Verse, Chorus, Monster!: Graham Coxon

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His discomfort with sexism – and success – was played out in interviews. Coxon’s then-partner was in the riot grrrl band Huggy Bear and at the height of Blur’s fame, Coxon retreated from “high street Blur” into the grassroots DIY punk scene. Other tensions tugged at Blur – both Coxon and drummer Dave Rowntree struggled with alcoholism. Coxon entered rehab in 2001, and the rest of Blur made their album Think Tank without him. A recent piece in the Guardian noted the striking number of musicians in hardcore punk who had grown up as army kids. Born in Germany, Coxon also moved around bases, living the kind of unsupervised 1970s childhood full of sharp edges and casual violence that seems heart-rending now. Raised in Derbyshire and not rich, Coxon was particularly vexed when Blur were cast as posh southern kids to the more hardscrabble Oasis.

Coxon will join 6Music’s Matt Everitt live on stage for an evening of conversation about his new book, life, music, art and more. verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Faber announce a 4-date UK book tour to mark publication of Verse, Chorus, Monster!, the long-awaited memoir from Blur co-founder, guitar legend and visual artist Graham Coxon. All this is a matter of public record. 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.