Blur frontman Damon Albarn says he is a 'sad 55-year-old' as he discusses ageing and his 'best concert ever'
Brit-pop 禁止（する）d Blur are 支援する but frontman Damon Albarn has 自白するd he is now feeling like a 'sad 55-year-old' in a new interview.
In an interview with Matt Wilkinson for Apple Music 1 the Girls And Boys hitmaker said: 'I'm sad. I'm 公式に a sad 55-year-old.'
But the singer seems to have come to 条件 with his age, as he 明らかにする／漏らすd: 'It's okay 存在 sad. It's almost impossible not to have some sadness in your life by the age of 55.
'If you've managed to get to 55, I can only speak because that's as far as I've managed to get, and not have any sadness in your life, you've had a blessed, charmed life.'
Damon talked about his love of classical music and how whenever he hears anything with a move that leads に向かって sadness his 'ear becomes keen'.
Getting on: Brit-pop 禁止（する）d Blur are 支援する but frontman Damon Albarn has 自白するd he is now feeling like a 'sad 55-year-old' in a new interview
Embracing his sadness: In an interview with Apple Music 1 the Girls And Boys hitmaker said: ' I'm sad. I'm 公式に a sad 55-year-old'
The 禁止（する）d, which featured Damon, Alex James, 54, Graham Coxon, 54, and Dave Rowntree, 59, formed in 1988 and 支配するd the Brit pop scene, と一緒に 競争相手s Oasis.
The 90s 禁止（する）d recently 成し遂げるd their headline shows at Wembley in the run up to their 最新の 記録，記録的な／記録する The Ballad Of Darren which was 解放（する）d on Friday.?
Speaking about the concerts, Damon 自白するd: 'The Sunda y night was the best ever concert.'
Bassist Alex even felt emotional after the concert, as he 明らかにする／漏らすd: 'I was doing live telly yesterday, and the person sitting next to me had been to the gig, and they said, "How was Wembley?" And she just started 絶対 噴出するing and then I nearly started crying.'
The rockstars are now all 井戸／弁護士席 into their 50's but their love of music and energy to 成し遂げる is as alive as ever.
Alex explained how a 確かな artist 述べるd the gig at Wembley as 'four guys having a kick around the park, but the park was Wembley Stadium.'
'It did feel like a pub gig, just the people going 絶対 insane.'
The 禁止（する）d also enjoyed seeing their fans 直面するs as the show started in the daylight before going 井戸／弁護士席 on into the evening.?
They've still got it: Graham Coxon, 54, Alex James, 54, Damon and Dave Rowntree, 59, (pictured left to 権利) formed in 1988 and 支配するd the Brit pop scene
支援する on the 行う／開催する／段階: The 禁止（する）d 成し遂げるd their headline shows at Wembley Stadium in July
Throwback: The Girls And Boys hitmakers had a famous 競争 with the British 禁止（する）d Oasis (pictured together in 1995)
Luckily Damon didn't think too much about the size of the 発生地 during the show, 'the fact is you're really small. On the 行う／開催する／段階, you look like ants. And if you thought like that, if you 現実に could realise that 視野 while you're on 行う／開催する／段階, you'd be so 脅迫してさせるd by it.'
The boys also joked about 株ing the same locker room as the football players?at Wembley Stadium.
'It was really good because they've got 最高の 冷淡な 急落（する），激減（する） pools with jacuzzi inside them,' teased Damon.?
'And there's a 大規模な communal にわか雨. I put them all on and ran around singing,' 追加するd Alex.
Damon and guitarist Graham have always had a bit of a bromance, but recently they 設立する themselves comparing themselves to the boys of Wham!
'I was watching the Wham! 文書の recently. I realised that Graham and I are George and Andrew,' commented Damon.
'We're Pepsi & Shirlie, 明白に' joked Alex, referring to himself and Dave.?
The 禁止（する）d have just 解放（する）d their ninth studio album, but instead of daunting Alex 述べるd the 過程 as 'effortless, joyous [and] weightless.'?
New music: Blur's ninth studio album The Ballad Of Darren was 解放（する）d last Friday?
What a 復帰! Blur played an intimate 無線で通信する 2 gig at Broadcasting House last week?
Surprise 外見: Cockney actor Phil, already a 星／主役にする thanks to his lead 役割 in mod classic Quadrophenia, attracted a wider audience thanks to his 共同 with Blur
It might be 35 years since they first played together, but the chemistry between the four is still there.?
'The very first time we ever worked together, all of us, the four of us in a room, we wrote a song that we still play today. It was there 即時に. And then we spent years doing it for hours every day...that's an incredibly precious thing we've got,' said Alex.
'I remember walking on 行う／開催する／段階 the other day and I said to Dave, "This is 平易な, isn't it?" And he was like, "We've been doing it for 35 years, mate. Anything's 平易な if you do it for 35 years."'
But it seems guitarist Graham doesn't find it やめる so 平易な 'Perhaps 35 years is the 示す when it becomes 平易な then, because until that point, it was always pretty 神経-racking for me,' he joked.?
Reminiscing on old times Damon reckons they only played about six gigs before they got 調印するd and then they 交渉するd their 契約 in The 栄冠を与える pub in Soho.?
Last week the 禁止（する）d 成し遂げるd an intimate gig to?just 300 fans for 無線で通信する 2 with a surprise 業績／成果 from Parklife icon Phil Daniels.?
Damon was as energetic as ever as he finished the gig by jumping into the （人が）群がる. It's （疑いを）晴らす Blur are just as happy as the fans are to be 支援する together.?
'For me, I feel like those songs need to be sung again. I 現実に felt like the horn in the fjord was blown. Honestly, it was like that. It was like, I need to sing those songs again,' said Damon.
Graham quipped 'Mop our brow, park the plough, and then stroll に向かって the big city and don the axe.'
