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The Great Escape (30th Anniversary Edition)
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The Britpop mania anniversaries continue, this time with a reissue of Blur's timeless album - The Great Escape. Featuring Country House, The Universal, Stereotypes and Charmless Man, The Great Escape is a sharp, satirical portrait of mid-90s Britain. To mark 30 years, the album is being reissued on double half-speed remastered vinyl with extra B-sides and rarities from the era. - Flying Out
The Great Escape turns 30 this year and to celebrate, this seminal album from one of Britain’s most beloved bands will be available in a very special, brand new Half Speed Mastered Double-Disc Coloured Vinyl Edition; out 12th December via Parlophone.
The Great Escape (30th Anniversary Edition) features the 15-track standard album (Disc One); as well as a collection of rare B-sides and bonus tracks (Disc Two) from the album era, several of which are previously unreleased on vinyl; available on yellow and turquoise vinyl and beautifully housed in a gatefold cover sleeve featuring all-new expanded artwork by artist and designer Tony Hung.
Released to widespread critical acclaim on 11th September 1995, The Great Escape is blur’s fourth studio album, the follow-up to Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree’s international breakthrough release, Parklife (1994). Featuring a run of hit singles - ‘Country House’, ‘The Universal’, ‘Stereotypes’, and ‘Charmless Man’ - The Great Escape debuted at #1 on the UK Album Charts and went on to achieve triple Platinum status in the UK. The four singles have combined UK sales of over 1.8m, with over 61m YouTube views and combined global streams of 335m+ to date.