When Gorillaz opened the 2006 Grammy Awards ... But in the auditorium it was really quiet." As Albarn, chief singer-songwriter, remembers it, they "didn't even know the bloody thing had started".

Taylor Swift told Albarn that she writes all of her own music Taylor Swift has criticised Damon Albarn, lead singer of Blur and later of Gorillaz, after he said that she doesn't write her own music.