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Blur, one of the most popular British bands to pursue the guitar-pop tradition popularised by The Kinks and The Jam, scored their first UK No.1 album with ‘Parklife’, which spent more than two years on the charts.
Among its 16 songs were the massive UK hit singles: ‘Girls & Boys’, ‘End of a Century’ and ‘To the End’.
The album cover for ‘Parklife’ was among the 10 chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of ‘Classic Album Cover’ postage stamps issued in January 2010.
Other albums chosen by the Royal Mail to celebrate British pop culture were Led Zeppelin ‘Iv’, David Bowie’s ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust’, Pink Floyd’s ‘Division Bell’, Mike Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bell’ and Coldplay’s ‘A Rush of Blood to the Head’.