  • Vuosi 2004
  • Tuotekoodi 9780007134731
  • Leveys (mm) 129
  • Pituus (mm) 204
  • Kieli Englanti
  • Alanimike Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock
  • Kirjoittajat John Harris
  • Sivumäärä 464
  • Korkeus (mm) 27
  • Paino (g) 334
  • Tuotelinja Kirjat
  • Tuoteryhmä Ulk taide, musiikki
  • Tuotemuoto Pehmeäkantinen
  • Ilmestymispäivä 21.06.2004
  • Tuotepääryhmä Ulkomaiset tietokirjat
  • Tuoteturvallisuusyhteystiedot HarperCollins Publishers, enquiries@harpercollins.ie, Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 C9W8, D01 C9W8, Dublin
  • Thema-luokitus Taide- ja orkesterimusiikki (klassinen musiikki); Populaarimusiikki; Populaarikulttuuri
  • ALV 13,5%

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