James Blunt

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James Blunt: Marching To A New Beat
Interview by Robin Eggar, The Sunday Times, 24 April 2005
GENETICALLY, JAMES Blunt is much too posh to rock. Public school (Harrow), a top university (Bristol), Sandhurst and a commission in the Household Cavalry is ...
James Blunt: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Tim Cooper, The Independent, 5 May 2005
IN THE FRENZY to find a new Damien Rice or David Gray, it suddenly seems as if there's a sensitive singer-songwriter on every street corner. ...
Profile and Interview by Tim Cooper, The Independent, 10 June 2005
How did ex-soldier James Blunt go from serving in Kosovo to playing gigs? Tim Cooper finds out. ...
James Blunt: Strange Life Of An Army Dreamer
Interview by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times, 8 July 2005
James Blunt came to pop stardom the hard way, via Harrow, Sandhurst and the Household Cavalry. ...
Comment by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 21 July 2005
"DOUBLE WHAMMY for Blunt," says a headline in this week's issue of trade magazine Music Week, acknowledging the fact that songwriter James Blunt is at ...
James Blunt: "'You're Beautiful' Got Me Laid"
Interview by William Shaw, Q, July 2006
The Americans think he's "Prince William with a guitar". There is one important difference. James Blunt knows 53 ways to kill a man. ...
James Blunt: The Universal Soldier
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 14 December 2007
OFFICER JAMES BLUNT, pocket-sized former Captain in the Life Guards regiment and 12 million-selling global superstar, clambers out of the car carrying his guitar case. ...
The privileged are taking over the arts – without the grit, pop culture is doomed
Comment by Stuart Maconie, New Statesman, 4 February 2015
With school music spending down and the benefits system crippled, the voices of pop have lost their bite. ...
James Blunt: How we made 'You're Beautiful'
Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 14 January 2020
'It's portrayed as a romantic song but it's actually a bit creepy. It's about a guy — me — stalking someone else's girlfriend while high' ...
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