( The Chart Show announced the winner the day before, though the show's chart was unofficial) 'Country House' topped the UK Singles Chart, selling 270,000 copies, compared to 220,000 sold by 'Roll with It', which came in at number two. On 20 August 1995 the charts were officially announced. It is Elizabethan, built around the start of the 17th century. It is now home of Vogue writer Laura Bailey, and is the former home of the 1956 High Sheriff of Oxfordshire. The external shots of the video are at Pyrton Manor, Pyrton, in east Oxfordshire, west of junction 6 of the M40, near the B4009 and Watlington. It was nominated for Best Video in the 1996 BRIT Awards. It features pastiches of-or tributes to- Benny Hill (Lucas' doctor chasing scantily clad young women culminating in the entry of the milk van of Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)) and Queen's 1975 video for ' Bohemian Rhapsody'. The band appears in the video alongside British comic actor Matt Lucas and models Sara Stockbridge, Jo Guest and Vanessa Upton. It features the band and a businessman (played by Keith Allen) in a flat with the band playing a board game called 'Escape from the Rat Race' before they become trapped in the game where they are with farm animals and other people before appearing in the flat again. The music video for 'Country House' was directed by artist Damien Hirst, who had attended Goldsmiths, University of London, with members of Blur. Pyrton Manor in Oxfordshire, the setting for external shots in the music video 1 spot while 'Roll with It' came in at No. In the end, 'Country House' won the 'battle', attaining the No. The British media had already reported an intense rivalry between the two bands and this clash of releases was seen as a battle for the number one spot, dubbed the ' Battle of Britpop'. 'Country House' received a great deal of media attention when Blur's label Food Records moved the original release date to the same day as Oasis's ' Roll with It'. The cover art features a horizontally-flipped image of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria. The song is about a man who retires to an expensive country house to escape the pressures of the city. The house was advertised in 2015 for £2m.

He moved with his wife Helen and their children aged 2 and 4, when he was 36. The house had 4 acres of land, nine bedrooms with five en-suite. The house of David Balfe ĭavid Balfe moved to The Bury in 1994 at Church End, Barton-le-Clay in southern Bedfordshire off the A6. In an interview for the South Bank Show, Damon Albarn explained that it was inspired by former Blur manager Dave Balfe, who left Blur's label Food Records and bought a house in the country.

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