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The often maligned Nineties music scene was in fact an explosion of maverick talents crashing the mainstream. Sylvia Patterson recalls a time when ‘it felt like the freaks and geeks were winning’

As Britpop legends Blur and Pulp take over this summer with comeback tours, Victoria Moss revisits the era’s enduring style legacy

Released on April 20, 1998, Massive Attack's third album Mezzanine sounded like nothing that had come before. 25 years on, it still does

Oasis' Noel Gallagher apparently used to tease his brother Liam over his fear of ghosts by secretly moving his furniture around to make him believe he was being haunted

A re-examination of Pulp's superb This Is Hardcore album as it turns 25

In this hoot of an oral history the stars of 90s chart acts recall how their innocence collided with a cynical music industry

New documentary Britpop: The Decade That Changed Music starts on Channel 5 hears Blur drummer Dave Rowntree admit the band were given their 'last chance' with record company bosses

As the film Meet Me in the Bathroom relives the glory days of the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, fans and musicians recall the sweat, swagger and skinny jeans that made the British scene they inspired even wilder

For those of a certain maturity, the Nineties offered mixed messages. The overthrow of Margaret Thatcher, the ERM debacle and the humiliation by elements in his own party of John Major were all associated with enduring economic misery. The arrival in 1997 of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the independence…