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Heidi Harley
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9 months ago
(Parlophone)Nostalgic melancholy fills Blur’s ninth studio release, a courageous album that exhibits the band have one thing germane to say about getting previous‘We’re taking down the scaffolds very soon,” sings Damon Albarn, halfway via Barbaric, p...
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Heidi Harley
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9 months ago
(Parlophone)Nostalgic melancholy fills Blur’s ninth studio release, a courageous album that exhibits the band have one thing germane to say about getting previous‘We’re taking down the scaffolds very quickly,” sings Damon Albarn, midway via Barbaric,...
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Heidi Harley
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9 months ago
Blur surprised a crowd at Wembley Stadium for the first time within the rock band’s historical past on Saturday night time, July eight.
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Heidi Harley
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9 months ago
Wembley Stadium, LondonThe enduring friendship between Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree shines by way of in a set that veers from lairy capers to bittersweet balladsHas anyone ever been extra excited to headline Wembley Stadiu...
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Heidi Harley
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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 high quality artwork at Goldsmiths, quit...
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Heidi Harley
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10 months ago
Ahead of the pageant’s return to Worthy Farm, Mark Beaumont picks a few of Glastonbury’s biggest ever music moments
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Heidi Harley
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11 months ago
As they return with their first new music since 2015, we price one of the best of a band who ponder heartache, London, fame and more – and used Britpop to ponder BritishnessThe problem with Blur’s fourth album The Great Escape could be that it captur...
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Heidi Harley
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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 appears to be reflecting on the band’s career pathThere are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There are the re...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
Mark Sheehan, guitarist for Irish pop band The Script, has died after a quick sickness.
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Heidi Harley
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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 few weeks before Christmas, and the planning conferences have simply fini...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
‘Terry, you meant the world to me. I really like you,’ wrote the Blur frontman
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
The Blur guitarist, 53, on his addictive character, making music as you age and being a Britpop bratI used to be a brat throughout Britpop. There was so much to rail towards. However I should have been more grateful for my luck and taken care of myse...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
From arty indie bands to US election knockouts, we be a part of the dots around some of the enduring stadium singalongsDuh duh duh dah duh duh … The lads’s football World Cup is beneath method and you’ll doubtless have heard fans chanting the riff fr...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
Fifa has decreed each nation ought to have a unique music pumped into the stadium once they score. So which staff 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 playe...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
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 – particularly the Sunday evening charts, whos...