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

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

When a big-name pop band gets again together after an extended gap it typically counts as more than a music business occasion or a news headline. For those individuals who fell in love with a gaggle throughout their youth, the reunion can really feel like assembly up with their youthful selves once more. Vocals and sounds that when outlined a mood are instantly again 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 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, clever kind of dissent and, as Coxon advised the Observer, they did not need to say they have been again until they knew what that they had.

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