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Britpop guitarist Noel Gallagher (b. 1967) was born in Manchester, England. He began teaching himself guitar at the age of 13, later adopting Johnny Marr as his role model. His other inspirations were primarily British guitar bands: the Kinks, the Who, Slade, the Jam and the Stone Roses. After unsuccessfully auditioning for the role of lead ...

Source: Rock Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

novelties and US imports. This arrived in the mid-1990s in the shape of Britpop: a wave of guitar bands with short, sharp pop songs. The heavily 1960s-influenced basis of Britpop was heralded in 1990, with the release of the self-titled debut album by Liverpool group The La’s (a Merseyside slang word for ‘lads’). Led by the singer-songwriter prodigy Lee ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

for the first time. Bands such as Kraftwerk consisted entirely of synthesizer players, and the instrument dominated 1980s’ music until the re-emergence of guitar-based line-ups with indie music and Britpop in the 1990s. In the late 1980s and 1990s, music technology took a further hold on popular music, as dance music took off. Sequencers enabled musical patterns to ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

press as ‘the best new band in Britain’ before they had recorded anything. Suede spearheaded a shift from grunge towards a more British sound, which would culminate in the Britpop phenomenon of the mid-Nineties. Since the early days of Suede, Butler has been associated primarily with his cherry red 1960 Gibson ES355 and also uses a black Gibson 330. ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

beneath the iceberg of Albarn’s pretty face. With the release of infectious electro single ‘Boys And Girls’ and the cockney swagger of ‘Parklife’ Blur found themselves the leaders of the Britpop movement. Albums Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995) cemented their reputation. Rivalry with Oasis was ill timed, although taking a more loud and experimental approach on Blur (1997) ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

that night’s performance (‘Brothers And Sisters’). After their responsibilities at university were fulfilled, the band signed a then massive five-album deal with UK label Parlophone, also home to Britpop bands like Blur and Supergrass that many claim Coldplay were influenced by. After initial internal squabbles that were soon resolved, the band decided to act as a democracy with ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

Indie guitarist Graham Coxon (b. 1969) was born in West Berlin, the son of an army bandsman. His early years were characterized by the itinerant army life until the family settled in Colchester in the late 1970s. The young Coxon was a Beatles fan and possessed a talent for art. He began to learn saxophone and then at 12, ...

Source: Rock Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

Alt-rock guitarist John Frusciante (b. 1970) was born into a musical family in Queens, New York. While living in Los Angeles after his parents’ divorce, Frusciante became involved with the city’s punk-rock scene. Frusciante was particularly inspired by The Germs, teaching himself to play the songs on their first album before taking guitar lessons. He studied Jeff Beck ...

Source: Rock Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

(Vocal/instrumental group, 1996–present) Formerly known as Parva, Leeds’ Kaiser Chiefs – Ricky Wilson (vocals), Andrew White (guitar), Simon Rix (bass), Nick Hodgson (drums) and Nick Baines (keyboards) – plough the same indie furrow that fellow Britpoppers Blur did during their Parklife era. Wilson, something of an everyman, elicits playful singalong choruses from the most unexpected places, ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

diverse as the tender ‘You Do Something To Me’ and the rocky ‘The Changingman’ confirmed his appeal. Although prickly with an adoring media, a strong relationship with adoring younger Britpop musicians from Oasis to Ocean Colour Scene confirmed his influential ‘Modfather’ status. Always a well-dressed style icon, albums like Stanley Road (1995), Heavy Soul (1997) and Studio 150 (2004), ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

and ‘All For Love’ (with Bryan Adams and Sting, 1994). Whenever he deviated from the formula – as on When We Were The New Boys (1998) featuring covers of Britpop stars Blur and Oasis – the results were disappointing. In 2002, after a successful operation for thyroid cancer, Stewart embarked on a series of albums called The Great ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

it similarly encompasses several other styles such as the shoegazers, My Bloody Valentine being the leaders of this movement, Madchester, as celebrated by The Happy Mondays, Britpop, as exemplified by Blur and Oasis, and goth rock, represented by The Sisters Of Mercy. The longest-lasting and most prolific indie rock band is probably The Fall ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

The New British Invasion Eighties British pop and its success in America stemmed initially from its wave of pretty-boy acts crossing glam with synth-pop. But the key figure in 1980s Britpop was a producer, rather than an artist. Trevor Horn moved from being a member of Yes, as well as his own one-hit-wonder pop act The Buggles, to ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

spirit, adopting fresh ideas and striking new alliances. We can see how punk regained its purism in Crass, fed the intensity of Nirvana, gave an edge to Britpop or found itself a youthful new voice in acts like Green Day. Its aftershocks have never really stopped. Punk was not one-dimensional. Some ideas are so good they occur to ...

Source: Punk: The Brutal Truth, by Hugh Fielder and Mike Gent

grooves, Latin pop took some of these elements and mixed them up with dance beats, electric instruments and strong pop melodies. Introduction | Pop Styles & Forms | Britpop ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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