Blur band biography

ByPauli Poisuo

There was a time, surprisingly many years ago, when young people of Britain revolutionized the music field with jaunty, melody-driven pop and rock songs that may have reminded you of the music of yesteryear, yet sounded fresh.

This movement was called Britpop, one of the foremost guitar music genres of the 1990s — and Blur was one of its finest examples, if not outright the single finest one.

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The band ranks among the supreme entities of Britpop, but that's only a small part of their allure.

The quartet of Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, and Dave Rowntree (via Encyclopedia Britannica) have been unafraid to explore all sorts of directions over the years, deftly moving between all sorts of genres, up to and very much including gospel music.

Blur have had an amazing career, and its individual members have led truly interesting lives. It's time to take a look at their many adventu