Parklife

BLUR – Topped UK Album Charts With Their Classic Breakthrough LP ‘PARKLIFE’ Today 30 Years Ago

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15 May 2024

Britpop heroes BLUR scored their first No.1 album in the UK
with their paramount 3rd LP PARKLIFE which catapulted them
into stardom.

Mastermind Damon Albarn told NME back in 1994, “For me, Parklife
is like a loosely linked concept album involving all these different stories.
It’s the travels of the mystical lager-eater, seeing what’s going on in the
world and commenting on it.”

The album originally entitled ‘London‘, with the front sleeve being
a photo of a fruit-and-vegetable car, went four times platinum in
the UK.

– GIRLS AND BOYS –

– PARKLIFE –

– ALBUM –

BLUR: All Albums

SUPERGRASS (1995) And BLUR (1994) Scored No 1 Album In The UK

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Back in time

15 May 2023

Band: BLUR (London, UK)
Active: 1988–present (hiatuses: 2004–2008, 2016–2022)

Album: PARKLIFE – their 3rd LP
It topped the UK Album Charts this day in 1994.
Four times platinum.

The album was originally going to be entitled London and the album cover shot was going to be of a fruit-and-vegetable cart. Albarn stated tongue-in-cheek, “That was the last time that Dave Balfe was, sort of, privy to any decision or creative process with us, and that was his final contribution: to call it London“. The cover refers to the British pastime of greyhound racing.

TOP SINGLE

FULL ALBUM


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BLUR: Bio – Discography

Band: SUPERGRASS (Oxford, England)
Active: 1993–2010, 2019–2022 (on hiatus now)

Album: I SHOULD COCO – their debut LP

The title of the album is cockney rhyming slang for “I should think so”.
The LP’s front cover is a painting based on three separate DIY photos
of band members Coombes, Goffey, and Quinn. It topped the UK Charts
this day in 1995.

TOP SINGLE

FULL ALBUM


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SUPERGRASS: Bio – Discography

BLUR At Wembley Stadion In LONDON – 8 July 2022

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Former Britpop heroes BLUR announced a giant reunion concert at
Wembley Football Stadium in London next summer, on 8 July 2023.
Very probably for a full house of 90.000 fans.

I’m pretty sure these 3 knockouts
will be part of their set.

– GIRLS AND BOYS –

– SONG 2 –

– PARKLIFE –

BLUR: Bio – Discography – Facebook – Instagram

Britpop Legends BLUR Released Their ‘PARKLIFE’ Single 25 Years Ago…

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Knockouts from the past…

21 August 2019

Band: BLUR
Song: PARKLIFE
Released: 22 August 1994 – 25 years ago
Note: It was the title track of their triumphant third LP ‘Parklife’  that became a number one album in the UK. Singer/songwriter Damon Albarn revealed that the track was inspired by the park he lived close by. “I was living on Kensington Church Street (London), and I used to come into the park at the other end, and I used to, you know, watch people, and pigeons.” The hit is also famous for the spoken word part of actor Phil Daniels
Score: It peaked a #10 in the UK

Now, let’s go have fun in the park…

BLUR: Facebook – All Singles