Pop music

t seems astonishing that fresh-faced, pop rascals Blur, such a threat to the Old Guard with their rambunctious, Kinks-coloured, music-hall hits and , have been in business for 33 years. They're now firmly part of the establishment, themselves filling Wembley Stadium twice this summer. Periodically they overcome internal tensions to make records as good as , Damon Albarn sounding, as ever, as if slightly bored by the irksome rigours of the outside world, and the group delivering huge, chunky but elegant