Reunited Blur Writing New Songs

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Fresh off their first reunion shows last weekend, Blur are already working on some new songs during their rehearsals and jam sessions, guitarist Graham Coxon and bassist Alex James tell BBC's 6 Music. The fresh tracks are the first the band has worked on collectively since the sessions for Think Tank's closer "Battery In Your Leg," the last Blur song to feature writing credits for Coxon in 2003.

Even though the Brit-pop band is jamming out new material, fans shouldn't expect to hear any new tracks during their reunion tour. "We wouldn't want to just sling stuff together to play this summer. It wouldn't be right," Coxon says, adding that they don't just want to rush out new material. "We really don't want to put ourselves under any pressure. I think we want to have fun with these gigs and then we'll think about that really." The Damon Albarn-fronted quartet will close out the Glastonbury Festival with a headlining set on June 28th.

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“Everyday People”

Sly and the Family Stone | 1968

"Everyday People" managed to trailblaze in two different ways -- it was one of the first pop hits to deal with the subject of racial harmony, and it utilized Larry Graham's "slap" technique on the bass guitar, which would soon be copied by countless other bassists. Graham once said about his pulsating style, "I'd never done that before … that's where the freedom of creativity came in for the band, that we'd be allowed to do that." In 1978, the song's line "Different strokes for different folks" would be borrowed for the title of the hit television show Diff'rent Strokes.

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