Verse, Chorus, Monster!: Graham Coxon

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If he would be honest with himself and the reader, the book would come out something like 'Diary of an Oxygen Thief'. With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics. One glance at the music press back then would have revealed that Coxon, bespectacled, sharp and into American music as much as the Kinks, was not always thrilled at his band’s direction of travel. Some of this stuff astounded me - did no one think that the “Escape from LA” chapter should be renamed given its depiction of Graham effectively abandoning his wife and child in another country? As with all good music biographies/memoirs, this one sent me off revisiting Blur and Graham’s solo material and also dipping into some of his work that I hadn’t yet checked out.

While I never had the worst of Coxon's life by any stretch, I find something relatable in his lack of confidence and admirable in the fact that he's working on it. I’d heard a few of his solo albums, and the idea in my head of him was of the punk / sci-fi obsessed / comic book aficionado version.The whole Britpop scene annoyed me at the time which is a shame as I missed out especially with bands like Pulp and Oasis at the helm. Dessa delar var också bra, jag tyckte han beskrev det i bra detalj, och jag kunde faktiskt förstår VARFÖR han kände/gjorde som han gjorde. Coxon’s MO as their guitarist often involved lobbing “anti-solos” into the machinery, the band’s sceptical counterweight. is the memoir of iconic British musician and Blur co-founder Graham Coxon, charting a life of music, fame, addiction and art. from his early days in Seymour (soon to be a little band named Blur) to his recent works through The Waeve and beyond.

Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to become one of the most innovative and respected guitarists of his generation – but it wasn’t always easy. Efter år av turnerande tillsammans är det inte orimligt att vilja testa något nytt på eget håll, men det är fint att dom hittar tillbaka till varandra. Le pagine raccontano anche le tensioni tra i componenti nei tour, tra band e discografici per la pressione fortissima che incrina lo spazio artistico e creativo del musicista, il mondo di avvoltoi che attornia chi arriva al successo, le polemiche create ad arte sulla stampa per creare la dicotomia Oasis - ragazzi poveri vs.El libro es muy íntimo, sin embargo siento que a la vez en algunas partes Graham fue muy reservado, habló muy poco por ejemplo de la separación de la banda y de los motivos que hasta el día de hoy siguen siendo muy genéricos. He lives in a very big house in the country, for a time (mostly as a hermit, walking the bounds in his pants). As a recovering alcoholic, part of the 12 Step Process is to accept responsibility for your part in relationship difficulties, whether those be romantic, friendships or business colleagues, and make amends for any pain caused by your drinking. It's commendable that Coxon is as honest as he is here, and perhaps for a man hobbled by mental illness, Coxon skims over relationships and only vaguely hints at the reasons for his relationship breakdowns as best and as comfortably as he can.

The book indicates that love in the 90s is paranoid, but friendship in the 90s was closed off from emotional expressiveness, to Coxon’s detriment. Raised in Derbyshire and not rich, Coxon was particularly vexed when Blur were cast as posh southern kids to the more hardscrabble Oasis.Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today. That rounded Blur typefacez with the 'r' that bleeds of the edge of the sleeve was how we originally designed it". I'd also seen the Manics and Pulp ((i know, right) and the band were blisteringly great and blew the roof off the tent. An incredibly intuitive and talented musician, Coxon spends most of the book writing as if he's anything but, afflicted with crushing doubts about his own abilities both as a musician and a Human Being.

Otherwise a fascinating insight into his own personal history outside of Blur, which I had known nothing about! Having been heavily influenced by Graham both as a musician, and as a person, I could not wait to read this book. This is a great book for any fan of the band or the era, casting light on an alternative side of the phenomenon that was easy to take against, but still made me singalong and dance like a fool. Början består mest av minnen, och jag tyckte det var den bästa delen av boken- jag fick verkligen förstå han.Written with the journalist Rob Young – author of Electric Eden, a primer on British folk music’s transporting qualities – Coxon’s memoir does not reveal anything very new about a much-catalogued era. A total page-turner from a genius guitarist, brimming with a feast of wild, weird, accessible confessional moments.