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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. ...

James Blunt: Back from Bedlam

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. ...

I was Blunt’s instrument

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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