To help celebrate Christmas we'vev graphed the ups 'n' downs of the 1998 music world...
nme.com looks back at the year that saw everyone shake their heads at the state of the government and the music industry. To see the full year’s round up Click here
Course, there were also albums by Mercury Rev, Massive Attack, Lo-Fidelity Allstars, Belle And Sebastian, Beastie Boys, Grandaddy, The Delgados and more…
Glastonbury was muddy (again), Ian Brown and Bez got arrested and more…
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