Thirty years ago, Britain was experiencing something not seen since the 1960s and we're celebrating it with this special edition on sale now. Britpop was the term coined to describe a resurgence of interest in British guitar bands in particular – and British culture in general – that had started in the early 1990s and peaked around 1996 when Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Suede, Elastica and Supergrass were the biggest acts around and the public couldn’t get enough of them and their antics.