Blur Rare Interview

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4 жыл бұрын

In 1995, Britain was a country divided between Oasis and Blur, with Oasis seemingly emerging triumphant when (What’s the Story) Morning Glory outsold Blur’s The Great Escape at a rate of 4 to 1. In this interview Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon discuss their surprise at becoming one of the biggest bands in Britain, their frustrations with the media phenomenon that was Britpop and their ambition to move Blur’s sound beyond simple guitar rock and into more esoteric directions.

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@flannerymonaghan-morris4825 3 ай бұрын

I’ve always thought that Damon had quite an angelic/ethereal look to him when he was younger.

@izusblur 4 жыл бұрын

The quality and the length of these vids are incredible, I could listen to Damon speak for days

@TheDailyCrumb Жыл бұрын

this was my favourite interview when i was younger

@murrayballard 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this. I can’t think of another interview that captures Damon and Graham’s relationship better - their different personalities and tastes - the creative tension at Blur’s core that makes them such a special band.

@asyria 2 жыл бұрын

couldn’t have said it better!

@annabanana8700 11 ай бұрын

I’m just so grateful that Damon grew up in the creatively nurturing environment that he did. I’m not sure how things would’ve turned out for him otherwise…

@noursarhan8695 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Such an insightful interview...also I'm very pleased by Graham's positive comments on Essex Dogs, it's actually one my favourite songs by Blur! So hypnotic...

@lauralumaka 4 жыл бұрын

Planet Rock Profiles 1999, thank you!! It would be awesome if you uploaded also the interview with Damon from 1996, it's such a pleasure seeing these old videos in high quality.

@indianajonesrocks19 3 жыл бұрын

This video is fantastic! Great quality and I really love their thoughts on their albums, and the backstories of each of them.

@sadiesarrazin Жыл бұрын

GRAHAM IS SO DAMN GORGEOUS HOLY FU- 🥵😫♥️

@bibizi7066 Ай бұрын

Thanks for Posting 😊so nice, love ❤ Blur

@RussianFanofDamonAlbarn 3 жыл бұрын

wow, thank you for sharing!

@Paul-dw2cl Жыл бұрын

This interview is not from 1996, it is from a later-date. They mention their self-titled album and ‘13,’ which came out in 1997 and 1999 respectively

@onthebasscleff 3 ай бұрын

what's quite sad is how even in this interview you can see just how much graham was struggling with his mental health in the 90s

@TheMLMGold 9 ай бұрын

Damon was the musical adventurer and Graham the purist.

@trimmtrabb23 2 жыл бұрын

Genious!

@kaylabey 4 жыл бұрын

good song is the door to the magic whip for sure :)

@noursarhan8695 4 жыл бұрын

That for the upbeat songs like Ong Ong and Battery In Your Leg for the mellower ones. But Yuko and Hiro from The Great Escape could totally belong to The Magic Whip

@indianajonesrocks19 3 жыл бұрын

Nour Sarhan yeah definitely, because it has that Japanese flavour to it :)

@DansLikeaRockstar 6 ай бұрын

Damon's Elton John era always makes me laugh

@valdotc8559 Жыл бұрын

This interview pretty much shows how the tension between Damon's and Graham's musical feelings made blur so great, at least up until battery in your leg. After that, when Graham came back to blur, he even stated, about the making of the Magic Whip, that he didnt want to "push Damon away" with his guitars (something like that, I dont remember his exact words). So you can see on the magic whip, fools day and under the westway Graham's guitars pretty shy, not like they used to be. Just compare the studio and the live versions of pyongyang.

@lutzkleine-frauns8708 3 ай бұрын

Great Video! Do you have any information on where and when this was broadcast and who conducted the interview?

@hannahzhang6054 Ай бұрын

GRAHAM 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@ChainNonSmoker Жыл бұрын

3:30 well Damon that is what most of us must do year after year.

@supaman6713 Жыл бұрын

You can always do some training to get a better job

@SuperGoatboy84 5 ай бұрын

13:24 'i'd get in my car and drive....' slightly confused by this as the news reported damon to pass his driving test only a few years ago.... ??

@Harvey-krishna 2 ай бұрын

Cool shades

@vaalkirya 3 жыл бұрын

this is 96? i really think this was in the 99s

@noursarhan8695 3 жыл бұрын

You're right, it's in 1999. They mentioned the album 13 which came out that year

@michellemariejanewalsh5302 Жыл бұрын

1999 no for sure. Graham was an alcoholic mess just closing in on walking. And Damon had already well shaved his head to hide the receding hair line

@marianarivera7084 Ай бұрын

@@michellemariejanewalsh5302It doesn’t seem like his hairline was receding, but that it actually was his normal hairline. Also he said he had been wanting to shave his hair for a while. Then the hair grew and it was pretty much the same.

@michellemariejanewalsh5302 Ай бұрын

@@marianarivera7084 how old are you?

@marianarivera7084 Ай бұрын

@@michellemariejanewalsh5302 how old are you?

@glm557 Жыл бұрын

Damon's got that heroin voice here

@the_hacker1955 Жыл бұрын

This interview was shortly after 13 albums days

@glm557 Жыл бұрын

@@the_hacker1955 checks out. the late 90's/early 2000's seemed like a pretty downhill period for him

@cactaceous Жыл бұрын

⁠@@glm557 Not accurate. His bad period was between 96 and 98 when he got on heroin and broke up with Justine. He cleaned up, she didn’t and then the breakup happened which was in late 97. He moved out of their flat and in with Jamie Hewlett late 97 where he stayed partying, fucking Sporty Spice and coming up with Gorillaz. Summer 98 they recorded 13 and he met his girlfriend Suzi. Their daughter was born in mid 99. After that he mostly focused on his daughter and making the Gorillaz demos, the EP and the eventual studio album. He stayed pretty good up until the making of Think Tank and its tour where he and Alex and Dave did a lot of cocaine because Alex was a bad influence.

@glm557 Жыл бұрын

@@cactaceous Half of that is just speculation. Damon has never explicitly stated when he got clean from heroin. I don't know if you've seen any Blur performances from 1999 - Damon is almost always on something.

@cactaceous Жыл бұрын

@@glm557 He still is. Look at the last Gorillaz tour. Either extremely drunk or you can see him progressively getting more and more fucked up as the show goes on which means he ate a weed gummy, which he did the first weekend at Coachella and it was kind of a disaster. Not heroin though.