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Country House is Blur’s worst ever single. As part of “The Battle of Britpop” in the summer of 1995, its release date was moved forward a week in order to clash with Oasis’s Roll With It. It was a clever PR exercise, and one which led to Country House comfortably beating Roll With It to […]

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Mr Sifter sold me songs, when I was just 16
But now he stops at traffic lights, but only when they’re green
Truly awful lyrics, but that didn’t stop them helping Sifters Records in Didsbury, just outside Manchester, from becoming famous after its name check in Oasis’s Shakermaker single.
Rumour has it that the lyrics were penned by […]

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The location on the sleeve of Oasis’s first ever number one single Some Might Say is Cromford railway station in Derbyshire.
Located on the Derwent Valley Line which operates from Matlock to Derby and back, Cromford station sits between Matlock Bath and Whatstandwell stations. Designed by G.H. Stokes, it’s a Grade II listed building which was […]

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A double A-side with Kinks cover David Watts, the road referred to in The Jam’s 1978 ‘A’ Bomb In Wardour Street single is located in London’s Soho, running from Leicester Square up to Oxford Street.
The street’s most relevant occupant was the Marquee Club, which moved from Oxford Street to Wardour Street in 1964 and stayed […]

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Some might see this as a bit of an obvious post (I’m trying to stay away from the more well known locations – people don’t need me to tell them where Salford Lads Club or that street on the front of Morning Glory is), but seeing as I walked past it at least twice […]

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