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Graham Coxon has denied claims that his new single sounds like Blur's Coffee and TV.

The former Blur guitarist told XFM.co.uk that Bittersweet Bundle of Misery was nothing like the earlier track.

He said: "It's not at all a resemblance. Rhythmically it is, but chordally it isn't at all. Most songs are mostly made up of major or minor chords and there's a lot of major chords in this like Coffee and TV, but the shapes of the chord are completely different.

"I had an awful lot to do with Coffee and TV. It was an adopted child to me. I started off as an acoustic Damon demo vocal, and I guess I took it the way I thought it would benefit, to write the lyrics and sing it.

"There will always be similarities between Blur and my stuff as I was responsible for quite a lot of the favour of Blur songs."

He said the title of his new album, Happiness In Magazines, was a reaction against the lifestyle magazines that flood British culture.

"It's their world of aspirations," he explained. "They're all about great kitchens, great pots and pans, great bottoms, great suits and great cars.

"Looking through those magazines isn't very good for my sense of reality. It makes my reality look an awful lot more dull after seeing those things."