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He’ll regret saying that…

It’s the 10th anniversary of that squib of a musical revolution, Britpop. The Guardian has an interview with some of the players from the time and it includes this rather precious exchange:”The underbelly of it was all quite sinister to me, despite how it might have seemed on the outside – champagne with Tony Blair and all that,” he [Graham Coxon, formerly of Blur] says. “Grim resentments and backstabbing. That was when things were getting bitter.”He thinks for a moment. “What’s that thing – the line about all the great minds being destroyed? I forget the quote … “”I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness” – that one by Allen Ginsberg?”That’s it. And you did, really, in the 1990s. You saw a lot of great minds just get … fucked.”Yeah, Britpop, it was hell…