At the premiere for the Blur documentary “No Place Left To Run”, Damon Albarn admitted the making of Blur -their usually successful brit breakthrough was a blur due to heavy heroin intake. “Beetlebum” was in fact about the drug. “That whole period of a lot of people’s lives was fairly muddied by heroin. It’s in that place. A lot of stuff was at that time,” he said.
He also liked Oasis to school bullies and admitted it was Albarn who decided to release “Country House” on the same day as Oasis’ “Roll With It” setting up the greatest moment in Britpop history. “Noel used to take the —- out of me constantly and it really, really hurt at the time. Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.”