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Graham Coxon Biography

Graham Leslie Coxon (born 12 March 1969) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and painter who came to prominence as a founding member of the rock band Blur. As the group's lead guitarist and secondary vocalist, Coxon is featured on all eight of Blur's studio albums, from 1991's Leisure to The Magic Whip (2015), despite being absent from the group from 2002 to 2008 owing to a dispute with the other members. He has also led a solo career since 1998. As well as being a musician, Coxon is a visual artist: he designed the cover art for all his solo albums as well as Blur's 13 (1999).

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It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.

Being Sad, Ridiculous, Shoes, Sitting, Worry

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

Age, Ages, Band, Early, English, Focus

It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

Clothes, Influence, Music, Play

I’m constantly embarrassed. I fidget and twist my hair and pull weird faces and stutter. Some days I feel quite confident, then others there’s a microscopic flaw about myself physically, which will make me embarrassed to walk the streets.

Constantly, Embarrassed, Faces, Hair, Streets, Twists

I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album. . . so I took it as a sign to leave.

Calmer, Changed, Daughter, Drinking, Life, Mother

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy. . . I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

Fussy, Ginger, Lemon, Lemons, Singers

There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.

Art, Right, Students, Teacher, Thing

I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am.

Boots, Jackets, Jeans, Lunatic, Shoes

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

Microphone, Microphones, Plank, Scott, Singers, Standing Alone

I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.

Beautiful, Boots, Immensely, Looked, Shoes, Things

I love the magic of the studio.

Love, Magic, Studio, Studios

I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.

Carey, Like, Mariah, Singers, Think, Thinking

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London. . . or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

Band, Bands, Leeds, London, Think, Thinking

Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

London, Mean, Music, Pride, Thinking

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

Berlin, Empty, Germany, Good, Imposing, Munich

Jack Daniels makes us all puke.

Daniels, Jack, Jack Daniels, Puke

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

Exciting, Hacienda, London, Place, Places To Go, Stuff

It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity.

Insecurity, Loose, People, Thinking, Total

I don't think of myself as a singer really.

Singer, Singers, Think, Thinking

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

Faster, Guitar, Jam, Play

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