Some people speculated that the album [`The Golden D’] was about Damon, but they are always...

Some individuals speculated that the album [`The Golden D’] was about Damon, however they're 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 excited about Damon.’ In reality, I don’t spend very much time enthusiastic about him. We initially bonded by means of a mutual love of music, and what began as a artistic friendship developed into a state of unspoken brother-hood. Once we wrote music collectively, it was targeted and intuitive. Outdoors of that we weren’t nice conversationalists, and it seemed selfish to anticipate emotional help from one another. No matter different crappy burdens we have been carrying round, 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 method as we all the time had. Damon would provide you with a music concept and a demo tape, and I might pay attention and attempt to channel what he was getting at and sculpt it into a memorable track. It was a partnership of equals, during which each of us tried to please the other. Males’s friendships, based mostly largely around banter and mickey-taking, are typically about holding each other entertained.

Graham Coxon on his friendship with Damon
from Graham’s guide “Verse, Chorus, Monster!”