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B is for Blur
The year is 1994 and I am sat in my friend Tracey’s living room, in full on grunge-era floral skirt and Doc Martens combo waiting for a Red Dwarf repeat to come on. Suddenly, from Tracey’s cool older brother’s room I hear a sound I’d never heard before and I fall in love. Not with Tracey’s brother, I hasten to add, but with the swirling guitar sound and falsetto backing vocals of Star Shaped, from Blur's 1993 album Modern Life is Rubbish. From that moment on, I was hooked. My illicit tape…