Badly Drawn Boy: Born in the UK (EMI)
Pete Paphides, The Times, 6 October 2006
JAMES BLUNT may have recently been voted Britain's fourth-biggest irritant, but he's found an unlikely ally in Damon Gough, the man who trades as Badly Drawn Boy. "Good luck to him," he declared. "There have been so many artists in the last few years...not challenging anything but doing something that sits well on radio and gets housewives sing(ing) along."
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