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S P E C I A L C O L L E C TO R ’ S E D I T I O N
The full story of Britain’s greatest modern pop band
Baggy,
Britpop
and beyond
Celebrating
20 years of
Parklife
Blur vs Oasis:
The battle in full
Classic
interviews
Brand new
features
Every record
reassessed
And… will there finally be a new album?
UK £5.99 NME SPECIAL SERIES ISSUE 4 2014
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Contents
44 Profile On… Alex
Blur’s bon viveur opens his lig-packed social
diary
46 Gallery
The best Blur pics
52 Profile On… Dave
4 Blur: The Legacy
The genesis, history, genius and influence of
Blur examined
The Flying Sticksman takes
NME
for a buzz in
his personal plane
54 Blur Vs Oasis
10 “We’re one of those lucky bastard
bands…”
In Blur’s first
NME
feature they talk arsonist
schoolteachers and the art of being (shucks)
naturally appealing
From build-up to tabloid scrum to the ultimate
crowning of ‘Country House’, here’s the Battle
Of Britpop in all its gory detail
12 “You get permission to turn into
this debauching, self-righteous self-
important monstrosity...”
adchester pretenders.
Britpop pioneers.
Post-grunge revivalists.
Psychedelic visionaries.
Afropop aficionados.
And so much more in
between. At no point
in their inspirational career did Blur even
consider standing still.
Re-evaluating them on the 20th
anniversary of their Britpop peak, ‘Parklife’,
you need to take a step back and take in the
entire Blur vista – from blank-eyed baggy-
ites to pouting pier-pop geniuses, woo-hoo
punk rockers to esoteric experimentalists.
And there’s no better place to do that than
the
NME
archive. At every step of Blur’s
career, we’ve analysed, interrogated and
got hammered with the band. Here, we
reprint the biggest and best of those many
interviews from throughout the ages.
Join Damon on a boozy rampage around
Coachella, let Alex take you on a personal
tour of his celebrity Soho drinking haunts,
catch Graham hiding from fame in the
corner of the Good Mixer and, well, come
fly with Dave.
As well as all that, we discuss their
significance and legacy, reassess all the
albums, dig up all the dirt and scandal,
gawp at all their buffest pics and try to
convince ourselves there’s still hope for a
new album. Feeling star-shaped? You’ve
come to the right place…
60 “Our label boss turned up
completely pissed so I knew we’d
won…”
Ahead of ‘The Great Escape’, Damon came
clean about his Blur Vs Oasis plot and casts
an eye over the musical landscape he’d
created
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With ‘There’s No Other Way’ in the Top 10, the
boys discuss being swept away by a tsunami
of boyband-style superstardom
66 ‘The Great Escape’ Reassessed
18 ‘Leisure’ Reassessed
The debut album given the 2014 once-over
Damon called it “messy”, but does it scrub up
in retrospect?
20 “If punk was about getting
rid of hippies, I’m getting rid of
grunge…”
Britpop was but a twinkle in Damon’s eye
when Blur took a day trip to Clacton to spray
their ‘Modern Life…’ manifesto across the
toilet walls of Old England
68 “We created a movement…
there’ll always be a place for us”
Leaving the ‘Life’ trilogy behind, Blur exposed
their inner rifts and the origins of ‘Blur’
74 ‘Blur’ Reassessed
Does “Graham’s album” still stand up against
all of Damon’s?
24 ‘Modern Life…’ Reassessed
The birthplace of Blur’s New British Image.
But how does it scrub up now?
76 “It was a hideous time, I nearly
went mad…”
Damon and Graham opened their bruised
hearts to Steven Wells
26 Profile On… Damon
Inside the mangled mind of the Britpop
originator
82 ‘13’ Reassessed
Blur’s swerve into the leftfield, dissected
28 “Maybe now’s the time to take
over…”
As ‘Girls & Boys’ swarms over the charts
like an invasion of boozy Brits on an pristine
Grecian beach, Blur spot their chance for
cultural glory and unite the Britpop nation
at Ally Pally
84 “I’m still Britpop, this record is
Britpop…”
On the loose around Coachella, Blur reveal the
truth behind the Graham split
90 ‘Think Tank’ Reassessed
Blur’s final Moroccan odyssey revisited
34 ‘Parklife’ Reassessed
The defining moment of the ’90s put under
the 21st-century spotlight
THIS PAGE: ZANNA COVER IMAGE: PAUL POSTLE
92 “The whole thing has just been
lovely, we’ve been laughing all the
time!”
Playing their comeback gig at the venue of
their first ever Seymour show, the reformed
Blur spill the beans about the comeback of
the century
36 Profile On... Graham
The indie guitar heartthrob spills his guys in
his legendary Camden local
38 “Oasis are very nice boys…”
On the celebratory ‘Parklife’ tour, Blur try to
quell the rising passions, even as their fans
are shagging against the stage
Mark Beaumont, editor
96 Parklive!
Those reunion festival shows in full
42 The Scandals!
The blind drunk gigs! The offensive sleeves!
The bitter rivalries!
B LU R
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A N E W M U S I CA L E X P R E S S S P E C I A L
98 Blur’s new album: will they/won’t
they?
Everything the band have ever said about
Blur’s possible eighth album…
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Blur
THE LEGACY
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The precocious drama school kid. The
louche bassist. The socially awkward
guitar mangler. The reformed drummer.
And together, the greatest band of their
generation. To open our in-depth
Blur history, Mark Beaumont charts
the extraordinary influence of the
band who destroyed baggy, invented
Britpop, went world music and then
turned their eyes to Mars…
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