James Blunt chats to ilikemusic.com

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.
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