| "Country House" | ||||
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| Single by Blur | ||||
| from the album The Great Escape | ||||
| B-side | "One Born Every Minute" | |||
| Released | 14 August 1995 | |||
| Genre | Britpop | |||
| Length | 3:57 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Stephen Street | |||
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| "Country House" on YouTube | ||||
"Country House" is a song by English alternative rock band Blur. It was released as the lead single from the band's fourth studio album, The Great Escape (1995), on 14 August 1995 by Food and Parlophone. Released on the same day as the Oasis single "Roll with It" – in a chart battle dubbed the "Battle of Britpop" – "Country House" reached number one in the UK Singles Chart (the first of two Blur singles to reach number one, the second being 1997's "Beetlebum").[1] The song is the band's best-selling single, with over 540,000 copies sold as of May 2014.[2] Its music video was directed by Damien Hirst and nominated for Best Video in the 1996 BRIT Awards.
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