Icon: Damon Albarn and Blur
By Hua Hsu, eMusic Contributor
There is a clip of Damon Albarn being interviewed in August of 1995, on the eve of his band's chart showdown against Oasis. This is the moment right before "Britpop" becomes both an inescapable and utterly meaningless term - in retrospect, that's all so obvious. Yet Albarn, Blur's clever, knowing narrator, gamely accepts his part in this competition, admitting a faint anxiety that Oasis's single will outsell theirs but expressing a confidence that they'll do… more »
