Live at the BBC 10" single
Blur
- 10"
- Label
- Parlophone
Twenty five years after the release of blur’s seminal album Parklife, Parlophone Records are releasing a 1994 BBC Radio 1 live session, available from Friday 2nd August.
Featuring 4 tracks – Girls & Boys, Jubilee, Trouble In The Message Centre, Lot 105 – taken from a Mark Radcliffe Radio 1 session, recorded live at the BBC in Manchester on 7th March 1994, just weeks ahead of Parklife’s release on 25th April.
About Parklife:
The third studio album from blur, Parklife was released to critical acclaim on 25th April 1994, reaching #1 on the UK album charts and garnering four smash hit singles ‘Girls & Boys’, ‘End of a Century’, ‘Parklife’ and ‘To the End’, returning blur to prominence at the very heart of the British music scene
Described as “an epoch-defining record” (AllMusic) which “captured the mid-'90s zeitgeist” (BBC), the album explores themes of British life and identity, securing a cultural significance that endures to this day. Parklife was nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Prize and 1995 saw blur take home four BRIT Awards, including Best British Album