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The Great Escape (Blur album)

The Great Escape
Studio album by
Blur
Released11 September 1995 (1995-09-11)
RecordedJanuary – May 1995
StudioMaison Rouge and Townhouse, London
GenreBritpop
Length56:56
Label
ProducerStephen Street
Blur chronology
Parklife
(1994) 		The Great Escape
(1995) 		Live at the Budokan
(1996)
Singles from The Great Escape
  1. "Country House"
    Released: 14 August 1995[1]
  2. "The Universal"
    Released: 13 November 1995[2]
  3. "Stereotypes"
    Released: 12 February 1996[3]
  4. "Charmless Man"
    Released: 29 April 1996[4]
  5. "It Could Be You"
    Released: 22 May 1996 (Japan only)

The Great Escape is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Blur. It was released on 11 September 1995 on Food and Virgin Records. The album reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and charted in the top 10 in more than ten countries around the world. Less than a year after the album was released, it was certified triple platinum in the UK.[5] The album received near-universal acclaim on release.

The album continued the band's run of hit singles, with "Country House", "The Universal", "Stereotypes" and "Charmless Man" all reaching the top 10 of the UK singles chart. "Country House" was Blur's first number one hit in the UK, beating Oasis' "Roll with It", in a chart rivalry dubbed "The Battle of Britpop".[6]

The Great Escape is often considered to be the final album of a trio of Britpop albums released by Blur in the mid-1990s,[7] after Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993) and Parklife (1994). With Blur's 1997 self-titled album, the band would change direction and move away from Britpop in favour of a more lo-fi and alternative rock sound.

  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 12 August 1995. p. 39.
  2. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 11 November 1995. p. 31.
  3. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 10 February 1996. p. 27.
  4. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 27 April 1996. p. 35.
  5. ^ BPI Certified Awards Search Archived 24 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine British Phonographic Industry. Note: reader must define "Search" parameter as "Blur".
  6. ^ Beaumont, Mark (14 August 2019). "Blur and Oasis' big Britpop chart battle – the definitive story of what really happened". NME. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference popmatters was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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