# The shameless age of Britpop in ‘the wildest year of the 90s’

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Podcast: [Word In Your Ear](https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-4162240)
Published: 2026-04-08T19:53:19+00:00
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## Resource

Dominic Mohan saw Britpop on the inside from the showbiz desk of the Sun in the days when it sold 4.5m copies, a series of heated memories recorded in ‘1996: My Backstage Pass to the Wildest Year of Britain’s Wildest Decade’, a lost age of hedonism, stupidity, drunkenness and creativity. He makes a compelling case in this very funny and colourful podcast which stumbles into …   … the advice David Hepworth gave him when he was 16   … Euro 96 and headlines you couldn’t run now   … how the deaths of Kurt Cobain and John Smith changed the picture   … doorstepping Phil Collins’ ex-wife   … the wreath for Noel Gallagher “the fat dancer from Take That” sent to the Sun   … Cool Britannia and that brief love affair between music and politics    … on the dancefloor at the Labour Conference with Mo Mowlam, John Prescott and Chris Evans   … Knebworth 1996, the perfect marriage of alternative music and club culture with a £250,000 bar bill   … the debt Pulp, Oasis and Blur owe Ray Davies - “less the Godfather of Britpop, more a concerned uncle”   … is it hard to identify a new zeitgeist when people don’t congregate as much?   … the ‘reverse-ferret’ from American culture towards bespectacled blokes from Sheffield   … the shameless age before people public apology   … how the post-Spice Girls TV talent shows soaked up the budgets and column inches   … and Madonna dancing with Dennis Hopper.   Order copies of ‘1996’ here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/1996-Backstage-Wildest-Britains-Decade/dp/B0FZBZHPNR   The Barbican Show curated by Dominic: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/event/1996-a-celebration-of-the-wildest-year-of-britains-wildest Help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon…

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