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DancehallBlur

Released: January 20, 1997

Songwriter: Dave Rowntree Alex James Damon Albarn Graham Coxon

Producer: Stephen Street

[Verse 1]
There are ghosts in here
An easy laze
They dance all night
With a vacant gaze
They stand in rows
And buy alcohol
We're having fun at the dancehall

[Verse 2]
Got my pills and I've got my toys
With pin-up girls and pin-up boys
My lips are frozen to another can
Oh I could kill him, but I just kiss his hand

Blur

British rock group Blur formed in 1988 and began life as a fairly unsuccessful shoegaze/madchester outfit, but the band quickly developed into becoming one of the leaders of the massive 1990s Britpop scene.

Their rivalry with contemporaries Oasis culminated in one of the most famous chart battles in British history – one which Blur won when “Country House” outsold Oasis’s “Roll With It” by 50,000 copies, giving Blur their first #1 single in the process.

Following this, the group embarked on a new musical direction, deliberately heading away from their trademark Britpop sound and instead taking influences from American alternative rock, a sound which earned them new fans in the US and gave them their second UK #1: “Beetlebum” in 1997.

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