Chords for Justine Frischmann talks to John Harris about Brit Pop

_ _ Justine Frischmann has a crucial role in the Brit pop story.
[Gb] Not only did she have
her own band, Elastica, but prior to that she [Ab] was a guitarist in Suede and the
girlfriend of their lead singer, Brett Anderson.
_ [Gb] She met Brett at University
College London while they were studying architecture [Bbm] and he had just started to
write songs with a particularly [A] English quality about them.
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So what was it in [Bb] Brett's lyrics that back [Db] then even kind of set [Ab] Suede apart?
What else was around?
[Eb] There was a kind of vision [Gb] of a almost character [Bbm] like
Prufrock, you know T.S. Eliot's Prufrock, a kind of [Eb] downtrodden Englishman with [Bb] an
incredible kind of _ [Db] romantic _ interior [Ab] life.
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[Bb] _ _ [Bbm] I knew what I wanted.
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[Ebm] More than anything I
knew I [Bb] didn't want [Db] and you know just from being in Suede fields I [Bb] knew I
didn't want to be [C] anything with guitar solo.
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_ [D] _ _ [Db] _ [F] _ [E] Mike Smith, who was _ Blur's publisher at EMI and Elastica's publisher, _ [A] _ gave us [E] this
tape and said, you know, it's the next big thing and [A] me and Damon had listened to it
and we were just [E] like, this is rubbish, it was [A] cigarettes and alcohol and I was like, it [E] just
sounds baggy, it's rubbish and Damon as [A] usual kind of hating anything that could
possibly be threatening in any way, he was just [E] like, yeah it's you know [A] shit and
stuff and we called up [Gb] Mike, we were like, it's rubbish, don't sign [A] it. _
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_ _ I [E] remember seeing the [Dbm] term Britpop, I think maybe it was the NME [E] and just
having this horrible [A] feeling that it was gonna [E] catch on.
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