An English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist, Graham Coxon is one of the most innovative guitarists of his generation, best known as being a founding member of blur. Coxon has also released eight solo albums and frequently composes for film and TV. His passion for experimental and indie music helped shape the distinctive blur sound throughout their imperial hit-making phase, a period that produced a succession of chart-topping albums which propelled the band to mass popularity in the UK and beyond. That adventurousness is also a feature of his solo career, which ranges from folk and Krautrock-inspired albums to soundtrack work.
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Coxon’s work as a solo artist includes the studio albums The Sky Is Too High (1998), The Golden D (2000), Crow Sit on Blood Tree (2001), The Kiss of Morning (2002), Happiness in Magazines (2004), Love Travels at Illegal Speeds (2006), The Spinning Top (2009) and A+E (2012). His work as a composer include the original songs and score for The End of the F***ing World (2018), The End of the F***ing World 2 (2019), I Am Not Okay with This (2020), and Superstate (2021) released in association with Z2 Comics.
He has collaborated with numerous other artists including Paul Weller on the single ‘This Old Town’ and Pete Doherty on his 2009 album Grace/Wastelands. In 2017 Coxon (along with Damon Albarn) appeared on Ratboy’s debut album, Scum, and the same year he recorded the song ‘Falling’ which was released as a fundraiser for the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM). More recently, he recorded a new song titled ‘Parasite’ with English Teacher for the 2026 album HELP(2), in support of War Child, as well as providing guitar for Olivia Rodrigo’s take on The Magnetic Fields song ‘The Book of Love’ on the same album.
The eponymous debut album from The WAEVE – composed of Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall – was released in 2023. The band’s second studio album City Lights was released in 2024.
