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The biggest festival of all time: Donauinselfest DIF 2015

This is the biggest music festival of all time

Some of the biggest indie hits of 1996 including Good Enough, You're Gorgeous, Firestarter, Slight Return and The Day We Caught The Train

The 25 best indie songs of 1996

David Bowie in 1969

How Space Oddity gave David Bowie his first hit

Classic 1995 albums: The Great Escape, (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, The Bends, Elastica, I Should Coco and Different Class.

The 25 best indie albums of 1995

Happy campers: here are our tips to have a great festival experience

20 Festival Hacks you wish you'd known sooner

Paul McCartney through the years: 1964, 1968, 1976, 1984, 2000 and 2019

Paul McCartney's best lyrics

Placebo and their 1996 debut album cover

Who is the boy on the front cover of Placebo's debut album?

Placebo

Cicely Courtneidge and The Queen Is Dead: what's the connection?

Who is the voice at the beginning of The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths?

Radiohead's Thom Yorke with the band's OK Computer album inset

What does the title of Radiohead’s OK Computer mean?

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