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[35] [36] Blur won four awards at the 1995 Brit Awards, including Best Band and Best Album for Parklife. [37] Coxon later pointed to Parklife as the moment when "[Blur] went from being regarded as an alternative, left field arty band to this amazing new pop sensation". [38] Blur began working on their fourth album The Great Escape at the start ...
This is a comprehensive list of songs by English band Blur. Since forming in 1989, the band have released eight studio albums, three live albums, seven compilation albums, and thirty-five singles. This list does not contain live versions or remixes released by the band. Blur have officially released 255 songs, excluding alternate versions or ...
Blur is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Blur, released on 10 February 1997 by Food Records. Blur had previously been broadly critical of American popular culture and their previous albums had become associated with the Britpop movement, particularly Parklife , which had helped them become one of Britain's leading pop acts.
"Under the Westway" is a single by English band Blur, released in July 2012. After being played by Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon at Brixton Academy as part of a charity performance for War Child, [2] speculation rose as to "Under the Westway"'s release.
Damon Albarn (/ ˈ ɔː l b ɑːr n /, AWL-barn; [2] born 23 March 1968) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He is the frontman and main lyricist of the rock band Blur and the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtual band Gorillaz.
The discography of English rock band Blur consists of nine studio albums, six live albums, five compilation albums, one remix album, two video albums, four extended plays, 35 singles, 10 promotional singles and 37 music videos.
"Country House" received a great deal of media attention when Blur's label Food Records moved the original release date to the same day as Oasis's "Roll with It".The British media had already reported an intense rivalry between the two bands and this clash of releases was seen as a battle for the number one spot, dubbed the "Battle of Britpop".
It was included on the band's Best Of and 2009 Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur compilations. The song has been performed live many times. It was the final song at Blur's Mile End stadium gig of 1995, [6] as well as Glastonbury 1994, where the song was voted by fans on the festival's website to appear on the compilation DVD Glastonbury Anthems.