March 2012
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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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“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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