{"product_id":"last-party-pb","title":"Last Party Pb","description":"''The loveliest – and certainly the most human – book about pop music I''ve ever read … A delightful and humane soap opera, a real page-turner, full of rounded and entirely recognisable characters.''Jon Ronson, Daily TelegraphTHE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF BRITPOP – BLUR, OASIS, ELASTICA, SUEDE \u0026amp; TONY BLAIRBeginning 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 their millions, a new celebrity elite emerged and Tony Blair''s Labour Party found itself, at long last, returned to government.Drawing on interviews from all the major bands – including Oasis, Blur, Elastica and Suede – from music journalists, record executives and those close to government, The Last Party charts the rise and fall of the Britpop movement. John Harris was there; and in this gripping new book he argues that the high point of British music''s cultural impact also signalled its effective demise – If rock stars were now friends of the government, then how could they continue to matter?Britpop in numbers:There were an astonishing 2.6 million ticket applications for the Oasis gig at Knebworth in 1996. 1 in 24 of the British public wanted to see them play. In the end the band played to 250,000 fans across two nights with a guest list that ran to 7,000.’Definitely, Maybe’, Oasis''s debut album, went straight to No 1, selling 100,000 copies in 4 days and outselling the Three Tenors in second place by a factor of 50%On its first day in the shops Oasis''s second album, ‘What''s The Story, Morning Glory’, was selling at a rate of 2 copies a minute through HMV''s London stores.By 1997 Creation Records (which had been founded 12 years earlier with a bank loan of £1,000 by an ex-British Rail Clerk Alan McGee) announced a turnover of £36million thanks almost entirely to one band: Oasis.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57309793878398,"sku":"NW9780007134731","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780007134731.jpg?v=1778506497","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/last-party-pb","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}