Graham Coxon
Graham Coxon (* March 12, 1969 in Rinteln as Graham Leslie Coxon ) is lead guitarist and co-founder of the British band Blur as well as a solo musician and painter .
Life
The son of the army musician Bob Coxon and his wife Pauline was born in the Rinteln Military Hospital. His father was posted to the Air Force's Worcester And Sherwood Foresters Regiment. The family lived temporarily in Berlin-Spandau , near the local war crimes prison , and in Münster . He has another sister, Hayley. At the age of five he and his family moved to Derbyshire to live with his grandfather before moving to Colchester three years later . The young Coxon was musically influenced by his parents: Beethoven , The Beatles - especially Rubber Soul - and his father's clarinet.
At the age of twelve he learned the saxophone and guitar and played drums as a self-taught . He was inspired by 2-tone music and the band The Jam . At this time he attended Stanway Comprehensive School, where he also met Damon Albarn , with whom he later founded Blur . In the band he was the youngest member of the band.
On March 7, 2000, Coxon's girlfriend at the time, the Swede Anna Norlander, gave birth to their daughter Pepper Bäck Troy . However, the couple separated in mid-2001. In the fall of that year, Coxon sought treatment for alcoholism ; a relapse in 2002 contributed to his leaving Think Tank Blur while recording the album . Coxon currently lives alternately in London and a house in Kent . In late 2008 he returned to Blur.
Career
Blur
He shaped the idiosyncratic sound of the first six studio albums and was also the singer of You're So Great from the album Blur for the first time in 1997 . His most popular contribution to Blur to date was Coffee and TV on the 1999 album 13 . In 2002 he fell out with the band and finally left them. Rumors of a comeback have accumulated since 2005, but were denied until an interview with bassist Alex James in January 2007. In this interview, James said that the chances for a reunion are relatively good, even if no commitments have yet been made. In July 2009 the reunited band actually gave two acclaimed concerts in London's Hyde Park - with Coxon.
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Coxon had already released three solo albums as a member of Blur. His first album The Sky Is Too High was released in 1998 under his own label Transcopic , which he founded with Jamie Davis that same year. This album was followed by The Golden D (1999) with covers of the Mission-of-Burma classics Fame And Fortune and That's When I Reach For My Revolver , as well as the thoughtful album Crow Sit On Blood Tree in 2001 . In 2002 he released the LP The Kiss Of Morning . You can find the single Escape Song on it . Stephen Street produced the following two albums, Happiness In Magazines and Love Travels at Illegal Speeds . In 2006, Coxon released a new recording of their song Hurry Up Harry with the punk band Sham 69, entitled Hurry Up England - The People's Anthem . The song reached number 10 on the UK charts. In July 2007 he collaborated with Paul Weller for his single This Old Town , which reached number 39 in the British charts. In 2009, the concept album The Spinning Top , which was again dominated by folk and acoustic guitars, followed , while Coxon's preference for independent and noise rock emerged on A + E, which was released in 2012 .
In 2017 he was responsible for the soundtrack of the eight-part series The End of the F *** ing World . In 2020, Coxon recorded a soundtrack album for the Netflix in-house production I Am Not Okay With This with the teenage girl Tatyana Richaud . On the soundtrack, the songs are performed as pieces by Bloodswitch , the fictional favorite group of the two main characters.
Visual artist
Graham Coxon studied at Goldsmiths College in London with contemporaries such as Sam Taylor-Wood , Damien Hirst , Michael Landy and Abigail Lane . His works include the CD covers of his solo albums, as well as the album and single covers of 13 of Blur. At the end of October 2004, more private works were exhibited at an art exhibition in London.
In 2005 he designed the cover for the album The Girl Who Couldn't Fly by British folk musicians Kate Rusby .
Equipment
Probably the most popular guitar model played by Graham Coxon is the Fender Telecaster , which he used in various versions on numerous blur and solo recordings. In 2011 Fender released a signature model under the name Fender Graham Coxon Telecaster .
Furthermore, Coxon used a Gibson Les Paul , especially in the early phase of Blur, and later in his career a Gibson SG , a Burns Sonic , a Rickenbacker 330 , a Fender Jaguar , Fender Jazzmaster and Fender Musicmaster and a Gibson ES-335 .
He played on acoustic guitars a. a. a Gibson J-160E and a Martin OM-28.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
 UK
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| 1998 | The Sky Is Too High |
UK31 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: August 10, 1998
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| 2000 | The Golden D |
UK81 (1 week) UK |
First published: June 12, 2000
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| 2001 | Crow Sit on Blood Tree | - |
First published: August 6, 2001
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| 2002 | The Kiss of Morning | - |
First published: October 21, 2002
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| 2004 | Happiness In Magazines |
UK19th  (3 weeks)UK |
First published: May 17, 2004
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| 2006 | Love Travels At Illegal Speeds |
UK24 (3 weeks) UK |
First published: March 13, 2006
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| 2009 | The spinning top |
UK36 (1 week) UK |
First published: May 11, 2009
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| 2012 | A + E |
UK39 (1 week) UK |
First published: April 2, 2012
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Live albums
- 2006: Burnt to Bitz: At the Astoria (First published October 25, 2006)
Video albums
- 2005: Live at the Zodiac (First released March 28, 2005)
EPs
- 2005: Live at the Zodiac (First released March 28, 2005)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
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UK
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| 2001 | Thank God For The Rain / You Will Never Be Crow Sit on Blood Tree |
UK92 (1 week) UK |
First published: July 30, 2001
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| 2002 | Escape Song / Mountain of Regret The Kiss of Morning |
UK96 (1 week) UK |
First published: October 14, 2002
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| 2004 | Freakin 'Out Happiness in Magazines |
UK37 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: March 8, 2004
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| Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery Happiness in Magazines |
UK22 (3 weeks) UK |
First published: May 17, 2004
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| Spectacular Happiness in Magazines |
UK32 (3 weeks) UK |
First published: July 26, 2004
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| Freakin 'Out / All Over Me Happiness in magazines |
UK19 (3 weeks) UK |
First published: October 25, 2004
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| 2006 | Standing On My Own Again Love Travels at Illegal Speeds |
UK20 (4 weeks) UK |
First published: February 27, 2006
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| You & I Love Travels at Illegal Speeds |
UK39 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: May 8, 2006
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| 2007 | This Old Town |
UK39 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: July 2nd, 2007
with Paul Weller |
More singles
- 2000: Oochy Woochy
- 2006: I Can't Look at Your Skin / What's He Got?
- 2006: What Ya Gonna Do Now? / Bloody Annoying
- 2009: In the Morning
- 2009: Sorrow's Army
- 2009: Dead Bees / Brave the Storm
- 2011: Desire (with Paloma Faith & Bill Ryder-Jones)
- 2012: What'll It Take
- 2012: Ooh, Yeh Yeh / Seven Naked Valleys
- 2012: Advice
- 2017: Falling
Guest Posts
- 2020: What You Gonna Do ??? ( BΔSTILLE feat. Graham Coxon)
literature
- Stuart Maconie: Blur. 3862 days. The Official Chronicle , 2000, Hannibal, ISBN 978-3-85445-176-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Maconie, Stuart 2000: Blur. 3862 days: the official chronicle. Höfen: Hannibal Verlag GmbH.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Interview , July 13, 2006
- ↑ Blur reunion gets closer. Is Graham Coxon finally ready to return to the fold? In: New Musical Express , January 7, 2007.
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ Shannon Carlin, Maike Bartsch: The True Story of Bloodwitch, the band from I Am Not Okay With This. In: Refinery29. March 12, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ a b Chart sources: UK
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Graham Coxon Art - Graham Coxon's Art Page
- Biography
- Graham Coxon on MusicBrainz (English)
- Graham Coxon at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coxon, Graham |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Coxon, Graham Leslie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British rock guitarist, musician and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |