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Damon Albarn -
4 months ago
Blur’s ninth album is a perfect combination of middle-aged regret with swooning pop, a strong career summation• See the other top 50 albums• More on the best music of 2023• More on the best culture of 2023Previous to the discharge of The Ballad of Da...
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General Info on Blur -
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 superb artwork at Goldsmiths, quitting a...
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General Info on Blur -
11 months ago
(Parlophone)The first 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 resi...
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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 couple of weeks before Christmas, and the planning meetings have simply f...
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Damon Albarn -
1 year ago
Band will headline on the London stadium on eight July for their 35th anniversary, supported by Slowthai, Self Esteem and JockstrapBlur have introduced a one-off 2023 present to take place at London’s Wembley stadium on 8 July. Will probably be the l...
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General Info on Blur -
1 year ago
In a disarmingly candid memoir, the Blur guitarist relates the insanity of fame and habit, his unease with Britpop, and how people led him to greener pasturesAs Blur bossed the 90s, and Damon Albarn’s bouncy songs about Englishness came to exemplify...
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5 years ago
Blur’s guitarist reflects on the state of pop music, swearing, and why he’s glad he doesn’t need to wear makeup any moreGraham Coxon enters the studio via a thick cloud of vapour. “Banana and yoghurt,” he declares cheerfully. I had anticipated Coxon...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
Back in Hong Kong, where they recorded their album The Magic Whip, Damon, Graham, Alex and Dave speak about falling out and making up, the state of British pop music and why 90s Britpop was a wasted opportunityHong Kong in July is usually a disorient...
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Graham Coxon -
8 years ago
The singer-songwriter on the return of Blur, the loneliness in Edward Hopper’s work, BBC TV satire W1A and the inspirational environment of LiverpoolSinger-songwriter Thea Gilmore grew up in Oxford earlier than leaving house in her teenagers to work...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
Blur’s made-in-Hong-Kong album, their first for 12 years, overflows with pretty songs and touchingly reveals a band now fortunately reconciledThere are two sorts of band re-formation. The first is so compellingly simple that the “basic” bands that ha...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
The Blur guitarist is among the contributors to an album of songs associated with the good English people singer to be released for Document Store Day. Have a pay attention and let us know what you assumeShirley Collins’s status as one of many nice f...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
The previous Britpop superstars stunned everyone by saying their first album collectively for 16 years. Guitarist Graham Coxon explains the way it started with a chance meeting in Hong Kong …When a big-name pop band gets again together after an exten...
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Graham Coxon -
9 years ago
The Magic Whip options the complete Blur lineup of Albarn, Coxon, Rowntree and James, and followers can have fun with a June gig in London’s Hyde Park10 of the best: Damon Albarn tracksFans of Britpop pioneers Blur had cause to have fun on 19 Februar...