David Honigmann

Who’s still flying the flag for Britpop?

Alex James’s embrace of the term distinguishes him from his contemporaries. Miranda Sawyer reminds us of how much of the best 1990s music fell outside Britpop’s retromania

Blur in Tokyo in November 1974. [Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images]

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