Graham Coxon

One of the heroes of Brit-pop, Graham Coxon, born in Rinteln, Germany (12 March 1969), conquered the UK charts in the mid-1990s as guitarist for Blur, scoring five Number 1 albums and singing lead vocals on the hit single "Coffee & TV". Starting up his own label Transcopic Records in 1998, Graham Coxon indulged in a love for scuzzy, lo-fi, 1960s garage rock on debut solo album The Sky Is Too High (1998) before delving into English folk and Syd Barratt psychedelia on its follow-ups The Golden D (2000) and Crow Sit On Blood Tree (2001). Leaving Blur in 2002 amid alcohol problems, he fired back with his fifth album, the more commercial, indie rock-out of the acclaimed Happiness in Magazines (2004), led by the singles "Freakin' Out" and "Bittersweet Bundle of Misery". The Stephen Street produced Love Travels at Illegal Speeds (2006) scored the Top 20 hit "Standing on My Own Again", but Graham Coxon delved further into the folk world, appearing on John McCusker's Under One Sky and working on Pete Doherty's Grace/Wasteland before reforming with Blur in 2009. A talented artist and graduate of Goldsmith's College, he remains one of his generation's most respected guitar gods, releasing subsequent albums The Spinning Top (2009) and A&E (2012). In 2017, Graham Coxon formed the supergroup The Jaded Hearts Club with Matt Bellamy and Miles Kane, which released the album You've Always Been There in 2020. He then partnered with Rose Elinor Dougall in The Waeve, which recorded two albums since 2023. He also composed songs and the score for the TV soundtrack of The End of the F*** World (2018) and The End of the F*** World 2 (2019). In 2021, he followed up with the soundtrack for Superstate. The album Castle Park, released in 2026, compiled previously unreleased tracks from 2011.