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Don't look back in anger: the simultaneous rise of Blair and Britpop marked a brief moment of unity between culture and politics. So where did it all go
In May 1997, I was the editor of the now-defunct music monthly Select, a magazine that will forever be associated with the music known as Britpop. On ......(Continue Reading) The sweet scent of carbon monoxide: Tony Blair once admitted to Charlie Lee-Potter that he longed to move to the countryside, but Cherie wouldn't have
Just before the general election of 1997, I interviewed Tony Blair for The World This Weekend on Radio 4. Afterwards, I totted up the list of facts I had extracted from him about the likely impact...(Continue Reading)public school smarm of Blair, The
Andrew Gimson attributes the PM's success to snobbery and a system Labour purports to despise TONY BLAIR sounds charming, really charming - or so many ......(Continue Reading)Official! It really is a mad, mad, mad, mad world: dark thoughts about humanity's future don't usually get to the top of the Christmas singles charts.
The Christmas number one can signify not only the taste but also the mood of the nation. Record companies know this, too, and market their product with ......(Continue Reading)Old romantics: William Cook recalls the era of miners' strikes, hair mousse and great pop music
Gatecrash any office party this Christmas and the chances are that much of the music will be at least a generation out of date. Nothing evokes lost youth so vividly as the music of our teenage year...(Continue Reading)
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