(Guitarist Graham Coxon famously threatened to jump out of a window over the whole affair.) Yet more memorable than the songs themselves, both of which were the bands’ weakest to date, was the media circus surrounding the showdown – the tribal loyalties it engendered NME’s breathless “heavyweight championship” cover and Noel’s infamous off-the-cuff remark wishing Aids on Albarn and his bandmate Alex James. Blur and their label engineered a chart battle between the bands’ next singles, Country House and Roll With It, from which Blur would ultimately emerge victorious, if mildly traumatised. And Blur, being Blur, thought it was a game.”Įveryone knows what happened next. “Oasis, being Oasis, decided to hate them. “Damon got on one about it and decided to take Oasis on,” Creation boss Alan McGee later recalled to NME.
Blur are a top band.” It wasn’t until a couple of months later, when Albarn turned up to a Creation Records party celebrating Some Might Say reaching No 1 – and was mercilessly taunted by a triumphal Liam – that the seeds of the greatest pop rivalry of the age were sown. At the 1995 NME Awards, where Blur won five awards to Oasis’s three, Noel and Damon gamely mugged for the cameras together, and Liam, in a rare moment of humility, conceded that: “I don’t think we should have got more than Blur. It is easy to forget that in the early days of Britpop, there was a mutual respect – and even tentative admiration – between Blur and Oasis. I apologise if I end up butchering your countries languageĭanny Fenton goes looking for his twin brother Richard.That gobshite out of blur might have turned noel Gallagher into a massive girl but believe you me nxt time i see him there's gonna be war- Liam Gallagher April 28, 2017.what were we thinking when this was written.Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage.Yaoi_Is_My_Life_1995 Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Young Justice - All Media Types
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