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but showed considerable variety and, by this time, he had developed a massive following and was the headline act at numerous concerts and festivals. It is perhaps incongruous that he has remained well known and relevant to new generations through his humorous and self-deprecating Twitter (now X) posts when faced with insulting messages: ‘Nobody likes James Blunt!’ – ‘Yeah – I bought those 20 million albums myself!’ ‘James Blunt is on the TV downstairs, can this day get any worse?’ – ‘I’m coming upstairs now!’ Such is their popularity that a bestselling book was compiled, titled: How To Be A Complete and Utter Blunt.
James Blunt has never forgotten his army roots, as a patron for the charity Help for Heroes. He also supports Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), after seeing their work Kosovo.
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