Many great showbiz stories begin at London’s Groucho Club – and Damon Albarn’s could have cost him millions.

Gorillaz have a new album in the pipeline, but Damon caused a major panic when he left the group’s master copy in a taxi.

The former Blur frontman, 50, went out on the razz with a laptop containing the group’s new tracks, which echo Damon’s anti-Brexit sentiments.

It’s set for a release as early as next month.

A source said: “It was a disaster. Damon oversees everything and, with Gorillaz, it’s not just audio – it’s the expensive visuals as well. The laptop’s contents are priceless.

“But after a night at Groucho, Damon accidentally left it in a cab and caused a huge panic.

“It’s a really personal project because the album is very politically charged. A lot of his opinions on Brexit filter through it.”

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Speaking on stage at the Brits while collecting the Best British Group award in February, Damon warned against the UK becoming “isolated” when Britain leaves the EU next year.

The singer has also publicly confronted Tory MP and Vote Leave member Michael Gove on the subject, and has told the Mirror he thinks a second referendum is “inevitable”.

The source revealed that fortunately the taxi driver in question managed to return the lost laptop to Damon and co. Phew!

“It was a massive relief for everyone involved in the project,” they said.

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Last year’s album Humanz shifted more than 600,000 copies worldwide and reached No 2 in the US Billboard chart in May.

Despite leaving six years between their last releases, the group followed up the album with a bonus track in October, and have since revealed plans to release another full album this year – AND one next year.

Artist Jamie Hewlett revealed: “We’re going straight into the album with no break. Usually we have a good five-year break between each album but we decided, let’s keep going.”