Daniel Rachel hears 100 hours of Beatles audio – “it’s like the DNA in a crime scene” Daniel Rachel, old pal of the pod, has just published ‘Like Some Forgotten Dream: What If The Beatles Hadn’t Split Up?’, much of it drawn from his access to the Let It Be tapes and full of enthralling [...]

Oasis: Knebworth Two Nights that Will Live Forever is a Sunday Times Bestseller The inside story of the band's record breaking weekend in August 1996 Photographs by Jill Furmanovsky. Words by Daniel Rachel

I Just Can't Stop It: My Life in The Beat (B Format) ‘The heart and energy [Roger] displayed as The Beat’s perpetually in-motion, ageless MC and voice over decades is fully present in this conversational, positive and grateful memoir’ – Mojo ‘The chatty, unpretentious narrative also documents pop’s gleefully glamourous side’ – Q ‘A fitting document [...]

Daniel Rachel - Author of Don't Look Back in Ange‪r‬ Back to BritPop Listen on Apple Podcasts This week award winning author Daniel Rachel joins me too talk about his book Don't Look Back in Anger: The rise and fall of Cool Britannia told by those who were there. It's recently been re-released in paperback and extremely [...]

  An A grade, A list oral history… through this shifting, twisted narrative, Rachel creates a potent record’ The Sunday Times DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER  The Rise & Fall of Cool Britannia Told by Those Who Were There By Daniel Rachel  Published in paperback by Trapeze opriced £10.99  ‘A rollicking read… a tale of [...]

Jarvis v Jacko: Why the Pulp singer’s stage invasion at The Brits remains a defining Britpop moment Leaping on stage to mock Michael Jackson’s ‘messianic’ performance of ‘Earth Song’ saw Cocker taken to a police station and excited a tabloid frenzy. Looking back it seems more significant than Blur v Oasis, says Ed Power Thursday 18 [...]

Don’t Look Back in Anger has been named A Book of the Year by the Evening Standard and Metro. Reviewing the book in the Evening Standard.,  Nick Curtis wrote, ‘Daniel Rachel’s oral history of Cool Britannia made me miss the honest vulgar excess of the 90s: Oasis, Blur, Blair, TFI Friday, Girl Power & Trainspotting. It [...]

Don't Look Back in Anger has been named as a Book of the Year by the Evening Standard. Reviewing the book,  Nick Curtis wrote, 'Daniel Rachel’s oral history of Cool Britannia made me miss the honest vulgar excess of the 90s: Oasis, Blur, Blair, TFI Friday, Girl Power & Trainspotting. It almost looks like a [...]

'A positive peroid of patriotism, and it's very different from nationalism.' Watch Daniel on BBC Radio 5 Live talking to Chris Warburton about Don't Look Back in Anger: the rise & fall of Cool Britannia     https://twitter.com/i/status/1177567415489613825  

I very much enjoyed reminiscing with Daniel Rachel about the 90s and the extraordinarily rich and diverse period for British culture. The political landscape was also interesting as I recall! Congratulations Daniel on a great book -Tony Blair. Tony Blair Institute @InstituteGC

Interview with Daniel Rachel at 12.30pm including an exclusive audio extrct from Don't Look Back in Anger from Tony Blair   Lisetn again: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008rcb

Challenging conventions  Antony Gormley talks to Tom Sutcliffe about his forthcoming major show at the Royal Academy. The sculptor returns to his enduring interest in the inner dark space of the body and the body’s relation to its surroundings. As well as the famous casts of this own figure, seawater and clay fill one gallery, [...]

Ep 186 - Author Daniel Rachel joins Shaun to chat Cool Britannia : Release Date 23 Sep 2019 Available for 22 days In the final hour author Daniel Rachel joins to chat about his new book - Don't Look Back in Anger - which looks at the rise and fall of Cool Britannia. The nineties [...]

Listen now The era when the nation came together One of the most creative and hedonistic periods of British culture was the nineties: the era of Cool Britannia, born in Thatcher’s Britain and flaunted by Tony Blair. The writer Daniel Rachel looks back at how art, comedy, fashion, film, football and music came together in [...]

'We guarantee, this will change the way you think about the era you lived through.' David Hepworth 'Such a good speaker - precise and thoughtful and funny -  and full of great theories and stories. Daniel's got an enviable knack of being able to explain really complicated analysis very clearly. It's so original to read [...]