书籍介绍
Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics, and fleeting political optimism, this was "Cool Britannia." Records sold in the millions, a new celebrity elite emerged, and Tony Blair's Labour Party found itself returned to government. Drawing on interviews from all the major bands including Oasis, Blur, Elastica, and Suede, and from music journalists, record executives, and those close to government, Britpop! charts the rise and fall of the Britpop moment. In this wonderfully engaging, page-turning narrative, John Harris, currently the hottest young music journalist in the UK, argues that the high point of British music's cultural impact also signaled its effective demise. After all, if rock stars were now friends of government, how could they continue to matter? "Cool Britannia was an empty promise that was bound to end in tears. John Harris captures the moment when New Labour, desperately wanting to seem hip, invited Britpop into Downing Street. Irresistible." -Billy Bragg
精彩摘录
- "'He(Bernard Butler) was incredibly quiet,' says Justine Frischmann. 'He said he'd been reading the ads in the back of the music papers for five years, and this was the first one that had said the right thing. There was some talk of calling him Laughing Boy, because his face didn't crack once, and he"
- "Once her(Justine Frischmann) role was cemented, Butler began to draw a very pleasing kind of solace from the time he spent with the group. 'I was very young-looking, and I was very skinny. And they were the first people I'd met who thought they were good things. That helped me warm to them: they enc"
- "She(Justine Frischmann) was not the only member of Suede with misgivings. In Frischmann's recollection, as the year wound on,Bernard Butler became increasingly prone to causing tense scenes at rehearsals - though his ire was more a matter of aesthetics than career prospects. 'He wasn't a fantastic c"
- "As the year drew to a close, her sense of inertia began to extend into her relationship with Anderson. 'Because we were both at college,' she says, 'we were spending every second of every day together. And we hit the year-and-a-half stage that every romance hits - the honeymoon period's over, and it"
用户评论
啊啊粉粉的好大的一本！其实就是the last party啦不过是美版的 于是就有了很米国的前言 好歹三个星期断断续续看掉了！而那本立不挺还要过一个月才发货！吐一口鲜血滚回去学习！其实槽点好多啊 德森血泪史太虐了 还有总觉得刚开始写淫团就特么结束了一样！好吧早期本来就好冗长的…后记里还提到立不挺～ britpop大百科啊脑残粉必备！回去慢慢码笔记…
抹把淋一脸的狗血】Would there be another renaissance that I could catch up to?
老版的不错，个人觉得比last party好一些。
2008-04-25
有种“前面看完了后面就不用看了”的感觉_(:з」∠)_
没事，我把所有ogaysis都跳过了
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