Some individuals speculated that the album [`The Golden D’] was about Damon, however they are all the time in search of an excuse to assume that. I might slip over on some ice one morning and some-one would say, ‘Oh, it’s because he was fascinated by Damon.’ In reality, I don’t spend very much time serious about him. We initially bonded by way of a mutual love of music, and what started as a artistic friendship developed into a state of unspoken brother-hood. Once we wrote music together, it was targeted and intuitive. Outdoors of that we weren’t great conversationalists, and it appeared selfish to anticipate emotional help from each other. No matter different crappy burdens we have been carrying around, they might nor-mally get offloaded elsewhere, onto others. That’s how it’s all the time been between us. We still composed in a lot the same means as we all the time had. Damon would provide you with a track concept and a demo tape, and I might pay attention and attempt to channel what he was getting at and sculpt it right into a memorable music. It was a partnership of equals, by which each of us tried to please the other. Men’s friendships, based mostly largely round banter and mickey-taking, are typically about preserving one another entertained.
Graham Coxon on his friendship with Damon
from Graham’s ebook “Verse, Chorus, Monster!”
Graham’s response to fan’s comment (”Bitterness ages you horribly”)
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