Pulp ’s Jarvis Cocker and Nick Banks reflect on the second summer of Britpop and look forward to the new year

So, it’s 1997 again,” announces Robbie Williams to a crowd of hardcore fans at Camden’s sticky-floored, 600-capacity Dingwalls. Squint and you could take him at face value: there are no mobile phones

Deep Purple’s longest-serving guitarist Steve Morse on the records, artists and gigs of lasting significance to him.

I WAS dressed in my bright pink pyjamas decorated with cartoon sloths. In my defence, they are extremely comfortable. I was holding a hair curling tong like a microphone and belting out “Baby One More

The good doctor’s final act and most soulful singles.

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