1990s

I was a mere 12 years old during the heyday of Britpop, so I only came to an appreciation of […]

Radiohead are not my favourite band (though they’re in the top five), they’re not the most historically significant in rock

Brett Anderson was Britpop’s androgynous freak, Damon Albarn its brattish mockney jester, the Gallagher brothers its scowling rock’n’roll hardmen. Jarvis

Britain in 1995. The Mutually Assured Destruction of the Cold War is but a distant memory, the Islamic terrorism of

“If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I’m getting rid of grunge”. Suffice to say, a lot of

The success of Nevermind and the buzz around Nirvana created ample opportunities for similarly dishevelled and disgruntled guitar acts to

From the perspective of guitar bands, Nevermind blew the bolted doors of commercial success off their hinges and, predictably enough,

“Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second-rate Freudian evaluation of my lyrics?” Well, Kurt,

Rock went underground in the 1980s. Yes, there was The Joshua Tree and Appetite for Destruction but, broadly speaking, the

The British version of college radio jangle pop gave us the endearingly misanthropic and maudlin Morrissey, whereas the American equivalent