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Blur’s Dave Rowntree: ‘I still wake at 3am thinking I’ve frittered my life away’

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 conferences have just...

Terry Hall death: Damon Albarn posts touching piano tribute to The Specials

‘Terry, you meant the world to me. I really like you,’ wrote the Blur frontman

Graham Coxon: ‘Music has always been there for me’

The Blur guitarist, 53, on his addictive character, making music as you age and being a Britpop bratI was a brat throughout Britpop. There was so much to rail towards. But I should have been more grateful for my luck and taken care of myself higher a...

How did Seven Nation Army become a terrace anthem – and what links it to Blur and Bernie Sanders?

From arty indie bands to US election knockouts, we be a part of the dots around one of the crucial enduring stadium singalongsDuh duh duh dah duh duh … The lads’s soccer World Cup is underneath means and you’ll probably have heard followers chanting...

World Cup goal celebration songs – ranked!

Fifa has decreed each nation should have a unique music pumped into the stadium once they score. So which workforce has the perfect anthem to robot dance to and which expects their strikers to have fun to a flute solo?Does it matter what music is pla...

‘It was part of the fabric of life’: readers on 70 years of the UK singles chart

From the Tuesday No 1 divulge to Sunday’s Prime 20 rundown, from Blur v Oasis to the glory days of Christmas No 1s: Guardian readers share their relationship with the chartsI grew up listening to Radio 1 – especially the Sunday evening charts, whose...

On the road again... how band reunions can be a victory lap for their generation | Barbara Ellen

I once would have sneered at Pulp and Blur reuniting, however perhaps it’s their means of reclaiming the previousIs it my creativeness or has the music business comeback… made a comeback? Blur have introduced a one-off Wembley stadium show for July 2...