Blur Reuniting For London Concert, Possible Glastonbury Slot

After months of rumors, informal lunches and supposed practices, Blur finally revealed today that the Damon Albarn-led band will reunite for a concert at London's Hyde Park on July 3rd, 2009. Guitarist Graham Coxon, who left the band during the recording of 2002's Think Tank, will join his bandmates Albarn, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. "It just felt it was right again," Albarn said of Blur's reunion, "It somehow feels like there's something for us to do again, we're not completely useless or pointless, we've got a reason to exist." One rumored reason to exist: Glastonbury 2009, which the band hinted it might headline. "We'll do something in London because that seems sensible," Albarn added, "but we're also playing in other parts of the country working up to [Glastonbury]." While no new album plans were revealed, Albarn has made it known he was eager to begin work on the third Gorillaz album in early '09.

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“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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