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Michael Cragg, journalist and author
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Michael Cragg is a prolific music journalist for The Guardian, The Observer, Vogue and more, and as of last year, the published author of Reach for the Stars, an oral history of the mind-boggling period of British pop music that flourished between 1996 and 2006.
We discuss the heady confluence of factors that lead to an era bookended by the Spice Girls and the X Factor, Michael's own complicated relationship with music and his queerness, and Xenomania's contributions to the UK pop canon.
We also discuss music by Girls Aloud, Björk, and George Michael.
You can follow Michael on Instagram here, and his Spotify companion playlist to the book here. Purchase Reach for the Stars (now available in paperback) at your favourite independent bookseller.
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