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James sees Moon Landing as the album he may have recorded if Back to Bedlam hadn’t been so successful. He sees it as going back to sounding like himself.Īt first he was playing a lot of ukulele “mainly because it makes me look bigger”, chuckled James.Īfter early work with Martin Terefe, who has worked with James Morrison, KT Tunstall and Jason Mraz, James went to LA, staying with his friend Carrie Fisher as he did for the first album and began work with Tom Rothrock, who produced Back to Bedlam. “I wanted to write songs that meant something to me, moved me and were genuine.” “That was a great, fun experience but I’m not sure how rewarding it was for me towards the end. I was recording songs that I thought the audience would like to hear and words that I thought they would like to hear. I was living the childhood dream of playing electric guitar as the frontman of the band in large arenas. It’s stripped back, often just James and a piano or guitar. I can’t say I’m a massive Blunt fan but having listened to the album, it’s fantastic – classic 70s Elton John with tracks such as the Whitney Houston-inspired Miss America and current single Bonfire Heart bursting with melody. His three albums have sold some 17 million copies.īut Moon Landing is something different. He’s won two Brits, two Ivor Novellos and been nominated for five Grammys. “But there was a song, You’re Beautiful, that went to a dirty place called mainstream.”īack to Bedlam, released in 2004, sold 11 million records worldwide and has allowed James to tour the world three times (he starts his fourth next year). James said: “When I was recording Back to Bedlam, it was an indie album. But he always wanted to be a singer and, when he was spotted playing at the South by Southwest music festival, he was signed up by 4 Non Blondes’ Linda Perry to her new label Custard. James was educated at Harrow, then signed up to the Army, serving for six years, including a stint in Kosovo in the 1990s. It remains the 16th best-selling album in UK chart history. It’s the song that turned him into one of the UK’s biggest acts at the turn of the century, cracking America – You’re Beautiful went to No1 in the US (and the UK) and his debut album Back to Bedlam went to No2 (No1 in the UK). That song has been the cornerstone of my career and got me on three world tours. If I didn’t play it, the audience would be furious. Thousands of couples around the world have had their first dance at their wedding to this tune.Īnd while other artists get bored by the big tunes and often refuse to play them for a while, James knows just how much You’re Beautiful means to him. When Prince Harry took his girlfriend Cressida Bonas to a Blunt gig in London this week, you can bet it was to smooch to this song. Much of the malice is because of his famous song You’re Beautiful. Not because he’s upset but because he’s a former soldier who has learned to roll with the punches. “But maybe after the event.” He trails off. I didn’t think of it that way when I wrote it and only used those words because Always Love Me isn’t as interesting. He said: “It’s not a two fingers up to my critics. The new album has a song called Always Hate Me, which is actually about an ex-girlfriend. I went home and washed my clothes and then I headed off to Los Angeles to start writing my fourth album because music is in my blood and I was excited about what I wanted to do.” “I toured the last album for two years straight. “I read about my ‘retirement to my yacht in Ibiza with my supermodel girlfriend’ when I was in the studio recording songs – my girlfriend is a lawyer and my yacht in Ibiza is a blow-up dinghy. I enjoying turning up to a show and seeing people joining in. He has learned to deflect the insults with humour and the continuing success of his career. Like Mumford & Sons, he is harshly criticised, despite being well loved and well bought by music fans – even his mum has defended him. Some music fans whooped with joy only to discover that he was messing with us and was recording his fourth album Moon Landing.īut then the 39-year-old has every right to be playful. LAST year James Blunt claimed he was retiring from music.