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Heidi Harley
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9 months ago
Wembley Stadium, LondonThe enduring friendship between Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree shines via in a set that veers from lairy capers to bittersweet balladsHas anybody ever been extra excited to headline Wembley Stadium tha...
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Heidi Harley
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9 months ago
The musician from Blur and the Waeve on the magic of Spain’s Alhambra, chip butties and his love of jazz biographiesGraham Coxon was born in West Germany in 1969 and raised in Derby and later Essex. He studied advantageous artwork at Goldsmiths, quit...
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Heidi Harley
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10 months ago
Ahead of the pageant’s return to Worthy Farm, Mark Beaumont picks a few of Glastonbury’s biggest ever music moments
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Heidi Harley
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10 months ago
As they return with their first new music since 2015, we price the perfect of a band who ponder heartache, London, fame and more – and used Britpop to ponder BritishnessThe issue with Blur’s fourth album The Great Escape is perhaps that it captured t...
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Heidi Harley
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11 months ago
(Parlophone)The primary single from upcoming album The Ballad of Darren chugs along to a motorik beat, rising to an anthemic chorus that seems to be reflecting on the band’s career pathThere are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There are the re...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
Mark Sheehan, guitarist for Irish pop band The Script, has died after a quick sickness.
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
Drummer, lawyer, composer, politician… Blur’s busiest member on the troubled childhood that influenced his new solo album, Radio Songs, and the band’s summer time reunion gigsA few weeks before Christmas, and the planning meetings have simply complet...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
‘Terry, you meant the world to me. I really like you,’ wrote the Blur frontman
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
The Blur guitarist, 53, on his addictive character, making music as you age and being a Britpop bratI was a brat during Britpop. There was so much to rail towards. However I ought to have been more grateful for my luck and taken care of myself higher...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
From arty indie bands to US election knockouts, we be a part of the dots around one of the enduring stadium singalongsDuh duh duh dah duh duh … The lads’s soccer World Cup is underneath means and also you’ll possible have heard fans chanting the riff...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
Fifa has decreed each nation ought to have a unique music pumped into the stadium once they score. So which staff has the perfect anthem to robot dance to and which expects their strikers to have fun to a flute solo?Does it matter what music is playe...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
From the Tuesday No 1 divulge to Sunday’s Prime 20 rundown, from Blur v Oasis to the glory days of Christmas No 1s: Guardian readers share their relationship with the chartsI grew up listening to Radio 1 – particularly the Sunday evening charts, whos...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
I as soon as would have sneered at Pulp and Blur reuniting, but perhaps it’s their means of reclaiming the previousIs it my imagination or has the music business comeback… made a comeback? Blur have announced a one-off Wembley stadium show for July 2...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
‘We actually love enjoying these songs and thought it’s about time we did it once more,’ stated Damon Albarn
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
That includes Frankie Knuckles, Geri Halliwell and Goldie, a brand new e-book focuses on the icons and pioneers of the 90s and 00s music scene Continue reading...