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“But the success that came with Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995) was...”
– 2012 Brit Awards Programme
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“A depressing tour of the States led to homesickness, which Damon decided to deal...”
– 2012 Brit Awards Programme
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““We’ve made some lovely music together,” says frontman Damon...”
– 2012 Brit Awards Programme
February 2012
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i’ve gotten a bit of a big influx of followers here lately and i just wanted to say thank you and also for all of the very kind messages you’ve been sending as well! i try to respond to all of them, but i know that message system on here can be a bit unreliable, so i just wanted to let you all know i appreciate them. xx
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“Coxon is fidgety during his interview, full of nervous energy. As soon as...”
– New Music Monthly, April 1999.
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Q: What album made you want to write songs?
GC: I played sax with Damon [Albarn} on some of his songs that he'd done. It was obvious he could write songs, he seemed to be a totally natural talent, but as far as I knew he hadn't listed to that much music. He'd heard 2-Tone, The Jame and his mum played a lot of Dylan. SO there were a lot of songs there, but I wasn't really aware that he was a music fan. He was in his own world. We both got into Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden. That was a big album for us.
Q: Did that lay the foundations for Blur?
GC: The Velvet Underground's Loaded definitely did. I'd moved to London and Damon was a tea-boy in a studio so we took advantage of that. It was a drum machine, Damon hammering a bass or piano and me on guitar. You could tell The Velvet Underground was an influence just from the drum machine, it was doing the Moe Tucker beat. Damon was going through a period of madness. He would stay up all night tinkling away on a piano and write some pretty insane stuff. That was when the seed of Blur started.
Graham Coxon, The Soundtrack of My Life. Q, April 2012.
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“As a rule, Thursday night was party night. In Devon, we would jump in the sea...”
– Ben Hiller, on recording Think Tank. Q, April 2012.
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January 2012
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Download: Dazed and Confused, July 1999 →
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Sam Taylor-Wood: So is it nice being a pop star?
Graham Coxon: It is for a bit. I've never seen myself as a pop star. I think I was a musician who partied quite a lot when we first got signed. It kinda came with the new freedom of being away from home and living in London and there's lots to do. But eventually that's pretty boring and it could lead to...
Sam Taylor-Wood: Feeling a bit displaced.
Graham Coxon: It can lead to deep dangers, drinking too much, and I think you naturally grow out of that. Now I just want the calmest life possible. It's like you have a dream when you're eight to go on Top of the Pops and then, by the time you're 22, all those strange little dreams, you've done 'em. And in your 20s, you've done everything you wanted to have done, you've achieved it all, and then you go, "What the fuck do I do now?"
Sam Taylor-Wood: I know exactly that feeling.
Graham Coxon: Then you freak out and you've gotta have some more dreams. There was this great big gap in my 20s, when I really didn't know what I wanted. When I got to my late 20s I suddenly matured enough to realise that I just wanted a really good relationship, to feel stable and to be calm. It's a lot harder than just getting on TV, to be stable and happy.
- Dazed and Confused, July 1999
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Kathy Burke: Which member of the band have you known the longest?
Damon Albarn: Graham. I've known him since I was 12. We've just had a book written about us and it was really strange digging out all the old photographs.
Kathy Burke: Did he always wear glasses?
Damon Albarn: No, not always. He discovered them in art school. They went with the look. It was the Smiths, really. Morrissey; we were all absolutely into Morrissey. We even became vegetarians. He had a massive effect on us.
- Dazed and Confused, July 1999
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