Damon Albarn says that back in the 1990s he was considering a career move into politics, but a meeting with Tony Blair “terrified” him so much he gave up on the idea.“Politics is such a murky business”, Albarn tells Metro. “I would be lying if I said I hadn’t considered it when I was younger.
I even went and had a strategic meeting with Tony Blair before he became Prime Minister, but that terrified me so much. [I thought] ‘I don’t know if this is for me at all – I’m not a politician, I am a musician'”.Albarn has previously spoken about this meeting, but didn’t reveal that it was with a view to him getting into politics himself.
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