Andrew Harrison
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Appearances Over Time
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Who?
No shade on Mick out of Simply Red, but it wasn't the counterculture.
Who's at the top of the charts?
It's Terrence Trent Darby.
Again, no shade, but it's not the counterculture.
And Select and Mojo are the counterculture.
They are, and this is what you hear in Misfits by Pulp, we're the outsiders and we're going to take it over, right?
That's what was in, that was what Britpop, the best of Britpop.
I'm quite glad that I left in 1995 before Britpop went shit.
Because it very rapidly turned from we are the outsiders breaking in to we're inside now and we're putting the drawbridge up again.
Oh, what a funny day that was.
So The Scream, The Scream, this is June 1992.
So The Scream are quite colossal.
They're still riding the whole Scream and Delica thing, having united, looking like the Rolling Stones, with taking rave drugs.
And it's very, very popular.
I can't remember whose idea it was, but we thought what a good idea it would be to get the contemporary Scuzzbag Rolling Stones together with the contemporary most beautiful woman in the world and see what happens.
So we negotiated this at great length.
It took ages and ages.
And by the way, I've only just remembered, the night before it was due to happen in some hotel in Kensington,
The PR rang up and said, the Scream don't want to do it.