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“I didn’t think that Oasis were very good songwriters. This obsession with Britishness just didn’t really compute with us”: Placebo on drugs, Bowie and standing out from Britpop ‘like a sore thumb’

Thursday October 2, 2025. 01:00 PM , from Keyboard Magazine

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