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

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The previous Britpop superstars stunned everyone by saying their first album together for 16 years. Guitarist Graham Coxon explains the way it began with an opportunity meeting in Hong Kong …

When a big-name pop band will get again together after an extended hole it typically counts as more than a music business event or a news headline. For those people who fell in love with a gaggle throughout their youth, the reunion can feel like assembly up with their younger selves once more. Vocals and sounds that when outlined a temper are all of the sudden 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 of the pieces in place before going public with news of their album The Magic Whip, the first they have made as a four-piece for 16 years. In the 1990s their band stood for a cocky, clever type of dissent and, as Coxon advised the Observer, they did not need to say they have been again till they knew what that they had.

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