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Luke Haines: Bad Vibes – Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall (Heinemann)

Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 4 January 2009

ROCK HISTORY, like other sorts, tends to get told from the point of view of victors rather than losers. By popular acclaim, the big winners of British rock in the 1990s were the "Britpop" bands and it is they who have had the narrative field to themselves ever since.

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