Not so with John Coltrane’s Blue Train, whose cool album cover photo and mood lighting marked it as a work to take seriously. This iconic album cover said it all about coy mid-60s sexuality ...

Blur’s Parklife is the towering album of ’90s British rock ... In 1993, Brett Anderson famously appeared on the cover of Select magazine with the headline: “Yanks go home!” ...

We’ve already seen the release of an intimate fly-on-the-wall documentary about the reunion, Blur: To The End, and a live double album. Still to come next month is a cinema outing for the two ...

The Ballad Of Darren is Blur's first album since 2015's The Magic Whip Damon Albarn says he felt "quite lost" and "sad" while writing Blur's new album, The Ballad Of Darren. The singer penned the ...

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What makes an album flop? Any number of reasons, as time has taught us. Some records just aren't marketed very well. Sometimes artists fall out of public favor and are considered toxic.

One album cover has been selected from each year, dating back to 1949, which is represented by Alex Steinweiss’s design for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 – created as an alternative to the plain sleeves ...

Blur have announced a live album recorded at their Wembley Stadium concerts last July. Blur: Live at Wembley Stadium is out July 26, in digital and physical formats, via Parlophone. A film of the ...

The singer says he embraced his low mood and used it to inform Blur's first album in eight years. Jarvis Cocker, Steve Lamacq, Jo Whiley and Damon Albarn share their opinions on the end of an era.

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This is an audio transcript of the Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast episode: ‘Culture chat — The Oasis reunion explained’ ...

“He used to lie and say he’d just written one on the train,” McGee said ... throwaway “Digsy’s Dinner”, the album’s most Blur-like song concerning the everyday joys of a lasagne ...