
Don't Look Back in Anger
The Rise and Fall of Cool Britannia
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Daniel Rachel
Read by Paul McGann, Louise Brealey, Tania Rodriguez, Shvorne Marks, Jot Davies, David John, Dean Williamson and Charles Armstrong. Introduced by Daniel Rachel, and featuring audio-exclusive extracts from Daniel's source interviews.
The '90s was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music interwoven into a blooming of national self-confidence. It was the decade of Lad Culture and Girl Power, of Blur vs Oasis. When fashion runways shone with British talent, Young British Artists became household names, football was 'coming home' and British film went worldwide. From Old Labour's defeat in 1992 through to New Labour's historic landslide in 1997, Don't Look Back in Anger chronicles the Cool Britannia age when the country united through a resurgence of patriotism and a celebration of all things British.
But it was also an era of false promises and misplaced trust, when the weight of substance was based on the airlessness of branding, spin and the first stirrings of celebrity culture. A decade that started with hope then ended with the death of the 'people's princess' and 9/11 - an event that redefined a new world order.
Through 67 voices that epitomise the decade - including Tony Blair, John Major, Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn, Tracey Emin, Keith Allen, Meera Syal, David Baddiel, Irvine Welsh and Steve Coogan - we relive the epic highs and crashing lows of one of the most eventful periods in British history. Today, in an age where identity dominates the national agenda, Don't Look Back in Anger is a necessary and compelling historical document.
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An oral history of British pop culture in the 1990s
"I was lucky to witness the rise of Cool Britannia from a distance: across the pond in the United States. As a teen, I considered myself an Anglophile musically, so I’d often devour the UK music magazines to see what was trending there. Alas, it wasn’t the same as actually being there. Daniel Rachel’s Don't Look Back in Anger: The rise and fall of Cool Britannia gave me serious FOMO and got me to practically relive it all over again, but this time, with more detail and context. Going far beyond the best bands of the time (Blur, Suede, Oasis, Pulp) this oral pop history lesson adds a host of participants from the world of UK TV, fashion, literature, music and art that reveal a more complete picture of what it was actually like to be in Britain at the time. Multiple narrators cover the start of the movement with 1988’s Second Summer of Love, when acid house music and drugs fueled illegal rave parties. Cool Britannia is comprehensive, clocking in at 18+ hours, but for those who find the topic interesting, this immersive and brutally honest listen documents perhaps one of the UK’s most influential periods in pop culture when it seemed like everyone wanted to be cool—like Britain."
—Edwin D., Audible Editor
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Lad Culture? LOL!!
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By the end, you’d think everyone interviewed were ‘the good guys’, and everything they did was "just a bit of fun" that also happened to change the world. Spare me. It did make me dislike absolutely everyone in the book, so perhaps that’s a bit of public service. Perhaps that was the intention of the author, to have everyone be absolute pillocks on the record and have that be the rebuke and criticism of the era, but I'm not sure that was worth listening to for 18 hours.
Everyone came off as either deluded or liars
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