Released: September 11, 1995

Songwriter: Damon Albarn Graham Coxon Alex James Dave Rowntree

Producer: Blur

Do-wah do-wah
La la la lee la
Do-wah do-wah
La la la lee la

Oo-ooh
Oo-ooh
Oo-ooh
Oo-ooh

Do-wah do-wah
La la la tee la o-wah
Do-wah do-wah
La la la tee la o-wah

Oo-ooh
Oo-ooh
Oo-ooh
Oo-ooh

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.