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 collectively for 16 years. Guitarist Graham Coxon explains how it began with a chance assembly in Hong Kong …

When a big-name pop band gets again together after an extended hole it typically counts as greater than a music business event or a information headline. For these individuals who fell in love with a gaggle throughout their youth, the reunion can feel like meeting up with their younger selves once more. Vocals and sounds that when outlined a temper are all of the sudden 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 of the items in place before 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, clever type of dissent and, as Coxon informed the Observer, they didn't need to say they have been back until they knew what that they had.

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