Uncommon People by Sawyer, Miranda
Uncommon People by Sawyer, Miranda

Uncommon People

When Miranda Sawyer interviewed Liam Gallagher in 1994, his gag wishing Damon Albarn would die of AIDS...
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Author: Miranda Sawyer
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Language: English
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Uncommon People by Sawyer, Miranda

Uncommon People

$73.63
Uncommon People by Sawyer, Miranda

Uncommon People

$73.63
Author: Miranda Sawyer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

When Miranda Sawyer interviewed Liam Gallagher in 1994, his gag wishing Damon Albarn would die of AIDS became front-page news all over the world. This fascinating pop history, exploring the moment British music suddenly meant everything, explains why. Picking out twenty key songs, delving into the surprising stories behind them and their unlikely creators, UNCOMMON PEOPLE takes us back to when Jarvis Cocker became a national hero, films like Trainspotting were international hits, rave became what everybody did - and it felt like the revolution was happening.

Initially a mocking tabloid nickname, Britpop became an unexpected musical movement created by squatters, activists, students and kids barely out of school and their songs have proved timeless. Exploring the era's most definitive anthems - Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers, Suede, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Garbage, Supergrass, Radiohead, Underworld, PJ Harvey, The Prodigy and more - Miranda Sawyer transports us back to the beating heart of the nineties, to relive the mad exhilaration of what it was like to hear these songs for the very first time - and what it was like to make them. Based on amazing new interviews with the leading figures, this book offers a backstage pass to all the most interesting bits of Britpop's Greatest Hits.

Forget New Labour, forget earnest theories about trends, this book is all about the music, the people and being right there, right now.

Author: Miranda Sawyer
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
ISBN: 9781399816892

About the Author
Miranda Sawyer has written about pop culture for the Observer ever since they hired her to explain why Kurt Cobain's death was such a big deal in 1993. She has since interviewed everyone from Liam Gallagher to Irvine Welsh. She has also written for the Face, Select, and Smash Hits and won several awards. The Culture Show's Music Correspondent since 2007 and a regular on Radio 4, she has made documentaries about the Spice Girls and even co-presented Big Mouth with Tony Parsons in 1996. Her first book Park and Ride explored the British suburbs, her second Out of Time exploded the midlife crisis, Uncommon People takes us time-travelling back into the heart of 90s pop.
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