Damon Albarn’s father, Keith Albarn, has died aged 85.
Damon Albarn’s father Keith has handed away
The Blur frontman’s architect dad’s passing was confirmed in an obituary in The Occasions newspaper.
It learn: “Keith Albarn obituary: artist, architect and father of Damon.
“Creator of sensory space-age playgrounds in city areas and an influential trainer.”
He studied structure at Nottingham Faculty of Artwork, the place he met fellow scholar Hazel Dring, whom he married in 1963 in Legsby, Lincolnshire.
That they had two youngsters, Britpop legend Damon, 56, and artist daughter Jessica, 53.
From 1977 to 1981, he was course chief of tremendous artwork at North East London Polytechnic. From 1981 to 1997 he was the pinnacle of the Colchester Faculty of Artwork.
In addition to designing modular buildings, Keith was recognized for his work in TV arts programming.
His passing comes months after Blur wrapped their reunion exhibits at Coachella in April.
And drummer Dave Rowntree lately teased that Blur are prepared to work collectively extra usually so long as the alternatives are proper.
The ‘Parklife’ band are releasing a dwell album of their two gigs at Wembley Stadium final summer season and the sticksman admits the temptation to do extra tasks is all the time there.
He instructed the Each day Star newspaper’s Wired column: “There’s nonetheless tons of stuff we might do. It is about discovering a proposal that is very exhausting to say no to.
“Once we first bought again collectively in 2009, we had been very completely happy to be the primary folks to play what has grow to be the British Summer time Time competition at Hyde Park.
“Then we had been requested to headline the get together to finish the 2012 Olympics, and you’ll’t say no to that.”
Dave defined that the Britpop icons – accomplished by guitarist Graham Coxon and bassist Alex James, each 55 – had enjoyable on the tour that accompanied the discharge of the album ‘The Ballad of Darren’ final yr.
The 60-year-old musician mentioned: “We got here away all nonetheless buddies, having had numerous enjoyable doing the exhibits.
“So there’s completely no cause why we could not take into account one other attention-grabbing concept, if we’re all accessible. However there’s completely nothing within the diary for Blur for the time being.”
In the meantime, followers can try the candid documentary movie ‘Blur: To The Finish’.