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In April 1993, the cover of the British Music Magazine Select featured a photo of

Swadelead singer Brett Anderson. He's pictured in front of a Union Jack backdrop, with one hand

behind his head and another on the waistband of his black leather pants. Above Anderson are the

bold words, Yanks Go Home. Inside the magazine, an article about the state of guitar music in the

UK, asked the question, who do you think you're kidding, Mr. Cobain?

The piece was written by journalist Stuart McCone

in the style of an angry letter to Nirvana's frontman.

In it, he says, go home and take your miserable grungeware

and your self-obsessed lacquer bands with you.

No one knew it at the time,

but this rallying call was the beginning of a movement

that would sweep first through music

and then practically every aspect of British culture.

I'm Kathy Kinsora, and this is History of the 90s,

a podcast about a decade that changed the world.

Over the next two episodes,

we're looking back at the rise of Brit Pop and Cool Britannia. Journalists Journalist Stuart McConey was inspired to write that 1993 manifesto

because he was tired of the attention grunge music was getting in his home country.

Macone believed there were so many bands from the UK that were way cooler and making

far better music. Bands like Swade, St. Aetian, pulp, denim, and the O'Tours. In his article slash

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