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Blur: 3862 Days: The Official Story by Stuart Maconie
5.0
My version is the non updated one, which includes material on Gorillaz, Coxon's departure, solo career and Think Tank. There's a lot more now with another new album, Albarn's solo career, Rowntree's political endeavors etc
In 1999 blur celebrated their tenth anniversary as a band and there were a lot blur associated things coming out - the two main events was the release of the band's best album - 13 and this official bio which included interviews with the band.
Blur are important for me as they were the group that made me like alternative music and this bio tells the story, beginning with the band's roots and all the problems that came with them - since the group consists of four distinct personalities clashes were bound to happen and fighting has plagued the band from day one - Maconie makes this clear. As with most rock bios there are drugs but Maconie doesn't really dwell on these things - rather he writes about blur's role in the britpop years and then their rejection of it in order to move into weirder territories. Plus there's quite a few interesting facts behind the making of their first five albums - the sixth gets a brief mention which does shed some light on how blur work and how Stephen Street helped guide the band into stardom by acting as a peacemaker.
3862 Days is the way a bio should be - informative, not exhaustive with humorous moments
In 1999 blur celebrated their tenth anniversary as a band and there were a lot blur associated things coming out - the two main events was the release of the band's best album - 13 and this official bio which included interviews with the band.
Blur are important for me as they were the group that made me like alternative music and this bio tells the story, beginning with the band's roots and all the problems that came with them - since the group consists of four distinct personalities clashes were bound to happen and fighting has plagued the band from day one - Maconie makes this clear. As with most rock bios there are drugs but Maconie doesn't really dwell on these things - rather he writes about blur's role in the britpop years and then their rejection of it in order to move into weirder territories. Plus there's quite a few interesting facts behind the making of their first five albums - the sixth gets a brief mention which does shed some light on how blur work and how Stephen Street helped guide the band into stardom by acting as a peacemaker.
3862 Days is the way a bio should be - informative, not exhaustive with humorous moments