“She's So High” by Blur

"She's So High" is where Blur's recorded story starts: the English band's debut single, out on Food in October 1990 as a double A-side with "I Know", and later the opening track of their 1991 debut album Leisure. All four of them, Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree, share the music credit, Albarn wrote the words, and Steve Lovell produced.

The sleeve, designed by Mel Ramos, shows a naked woman astride a hippopotamus, and the picture came back, blown up, almost ten years later for the Singles Night tour. As Rowntree remembered it, label boss David Balfe fancied a go at directing the video, strung neon rings from the ceiling on wires for helpers to jiggle, and kept yelling that he still hadn't seen the definitive wobble. Albarn's Penguin Books shirt became a cult item. The single stopped at number 48 in the UK.

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