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真不错

James Blunt

刚买了他的《Back to Bedlam》的CD，感觉他的歌适合每首歌听完后留段时间回味一下再去听下一首，象我这样常常是一边做事一边听歌的一心两用者就会有点觉得平淡了，一不注意就演变成了耳朵里的一团声音，没了感觉。下面这个是他官方网站里对他的背景介绍，还蛮有趣的，总结一下就是：出生在一个从公元995年就开始在军队供职的家族里，大学里修的专业是空间制造工程和社会学，每天上课所做的事就是在教室后面的的地上睡觉。有一天这一觉就睡到了科索沃，他成了英国派到科索沃的第一批维和部队的陆军上尉。那首《you're beautiful》就是在当时科索沃的坦克里写的。。。

http://www.jamesblunt.com/

James Blunt’s family have served in one kind of army or another since 995A.D. A long line of warriors. Savages really. Not a musical bone in any one of their bodies. The only music he heard growing up was “Happy Birthday” and “Silent Night”. His father considered all music, even classical, to be unnecessary noise. Although James was not one to rock the family boat, he didn’t really think he was going to join the army – it sort of crept up on him. Plus his family didn’t have a boat. Aged fourteen he just held the teenage conviction that he would have an interesting life – maybe that’s why he picked the guitar? Then again, maybe if he hadn’t, he would have tripped over it. He went to University and studied Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering and Sociology, spending most lectures asleep on the floor at the back. In much the same way, he ended up in the army. In essence, one day he was sleeping off a hangover at the back of a sociology lecture hall and the next thing he knew he was in Kosovo with a gun and a guitar strapped to the side of a tank, wondering who he could possibly sleep with to get out of this war. To break up the super attenuated monotony, James would sometimes stroll through Serb villages wearing an East German cap singing, “All we are saying is give peace a chance”. “We were peace-keepers at that point,” he explained, shrugging helplessly.

So how did the music get into him, you might ask? Well if you were sent to boarding school aged seven, studied Engineering by mistake (“I thought we were going to fly planes, but we just pulled metals apart – the brochure was very misleading.”), joined the army by default, guarded The Queen, buried The Queen Mother and pranced around London like a tit for Japanese tourists to photograph, what you’re going to want to do very much after that, besides getting stoned and laid, is put your gun down, pick up a guitar and make an album in America with Linda Perry. So James came to Los Angeles in September 2003 to record with Tom Rothrock et al. At night he’d go to bars, bringing with him his valuable British accent (in the U.K., too posh for some people – in LA, the best thing she’d heard all night) and the fact that like 50 Cent he’d been shot at numerous times, but unlike the Cent, had dodged the bullets. One song, “Goodbye My Lover”, was recorded in his landladies’ bathroom (“She was a frequenter of mental hospitals and in general, a freak – but pleasant”) where, naturally, she kept a piano.

From birth in a military hospital in Tidworth, to Harrow School, to Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering, to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, to The Household Cavalry, to Kosovo, to Buckingham Palace, to a recording studio in Los Angeles. How did James get from there to here? Only James Blunt’s hairdresser knows for certain, and either he isn’t talking or James cuts his own hair, and it’s up to you to join the dots – there are ten of them on the album.

Written by The Landlady

其实，在那首《you're beautiful》的MV里还真没觉得这个James Blunt很帅（也许是被那漫天飘飞的雪花冻到了哦），后来偶尔在一条娱乐新闻里看到他出席一个什么颁奖仪式，就感觉真人要比MV里帅，而且很有点绅士感觉，和大部分的摇滚歌手形象差别很大。所以就也将他算在会唱歌的帅哥里啦。

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