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 a chance assembly in Hong Kong …

When a big-name pop band will get again collectively after an extended gap it typically counts as greater than a music business event or a information headline. For those individuals who fell in love with a gaggle throughout their youth, the reunion can feel like meeting up with their younger selves again. Vocals and sounds that when defined a temper are out of the blue again in foreign money.

So the members of Blur – singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bass participant Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree – trod very rigorously and quietly as they put all the pieces in place earlier than going public with news of their album The Magic Whip, the primary they have made as a four-piece for 16 years. In the 1990s their band stood for a cocky, intelligent type of dissent and, as Coxon informed the Observer, they didn't need to say they have been again until they knew what that they had.

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