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Interview with Dave Rowntree

Bringin' it Backwards

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Blur - What Was the Biggest Moment?

The big moment was around the time of Pop, life where there were a few bands asking Oasis and Pulp to play. We had this famous chart battle with them where we both released a single on the same day. The other half of the battle was who could make dream up the wittiest and most cutting insults about the other lot. But in the long term, that was what did it for us. It pushed both bands up to the to the kind of bottom rung of the top ladder really - which turned out to be very, very long ladder indeed.

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