Graham Coxon on the Blur reunion: ‘Pop doesn’t have to be a fleeting thing’

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The former Britpop superstars stunned everybody by saying their first album collectively for 16 years. Guitarist Graham Coxon explains the way it started with a chance assembly in Hong Kong …

When a big-name pop band will get back collectively after an extended gap it typically counts as more than a music business occasion or a information headline. For those individuals who fell in love with a gaggle throughout their youth, the reunion can feel like meeting up with their youthful selves once more. Vocals and sounds that when defined a temper are instantly back in foreign money.

So the members of Blur – singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bass player Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree – trod very rigorously and quietly as they put all the pieces in place earlier than going public with news of their album The Magic Whip, the primary they've made as a four-piece for 16 years. In the 1990s their band stood for a cocky, intelligent type of dissent and, as Coxon advised the Observer, they didn't need to say they have been back until they knew what that they had.

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