Blur: The Death Of A Party
Stuart Maconie, Select, August 1999
WE JOIN the story in the autumn of 1995. 'Country House' has beaten 'Roll With It' to Number One and the critics are in short-lived raptures over The Great Escape. Blur, however, are suffering in the hungover aftermath of yet another US tour...
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