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20th anniversary of the Blur/Oasis battle: 14 reasons Blur deserved to win

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Blur beat Oasis in the Britpop battle of 1995
(Picture: Rex)

It’s the 20th anniversary of the great 1995 battle of the bands that saw Oasis’s single Roll With It beaten by Blur’s Country House in record sales.

Two of the biggest bands in the UK at the time, the talent was real on both sides – but so was the rivalry, and neither band held back, especially when it came to slating each other in the press.

Accepting that both bands were brilliant in their own ways, thanks to a very early introduction to a naked Damon Albarn (I was nine, he was naked in the bath on the TV singing about rich people having nervous breakdowns) this unashamed Britpop fanatic is a Blur supporter through and through – so here are 14… Read the full story


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