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a soldier's story; Fresh from the British Army, James Blunt is the U.K.'s newest rock star.(Brief Article)(Biography)
Byline: Lauren Collins
Despite the fact that he recently surpassed Coldplay on the British pop charts, James Blunt wasn't exactly born to be a rock star. For one thing, the house he grew up in didn't have a CD player. (His father considered music "noise.") At twelve, Blunt was off to Harrow, a boarding school better known for producing statesmen than singer/songwriters. It was there that he decided to become a musician, after hearing someone play guitar in the hallway of his dormitory.
After Harrow and university, it was on to what, for an aspiring musician, was perhaps an even less ...
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