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Coxon reveals concept album plans

Published Monday, Feb 4 2008, 14:49 GMT | By Alex Fletcher
Coxon reveals concept album plans
Former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon has revealed that his new solo LP will be a concept album.

The rocker's follow-up to 2006's Love Travels At Illegal Speeds will be based around the life of a man born in the '50s who is sent to war.

He told XFM: "It's about a man who is born in, um, possibly the fifties. Grows up, meets a girl, gets married, then has to go to war and gets really knackered up and then has a divorce and then goes mad and then...er...dies and goes to heaven."

"I've written an awful lot and they've gone into two piles. I am concentrating on one element of what I do more than the other.

"I think I got to a point on the last record where I covered that really and I want to concentrate on some other preoccupations, it's about those."

Coxon said last week that he would be "happy" if a Blur reunion never occurred because he was content and busy with his solo career.
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