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Line-Up Ex-Members Albums Singles Videos Movies Books Awards Links Various Refers
BLUR
Colchester, GB
*  1990

Line-Up (2023):

BLUR (photo)
 

Damon Albarn - voc
Graham Coxon - g
Alex James - bg
Dave Rowntree - ds

Former Members:

Graham Coxon (g,voc, 1990-10/02); Simon Tong (g, 2/03-?)

Albums Discography:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Leisure27.08.1991Food7
2.Modern Life Is Rubbish10.05.1993Food15
3.Parklife
produced by: Stephen Street
25.04.1994Food/EMI1
4.The Great Escape11.09.1995Food/Parlophone1 150
5.Live At Budokan
(2CD)
27.05.1996EMI Japan
6.Blur
produced by: Stephen Street
10.02.1997Food/Parlophone1 61
7.Bustin' & Dronin'02.03.1998Parlophone100
8.13
produced by: William Orbit
15.03.1999Food1 80
9.10th Anniversary CD Singles Box Set06.09.1999
10.No Distance Left To Run17.01.2000Parlophone
11.Blur - Best Of30.10.2000Food/Parlophone3 186
12.Maximum Blur03.12.2002Chrome Dreams
13.Think Tank06.05.2003Virgin 56
14.Holiday Gift Pack20.11.2007Virgin
15.Midlife: A Beginners Guide To Blur
(2CD)
15.06.2009Parlophone20
16.All The People - Live In Hyde Park 02/078/2009 EMI70
17.All The People - Live In Hyde Park 03/078/2009 EMI44
18.21
(7LP box set)
30.07.2012Parlophone71
19.Parklive: Live In Hyde Park 12th August 2012
(5CD/DVD)
03.12.2012Parlophone91
20.The Magic Whip
produced by: Stephen Street
27.04.2015Parlophone1 24
21.BBC Radio 1 Parklife Session02.08.2019Parlophone
22.Present The Special Collectors Edition4/2023 Parlophone86
23.The Ballad Of Darren
produced by: James Ford
21.07.2023Parlophone1 94

Graham Coxon:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.The Sky Is Too High10.08.1998Transcopic31
2.The Golden D12.06.2000Transcopic/Parlophone
3.Crow Sit In Blood Tree06.08.2001Transcopic
4.Dig Two Graves11/2002 Transcopic
5.Happiness In Magazines
produced by: Stephen Street
17.05.2004Astralwerks19
6.Love Travels At Illegal Speeds
(in the USA 31.10.06)
produced by: Stephen Street
13.03.2006Parlophone24
7.Burnt To Bitz10/2006 2CD
8.The Spinning Top
produced by: Stephen Street
11.05.2009Transgressive36
9.A+E02.04.2012Parlophone39
10.Bankbusted Nuclear Detergent Blues (Jazz Poetry SuperJam #3)
& Damon Albarn & Paul Weller & Michael Horovitz
29.06.2015Gearbox

Damon Albarn:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Mali Music
& Afel Bocoum & Toumani Diabaté & Mali Music
06.08.2002Honest Jon's
2.Democrazy
(2LP)
08.12.2003Honest Jon's
3.Dr Dee07.05.2012Parlophone42
4.Everyday Robots28.04.2014Parlophone2 32
5.Bankbusted Nuclear Detergent Blues (Jazz Poetry SuperJam #3)
& Graham Coxon & Paul Weller & Michael Horovitz
29.06.2015Gearbox
6.Wonder.land29.04.2016Parlophone
7.The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows12.11.20217

Dave Rowntree:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Radio Songs
produced by: Leo Abrahams
23.01.2023Cooking Vinyl

Singles Discography:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.She's So High / I Know15.10.1990Food48
2.There's No Other Way / Inertia
12",CD + Mr. Briggs / I'm All Over
12" + Day Upon Day (live)
3/1991 Food5 82
3.Bang / Luminous
12" + Explain / Uncle Love
CD + Beserk
7/1991 Food24
4.High Cool
(promo)
11/1991 Blur
5.Popscene / Mace
12" + I'm Fine / Garden Central
CD +Badgeman Brown
30.03.1992Food32
6.The Wassailing Song
(free)
12/1992 Blur
7.For Tomorrow
12",MC + Visit To Primrose Hill Extended Mix / Into Another / Hanging Over
CD1 + Peach / Bone Bag
CD2 + When The Cows Come Home / Beachcoma / For Tomorrow (Acoustic Version)
produced by: Stephen Street
19.04.1993Food28
8.Chemical World / Maggie May
12",CD1 + Never Clever / Pressure On Julian / Come Together (all live)
CD2 + Es Schmecht / Young And Lovely / My Ark
28.06.1993Food28
9.Sunday Sunday / Tell Me, Tell Me
12" + Mixed Up / Dizzy
CD1 + Fried / Shimmer
CD2 + Daisy Bell / Let's All Go Down The Strand
04.10.1993Food26
10.Girls & Boys / Magpie / People In Europe
CD1 + Anniversary Waltz
07.03.1994Food5 59
CD2 + Peter Panic14.03.1994Food
11.To The End (Jusqu'a La Fin) / Girls & Boys / Threadbare Street / Got Yer!06.06.1994Food16
12.Parklife / Supa Shoppa / Beard / Theme From An Imaginary Film
12",CD + To The End (French version)
22.08.1994Food11
13.End Of A Century / Red Necks
CD + Alex's Song
07.11.1994Food16
14.Country House / One Born Every Minute
CD1 + To The End (with Francoise Hardy)
CD2 + Girls & Boys / Parklife / For Tomorrow (all live)
21.08.1995Food1
15.The Universal / Entertain Me
CD1 + Ultranol / No Monsters In Me
CD2 + Mr Robinson's Quango / It Could Be You / Stereotypes (all live)
13.11.1995Food5
16.Stereotypes / The Man Who Left Himself / Tame
CD + Ludwig
12.02.1996Food7
17.Charmless Man / The Horrors
CD + A Song / St Louis
29.04.1996Food5
18.Beetlebum / Woodpigeon Song
CD1 + Dancehall
CD2 + All Your Life / A Spell For Money
20.01.1997Food1
19.Song 2 / Get Out Of Cities
CD1 + Polished Stone
CD2 + Bustin' & Dronin / Country Sad Ballad Man
07.04.1997Food2
20.On Your Own16.06.1997Food5
21.M.O.R. / Swallows In The Heatwave / Movin' On / Beetlebum08.09.1997Food15
22.Song #3 (breakbeat remixes)13.04.1998white label
23.Song #2 (It's All A Blur)08.06.1998white label
24.Close
(for fans only)
11/1998
25.Tender / All We Want / Mellow Jam / French Song01.03.1999Food2
26.Coffee & TV28.06.1999Food11
27.No Distance Left To Run / Battle (UNKLE remix) / Beagle 2
CD1 + So You / Tender (Cornelius remix)
CD2 + Battle (UNKLE remix) / Beagle 2
15.11.1999Food14
No Distance Left To Run / Tender (Cornelius remix) / Battle (UNKLE remix)29.11.1999Food
28.Music Is My Radar / Black Book / Headist / 7 Days / She's So High16.10.2000Food10
29.I'm Fine / Bonebag / No Monsters In Me / Young & Lovely2/2001
30.Out Of Time / Money Makes Me Crazy (Marrakech Mix)
DVD + Tune 2
produced by: Blur/Ben Hillier/Norman Cook
14.04.2003Parlophone5
31.Crazy Beat / The Outsider
CD + Don't Be
07.07.2003Parlophone18
32.Good Song / Morricone
DVD + My White Noise
06.10.2003Parlophone22
33.Fool's Day17.04.2010Parlophone
34.Girls And Boys2/2012 Food88
35.Parklife2/2012 Food74
36.Song 22/2012 Food64
37.Under The Westway / The Puritan02.08.2012Parlophone34
38.The Narcissist18.05.2023Parlophone81
39.St. Charles Square29.06.2023Parlophone

Graham Coxon:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.Freakin' Out08.03.200437
2.Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery03.05.200422
3.Spectacular26.07.200432
4.Freakin' Out / All Over Me
(re-release)
25.10.200419
5.Standing On My Own Again / Say So What
7"(2) + Livin'
CD + Right To Pop! (Peel Session)
27.02.2006Parlophone20
6.You & I / See Saw
CD1 + Click Click Click
CD2 + Light Up Your Candles / Click Click Click
08.05.2006Parlophone39
7.I Can't Look At Your Skin / Time For Heroes17.07.2006Parlophone
8.What's He Got / Outta My League, Dear17.07.2006Parlophone
9.What Ya Gonna Do Now? / Bloody Annoying23.10.2006Parlophone
10.This Old Town / Each New Morning / Black River
& Paul Weller
30.07.2007Regal Singles Club39
11.In The Morning18.04.2009
12.Sorrow's Army18.05.2009
13.Brave The Storm / Dead Bees28.09.2009
14.What'll It Take02.04.2012
15.Ooh Yeh Yeh11.06.2012
16.Advice10.09.2012
17.Ballade Of The Nocturnal Commune / Extra Time Meltdown
& Damon Albarn & Paul Weller & Michael Horovitz
29.06.2015Gearbox
18.She Knows11/2019 Graham Coxon
19.What You Gonna Do???
& Bastille
30.07.2020Virgin

Damon Albarn:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.Feel Free / Bad Boy (radio edit)
& Kano
10.12.2007679
2.Heavy Seas Of Love4/2014 Parlophone70
3.Hollow Ponds / Lonley Press Play30.04.2014Parlophone
4.Ballade Of The Nocturnal Commune / Extra Time Meltdown
& Graham Coxon & Paul Weller & Michael Horovitz
29.06.2015Gearbox
5.Young Lies
& Poté
4/2021 Outlier
6.Particles01.09.2021
7.Royal Morning Blue23.09.2021

Dave Rowntree:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.London Bridge
produced by: Leo Abrahams
05.07.2022Cooking Vinyl
2.Devil's Island26.09.2022Cooking Vinyl
3.Tape Measure22.11.2022Cooking Vinyl

Videos:

1. Starshaped - 11.10.1993, PMI, 85 min
2. Showtime - 2/1995, PMI, live
3. The Best Of Blur - 11/2000, Food
4. No Distance Left To Run - 13.02.2010, 2DVD
5. Parklive: Live In Hyde Park 12th August 2012 - 03.12.2012, Parlophone, live

Movies:

1. Face (9/1997, starring Damon Albarn, directed by Antonia Bird)
2. 101 Reykjavik (5/2001, score Damon Albarn & Einar Orn)
3. No Distance Left To Run (19.1.2010, documentary)

Bibliography:

Paul Lester: Blur: The Illustrated Story (3/95)
Paul Postle: Blurbook (11/95)
Stuart Maconie: 3862 Days - The Official History of Blur (7/99, Virgin)
Graham Coxon: Verse, Chorus, Monster! (6.10.2022, Faber, autobiography)

Awards:

1993 Melody Maker Readers Poll - Best Live Act
1994 Melody Maker Single Of The Year ("Girls & Boys")
1994 Melody Maker Readers Poll

- Best Album ("Parklife")
- Best Music Video ("Parklife")
- People You Would Like To See More Of In The Maker
1994 New Musical Express Readers' Poll
- Best Band
- Best Album ("Parklife")
- Best Music Video ("Parklife")
1995 Brit Awards
- Best British Group
- Best Single By A British Artist ("Parklife")
- Best Album By A British Artist ("Parklife")
- Best Video By A British Artist ("Parklife")
1995 Melody Maker Readers Poll
- Hype Of The Year (vs Oasis)
- People You Would Like To See Less Of In The Maker
1995 Q Awards - Best Album ("The Great Escape")
1998 New Musical Express Readers' Internet Poll - Who's year will 1999 be?
1999 MTV European Music Awards - Best Video ("Coffee And TV")
1999 New Musical Express Readers' Poll
- Best Single ("Tender")
- Best Video ("Coffee And TV")
- Best Band
2003 Q Awards - Best Album ("Think Tank")
2010 Shockwaves NME Awards - Best Live Event
2012 Brit Awards - Outstanding Contribution To Music
2012 Q Awards - Best Live Act

WWW Links:

http://www.virginrecords.com/blur/
http://www.blur.cream.org
http://www.geocities.com/soho/studios/7708/
http://www.blur.co.uk

Various:

1989 Seymour; Great White Hopes
since 1990 Blur
3/1992 - Rollercoaster Tour (+ The Jesus And Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr.)

Compilation Appearances:

"Maggie May" on compilation "Ruby Tracks The NME's Roaring Forty" (11/92, Forty/NME)
"Oliver's Army" on compilation "Peace Together" (19.7.1993, Island)
"Substitute" on compilation "Who Covers Who" (6.9.1993, CM Disk - 30. anniversary of The Who)
"Eine Kleine Lift Musik" on Bosnian War Child charity CD "Help" (9.9.95, Go! Discs)
"On Your Own" on OST "The Beach" (8.2.00, London)
"There's No Other Way" on OST "Radio Sunnydale: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Music From the Television Series" (30.9.03, Virgin)
"Song 2" on compilation "John Peel - A Tribute" (17.10.05)

appeared on the LP:
Tibetan Freedom Concert (17.11.97, Grand Royal, live 3CD)

Blur FC, PO Box 525, Stoke-On-Trent, ST 7 2 YX (Great Britain) (Rock & Pop, 2/2000)

Damon Albarn:

appeared on the LP:

Elastica: Elastica (13.3.95, Deceptive, kb)
Pretenders: The Isle Of View (10/95, WEA)
The Rentals: Seven More Minutes (26.4.99, Maverick)
Cornelius: FM (29.3.99, Matador)
Lovage: Nathaniel Merriweather Presents Lovage: Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By (6.11.01, 75 Ark)
Fatboy Slim: Palookaville (4.10.04)
Marianne Faithfull: Before The Poison (27.9.04, Naive)
Fatboy Slim: Palookaville (4.10.04, Skint)
Gorillaz: Demon Days (25.5.05, Virgin)
Massive Attack: Heligoland (8.2.10)
Tony Allen: Film Of Life (10/14)
MC Kano: Made In The Manor (4.3.16)
Bombay Bicycle Club: My Big Day (20.10.23)

appeared on the SP:
Terry Hall: Rainbows EP (2.10.95, Anxious)
Cornelius: Star Fruits Surf Rider (19.10.98, Matador)
Gorillaz: Comes Today (27.11.00, Parlophone)
Amadou & Mariam: Ce n'est pas bon (9.3.09)

produced by LP:
Bobby Womack: The Bravest Man In The Universe (11.6.12)
Baby Dave: Monkey Brain (22.4.22)

Compilation Appearances:
"Closet Romantic" on OST "Trainspotting" (19.2.96, EMI Premier)
"One Day At A Time" / "Kevin On A Motorbike" / "Dying Is Easy" / "Chase After Gallery"/ "Bank Job" on OST "Ordinary Decent Criminal" (13.3.00, east west)
"Waterloo Sunset" on The Kinks tribute CD "This is Where I Belong-The Songs of Ray Davies & The Kinks" (1.4.02, Rykodisc, & Ray Davies)

2007 music k opeře "Monkey: Journey To The West"

Awards:

1994 Melody Maker Readers Poll - Sex Symbol Of The Year
1995 Melody Maker Readers Poll - Cretinous, Useless, Negligible, Tosser Of The Year
1995 New Musical Express Readers' Poll - Dickhead Of The Year
1997 Brit Awards - Best Soundtrack ("Trainspotting")
2014 NME Awards - Award for Innovation
2015 Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Graham Coxon:

own label Transcopic

appeared on the LP:

Paul Weller: 22 Dreams (2.6.08)
Paul Weller: Sonik Kicks (26.3.12)

Press References:

Bang!
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19942810.08.199428interview
19952031.10.199539interview
19952114.11.199517Live Bang!gig review
19952421.12.199514SinglBang!single review
1996316.02.199615Singlbang!single review
Big Beng!
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
1997720.02.199725Forum kritikumalbum review
1997827.02.199716interview
19971120.03.199738Hard & Heavy Masters
19971624.04.199713Livegig review
19974228.11.19977Infokus
1998719.02.19986Infokus
19991125.03.199925Forum kritikumalbum review
19991201.04.199916profile, interview
19991308.04.199922Bonus - Singlosysingle review
19993330.09.19997Infokus
20002307.12.200034Forum kritikumalbum review
20021627.09.20029Infokus
20021808.11.200212Infokus
Melodie
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
199112 15profile
19927 10gig review
Melody Maker
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19921007.03.199215Livegig review
19921114.03.199239
19921221.03.19923News
19921328.03.199252
19921328.03.199235Singlessingle review
19921404.04.199244
19921511.04.199214Livegig review
19923101.08.199214Livegig review
19923712.09.19927
19925012.12.19924News
19931403.04.19935News
19931724.04.199331Singlessingle review
19932015.05.19936News
19932015.05.199332Albumsalbum review
19932305.06.199316Livegig review
19932519.06.19934News
19932703.07.199327Singlessingle review
19933131.07.199315Livegig review
19933604.09.199343Reading '93
19933711.09.19933News
19933818.09.19932News
19933925.09.199328
19934002.10.199334Singlessingle review
19934216.10.199316Livegig review
19934323.10.199343Videos
1994108.01.19944
1994905.03.199439Singlessingle review
19941226.03.199431
19941302.04.199431
19941623.04.199428Albumsalbum review
19941807.05.199426
19942021.05.19945News
19942021.05.199416livegig review
19942021.05.199446Info Freako
19942021.05.199447Control Zone
19942204.06.199433Singlessingle review
19942602.07.199431Glastonbury '94
19943427.08.199436Singlessingle review
19943724.09.199448Info Freako
19944015.10.199417Livegig review
19944122.10.19943News
19944305.11.199434Singlessingle review
19945224.12.19945News
19945224.12.199412interview
1995718.02.199514Video
19952020.05.199553Control Zone
19952127.05.199516Livegig review
19952524.06.199516Livegig review
19952601.07.199512
19952922.07.19955News
19953029.07.19955News
19953105.08.199516Livegig review
19953212.08.199528interview
19953212.08.199532Singlessingle review
19953319.08.19953News
19953319.08.199512interview
19953502.09.19954News
19953609.09.199533Albumsalbum review
19953823.09.19956News
19953930.09.199516Livegig review
19953930.09.199548Control Zone
19954328.10.19955News
19954511.11.199536Singlessingle review
19954618.11.19955News Specialinterview
19954725.11.19955News
19954802.12.199516Livegig review
19954909.12.19955News
19954909.12.199526
1996717.02.199632Singlessingle review
1996902.03.19966News
19961009.03.199629interview
19961406.04.19965News Special
19961513.04.19963
19961727.04.199656single review
19961804.05.199660Singlessingle review
19962201.06.199642Albumsalbum review
19962629.06.199638Livegig review
19963531.08.19965News
1997104.01.19973News
1997211.01.199736Singlessingle review
1997318.01.19974News
1997425.01.19975News
1997501.02.199714gig review
1997608.02.199748Albumsalbum review
1997822.02.19973Newsinterview
1997822.02.199742Livegig review
19971329.03.199733Livegig review
19971512.04.199716Singlessingle review
19972231.05.19975News
19972307.06.19973News
19972521.06.199732interview
19972521.06.199735Livegig review
19972628.06.199737Livegig review
19973423.08.19975News
19973423.08.199739festival V97gig review
19973713.09.199753Singlessingle review
19974004.10.19977News
19974829.11.199718interview
19974829.11.199737Coming Up
19974906.12.199731Livegig review
1998317.01.199839Control Zone
19982918.07.199821
New Musical Express
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
1990013.10.199016
Rock & Pop
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
1992509.03.199214profile
19921814.09.199230Live - NME Gimme Sheltergig review
1993913.05.199322Indiesprofile
19941107.06.199427Recommandéalbum review
19941419.07.19949profile
19941419.07.199425Glastonbury '94gig review
19951812.09.19953Hot
19951812.09.199519
19952321.11.199526Recommandéalbum review
19952321.11.199530Livegig review
19972 68interview
19974 99Recenzealbum review
19987 7Rock & Top
19988 29Glastonbury '98gig review
19991 14Pelmel
19992 6Rock & Top
19993 67profile
19993 99Recenzealbum review
19993 119Recenze - Internet
19998 14Venku
199912 15Pelmel
20002 116Recenze - Singlysingle review
20005 15Pelmel
20007 14Pelmel
200011 15Pelmel
200012 100Recenze - Novinkyalbum review
20013 118Recenze - Internet
20021 17Pelmel
20023 17Pelmel
20033 18Pel Mel
20035 39
20035 40interview
20035 65Recenze CDalbum review
20037 21Pelmel
200310 14Pelmel
200311 88DVD
20047 6Pelmel
200511 13Rock&Top
20061 11Rock&Top - News
20065 6Rock&Top - News
200612 12News
20076 6Rock & Top - News
200710 12Rock & Top - News
200711 12News
20091 12Rock&Top
20097 6Rock & Top - News
200910 8Rock & Top - News
20102 8Rock & Top
Rolling Stone
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19991 96Nová albaalbum review
Spark
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
20035 41Recordsalbum review