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Bookends

Bookends: Down on the farm

10 March 2012

11:00 AM

10 March 2012

11:00 AM

Can we please have an inquiry into why already talented people are allowed to go off and be brilliant at something else too? As a quarter of Blur, Alex James (above), spent a decade creating critically acclaimed yet commercially successful pop anthems, thereby earning himself access to more drink, drugs and Doris than you could shake a Fender Precision bass at.

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