In brief: CS Lewis’s Oxford; True Love; Loosely Based on a Made-Up Story – review
A fascinating study of CS Lewis’s years in his adopted city; an excellent gritty romance by Paddy Crewe; and James Blunt enters the music memoir hall of fame
May 2024
News of the World paid women to sleep with celebrities, James Blunt says
Tabloid had women on payroll to get stories about people’s sexual performance, singer tells Hay festival
February 2024
Lunch with...
James Blunt: ‘Have I changed and grown up? No, not really’
Over lunch as he turns 50, the singer tells a host of wild celebrity tales, involving Ed Sheeran and Bear Grylls, and admits that, just sometimes, the criticism can sting
December 2023
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder review – soldier-turned-singer’s brilliant Twitter game
The witty singer’s superb comeback is a delight to behold in this entertaining fly-on-the-wall documentary
October 2023
Flashback
James Blunt looks back: ‘After a few days at boarding school I asked, “When are my parents coming back?”’
The singer-songwriter on his best friend Carrie Fisher, being lonely, and bad advice from Gene Simmons
August 2023
This much I know
James Blunt: ‘The first time I crowdsurfed, I fell flat on the floor’
The singer, 49, tells Michael Segalov about surviving boarding school and Kosovo, partying in Ibiza and tinkering with his Wiki page
February 2022
James Blunt review – larky king of uncool turns on the emotion
Kicking off an arena tour, the self-deprecating noughties singer-songwriter shows he is not the one-hit wonder he jokes he is, with a range spanning beige balladeering to fists-clenched intensity
January 2022
James Blunt jokes he will release new music on Spotify in Rogan protest
Singer-songwriter adds his own twist to boycott by Joni Mitchell and Neil Young over platform’s promotion of anti-vax podcasts
November 2021
The Q&A
James Blunt: ‘I walk up to strangers and tell them they’re beautiful’
The singer-songwriter on crowd-surfing at Glastonbury and why he wants to apologise to the British public
November 2020
Life on a plate
James Blunt: ‘My body has not been a temple. I’ve put it through painful experiences’
The singer talks about sharing rations with the Russians, after-party toasties and his mum’s signature dish
February 2020
James Blunt review – beige balladeer turns up the self-deprecating charm
Blunt brings his social media wit to a Valentine’s day show in which the best moments are the most personal
January 2020
How we made
James Blunt: how we made You're Beautiful
‘It’s portrayed as a romantic song but it’s actually a bit creepy. It’s about a guy – me – stalking someone else’s girlfriend while high’
October 2019
A welfare system that drives mothers into prostitution is not a safety net
Barbara Ellen
Universal credit was definitively discredited by the testimony of a few brave women
Modern Toss
Modern Toss
On the best of James Blunt ...
‘It’s my greatest shame’: who’s playing James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful in 2019?
As the 15th anniversary of the hit song arrives, is it time to reassess this harshly appraised ballad?
September 2019
First look review
Greed review – Steve Coogan gleams in knockabout satire of the mega-rich
Michael Winterbottom’s entertaining mockumentary about a high-street fashion tycoon presents a hideous carnival of obscene wealth, vanity and moral squalor
August 2017
James Blunt announces Australia tour after stint as Ed Sheeran's 'bitch'
UK singer-songwriter says he has really enjoyed supporting Sheeran on tour in the US and the pair might perform together next year
April 2017
This much I know
James Blunt: 'I’m always ready for the enemy to come over the hill'
The singer, 43, on what the army taught him, why he never takes no for an answer, and how he taught Ed Sheeran to ski
March 2017
James Blunt: The Afterlove review – likable isn’t listenable
James Blunt: The Afterlove review – slightly desperate and actively risible
