I mean in the Sixties and Seventies everyone used to buy great big white Rolls-Royces and wander around in big
"I mean, in the Sixties and Seventies everyone used to buy great big white Rolls-Royces and wander around in big cloaks dressed like wizards and things. He said in an article for NME: "In the Sixties, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal."He is sussed and self-conscious, prone, in his own words, to "nauseous self-preoccupation". The punk movement dissociated itself from the musicians of the decade before, but ended up aping their beliefs: that they could bring down the government, that rock stardom meant throwing television sets out of windows Albarn, on the other hand, knows better.
He knows all about the cliches of outrageous rock behaviour - even trying out a few of them for himself - and has decided that they're not really suitable for the Nineties. At concerts he throws water over the frazzled crowds, and chides them for crushing dangerously at the front. I think heroin is shit, and anyone who suggests otherwise is an idiot."This is pop star as intelligent, caring big brother. Respectful to his elders, setting an example for the little ones. "There are a lot of people, myself included, who get really ill if they take Class A drugs Heroin seems to be so bloody fashionable at the moment.
"I think Blur seem to be out on their own as far as encouraging people not to fuck up their lives with drugs," he told the style magazine ID. And while he has hardly abstained from drug use, his experience of drugs around the house as a boy suggests why they were never much of a thrill. I was always allowed to stay up late and stay around at parties with people smoking dope and getting pissed and taking drugs. So that never had any allure."This goes some way towards explaining his attitude towards pop: it's not a weapon of revolt, it's a sensible career option. Even the money he spent on making his first demo tape was given to him by his grandad. "Pop culture was never something new to me," said Albarn in Q magazine "It never served as a reference point for rebellion. Albarn's father, an acquaintance of Cat Stevens and Soft Machine, used to work as a furniture designer; his mother as a stage designer for Joan Littlewood's company.
Damon was born in Whitechapel Hospital, east London, on 23 March 1968. He spent his early childhood in Leytonstone, until Mr Albarn Sr became a lecturer at North Essex School of Art and the family moved to a village just outside Colchester It was, by all accounts, a Bohemian household. It's a far cry from 1976, when Johnny Rotten spat his hatred of hippies and of the old (ie, those over 20). Albarn may want his band to change the world, but he is no revolutionary.You could blame the parents. Thanks to the phenomenal success of Parklife, it was the 50-year-old Davies who had cause to feel grateful for this patronage, and not the other way round.