Summary
IT IS PROBABLY BEST TO MAKE your peace now with James Blunt, as the posh, former army officer with the reedy voice isn't going anywhere. With sales of his debut Back to Bedlam now past the 11 million mark, it has become the best-selling album of the millennium. Hmm ... what do all those model and actress girlfriends see in this unlikely international playboy?
Inevitably, its recent followup All the Lost Souls languishes in the shade of its predecessor. Despite Blunt's fine talk of aspiring to the 1970s MOR template set by the likes of Fleetwood Mac and Steely Dan, he cannot hope to live up to such standards with singles as banal (even by Blunt standards) as the weedily nostalgic 1973, but there is still enough gas left in his tank from the massive success of You'reBeautiful to power him on into 2008.See the full content of this document
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Going Out: James Blunt
The all-conquerin...
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