Graham Coxon

Fact Sheet

Musical genre:	Indie, Rock
Band	Blur
Birthday	12 March 1969 (39)
Sign	Pisces
Birthplace	England, UK

Graham Coxon (born 12 March 1969, West Germany) is best known as the guitarist in the British band Blur. He contributed to the band's first six albums, including their famous 1994 album Parklife. Coxon's highly individual style is best showcased on songs such as "Beetlebum" (from Blur's 1997 album Blur) and "Coffee and TV" (from Blur's 13). He left the band in 2002 following a dispute with the other members. Although Damon Albarn has frequently said that the door is always open for Coxon to rejoin the band it is unlikely that this will happen in the near future.

Coxon had already released three solo albums whilst a member of Blur. His first, released on his own Transcopic label was The Sky Is Too High in 1998, a ramshackle mixture of English folk music and 1960s-style garage rock. This was followed by the more extreme The Golden D in 1999 and the thoughtful Dylanesque Crow Sit On Blood Tree (2001). After going solo full time, he released The Kiss Of Morning in 2002. The album proved to be his most accessible to date and was promoted with the single "Escape Song" which proved to be an interesting hybrid of Syd Barrett's Octopus and progressive rock trail-blazers The Nice. In 2004, Coxon released Happiness In Magazines, his most successful solo album to date.

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