The concert was later released on VHS, and used as the basis for Blur's promo video End of a Century.

As well as authoring several books, he directed the video for Blur's " Good Song " and also for Bonnie ' Prince ' Billy's " Agnes, Queen of Sorrow ".

There is also a Roger's Dave kit used in the video of Blur's " Coffee & TV ".

A screenshot from the video for Blur's " Bang " showing the band ( Left to right: James, Rowntree, Albarn, Coxon ).

Coxon, in particular, began to resent his band mates ; James for his playboy lifestyle, and Albarn for his control over Blur's musical direction and public image.

Recording for Blur's next album began in London in November 2001, but concerted work started in June 2002, with the sessions moving to Marrakech, Morocco soon after, and then to Devon back in the UK.

No Distance Left to Run was nominated as Best Long Form Music Video for the 53rd Grammy Awards, Blur's first-ever Grammy nomination.

The artwork for Blur's Parklife album featured photos of the band at Walthamstow Stadium.

Recording for Blur's next album began in London in November 2001.

No Distance Left to Run was nominated as Best Long Form Music Video for the 53rd Grammy Awards, Blur's first-ever Grammy nomination.

Britpop began to fill the musical and cultural void left after Cobain's death, and Blur's success, along with the rise of a new group from Manchester called Oasis saw Britpop explode for the rest of 1994.

Gallagher maintains that the rivalry was conceived by the magazine NME and members of Blur's entourage as a ploy to raise their respective profiles, and that since this point he has had no respect for either party.

Street later produced the # 1 hit " Country House " and Blur's follow-up album The Great Escape, the song that won " The Battle of Britpop " for Blur by outselling rival band Oasis's single " Roll with It " from ( What's the Story ) Morning Glory in a Battle of the Bands fueled by massive coverage by the mainstream British media.

* In 1997, Nike presented a selection of Premiership players turning out for the Sunday League teams to the soundtrack of Blur's " Parklife ".

In an interview for the South Bank Show, Damon Albarn explained that it was inspired by former Blur manager Dave Balfe, who left Blur's label Food Records and bought a house in the country.

However, the sales for Blur's album The Great Escape were lower than those for Oasis's album ( What's the Story ) Morning Glory.

It was intended to have been the first single from Blur's cancelled second album, the remaining songs of which were placed as B-sides on various singles from their actual second album Modern Life Is Rubbish, except for " Never Clever ", the planned second single release, which was released on the Food compilation album Food 100, along with Popscene in 1997.

He also covered Blur's song Song 2 for Avril Lavigne's Bonez Tour, for which Avril played the drums, while he contributed the vocals ..

Albarn recorded these songs, which are little more than demos, during the US leg of Blur's tour for Think Tank in various hotel rooms.

Wilson can be seen playing guitar for Weezer when they play acoustic versions of songs on tour ; during the Foozer tour, Wilson played lead guitar and sang for the song " Photograph ," which was always followed by him leading a cover of Blur's " Song 2.

For example, Blur's 1997 album was also titled Blur.

*" Jubilee ", a song on Blur's 1994 album Parklife

Spurred on by the media, the groups became engaged in what the NME dubbed on the cover of its 12 August issue the " British Heavyweight Championship " with the pending release of Oasis ' single " Roll With It ", and Blur's " Country House " on the same day.

Dismissed by the band as " the first record we have seen as product ", the tracklisting and release dates of Blur: The Best of were determined on the basis of market research and focus groups conducted by Blur's record label, EMI.

Parklife was released in 1994 and revived Blur's commercial fortunes, with the album's first single, the disco-influenced " Girls & Boys ", receiving acclaim and chart success.

Dismissed by the band as " the first record we have seen as product ", the tracklisting and release dates of Blur: The Best of were determined on the basis of market research and focus groups conducted by Blur's record label, EMI.

Blur's " Country House " outsold Morning Glorys second single, " Roll with It ", 274, 000 copies to 216, 000 during the week.

His last contribution to Blur was a song called " Battery in Your Leg ", the closing song on Blur's 2003 album Think Tank, before leaving the line-up.

After hearing Blur's first single, " She's So High ", Street contacted their manager.

Coincidently, like 15 years before when he heard Blur's " She's so High ", he was in the same way involved with Kaiser Chiefs.

Nicky Wire borrowed the title, " The Everlasting ", from a poem by his brother Patrick Jones, after spending some time trying to think of something similar to Blur's " The Universal " or Joy Division's " The Eternal ".

At one point, Albarn is impressed to see a man ( Graham Coxon ) carrying a placard reading " Modern Life Is Rubbish ", the title of Blur's previous album ; on the reverse is written " End of a Century ", the title of their subsequent single from Parklife.

The episode also features British rock band Blur's " Song 2 ", which plays during the " race " to the stadium.

Blur's new approach was inspired by their tour of the United States in the spring of 1992.

At the end of the week, " Country House " ultimately outsold Oasis ' " Roll With It " by 274, 000 copies to 216, 000, becoming Blur's first number one single.

All the shows were well received ; The Guardians music critic Alexis Petridis gave their performance at Goldsmiths college a full five stars, and wrote that " Blur's music seems to have potentiated by the passing of years ... they sound both more frenetic and punky and more nuanced and exploratory than they did at the height of their fame ".

After Blur's debut album, Leisure, and it's associated tour received mixed reviews, Blur became influenced by British Classic Rock bands.

At the end of the week, " Country House " ultimately outsold Oasis ' " Roll With It " by 274, 000 copies to 216, 000, becoming Blur's first number one single.

All the shows were well received ; The Guardians music critic Alexis Petridis gave their performance at Goldsmiths college a full five stars, and wrote that " Blur's music seems to have potentiated by the passing of years ... they sound both more frenetic and punky and more nuanced and exploratory than they did at the height of their fame ".

It has a dance and indie feel rolled into one with tracks such as Pulp's " Common People " and Blur's " Girls and Boys " along side tracks by The Chemical Brothers, Prodigy and Orbital.

After being threatened into giving up their vigilante activities, Zan and Jayna prove their worth when Lois is thrown from the rooftop of the Daily Planet building by a crooked politician who wants to expose " The Blur's " true identity.

After the Britpop movement waned, Street produced Blur's overdue chart-topping eponymous album, Blur, a totally different work very influenced by American lo-fi indie rock that showed that the band could continue evolving.

It was produced by Stephen Street who also produced Blur's second, third, fourth and fifth albums and is Coxon's most commercially successful album to date.

The song played a part in Blur's supposed feud with fellow Britpop band Oasis at the 1996 BRIT Awards when the Gallagher brothers, Liam and Noel, taunted Blur by singing a drunk rendition of " Parklife " ( with Liam changing the lyrics to " Shite-life " and Noel shouting " Marmite ") when the members of Oasis were collecting the " Best British Album " award, which both bands had been nominated for.