The Universal

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"The Universal" is a song by English rock band Blur and is featured on their fourth studio album, The Great Escape (1995). It was released on 13 November 1995 by Food Records and Parlophone as the second single from that album, charting at number five on the UK Singles Chart and number 12 in both Iceland and Ireland. In keeping with the song's science fiction theme, the single's cover art is an allusion to the opening shot of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and alludes to the song's lyrical hook (it really, really could happen), whilst the music video, directed by Jonathan Glazer, is a tribute to the film A Clockwork Orange, with the band dressed up in costumes similar to Alex and his droogs. Both films were directed by Stanley Kubrick.

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