Blur: Maida Vale Studios, London
Jude Rogers, Observer, The, 5 August 2012
AFTER BLUR'S 6 Music gig – the first of two shows they're playing for BBC radio tonight, to begin what they have suggested may be their last fortnight as a band – their 1995 single, 'The Universal', plays on the air.
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