User talk:Risker/Revamp

moved over here for now:

Ref review

 * 1, 2: Look for better refs for his age/DOB.  ?review from a concert on one of his birthdays
 * 3 - does not say "best-selling album of the 2000s in UK" and is written in 2008
 * 4 - dead link
 * 5 - find a better ref, this is Hello (a gossip mag)
 * 6 - Telegraph "Trooper" article
 * 6a - does have info re being born in hospital
 * 6b - okay
 * 6c - not great, better refs out there
 * 6d - okay, but there are newer refs, keep looking
 * 6e


 * 7 - okay. London Gazette
 * 8 - Rolling Stone
 * 8a (pilot's license at 16) confirmed
 * 8b (university courses) aerospace engineering only, nil about sociology,
 * 8c confirms Sandhurst
 * Possible additions: "has vacationed in Ibiza since he was 14"....summer/winter differences in songwriting....lived in Cyprus, Northern English countryside and a lake house in Germany as a boy, moving q2years....elstree at age 7....early songs "teenage angst"...relationship with girl who inspired YB....posting to Canada, posting to ski team (no dates), "testing his psychological threshold"...near death experience in Mexico...ATLS written at the piano in Ibiza...defining success, reason for writing, not for others just for self.


 * 9 - Sunday Times - okay. Can also be used for flying.
 * 10 - perfect.
 * 11a&b - okay. London Gazette
 * 12 - okay. London Gazette
 * 13 - look for a better ref source, this one probably okay but pretty sure this is also reported elsewhere
 * 14 - Q magazine
 * 14a -
 * 14b
 * 15 - Guitar World Acoustic Magazine
 * 15a- (NB in Kosovo)yes
 * 15b - (left army in 2002) says 2001 in article...not correct, based on military doc'n
 * some useful info on equipment used (early - electricc guitar not named), Seagull taken to Kosovo (story about falling over and crushing guitar while record execs watched), 1966 Gibson J-45 (used when getting deal and recording album), 1958 Gibson LG-1. details for NB, YB, High writing process.
 * 16 - okay I think....London Gazette
 * 17 - okay, details the date of the program (week 8-14 January 2001) but does not name Blunt
 * 18 - Sun article (includes photo from program, ID's Blunt)
 * 19 - doesn't say he was in procession
 * 20 - okay. London Gazette
 * 21 - Performing Songwriter
 * 21a - (Harrow, age 14)
 * 21b
 * 21c
 * 21d
 * 21e
 * 22 - Q Magazine
 * 23 - Rolling Stone
 * 24 - Billboard 2007
 * 24a
 * 24b
 * 24c
 * 24d
 * 24e
 * 24f
 * 24g
 * 24h
 * 24i
 * 25 - link still good, supports comments
 * 26


 * 55 (Strut magazine) - quote confirmed. might be a better one in another source. Commentary about the parodies, preferring Gleason's.


 * 56 - page 17. info confirmed

Early life

 * mother's maiden name ("My Family Tree", Daily Mail (London_, March 18, 2006 - see scan. Also explains Hillier middle name)
 * childhood locations

Education

 * Elstree school (see my email) http://www.elstreeschool.org.uk/index.php/component/content/article/197-x-factor-star-danyl-johnson-a-role-model
 * Harrow, particularly Elmfield house (Harrow Record Autumn 2005 - I have a scan. Same article talks about school choirs, recorder-->violin-->piano, doing grades)

Military

 * strengthen refs for Suffield deployment
 * need to include a ref for the quote in the first para or consider something else there e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4701924.stm
 * beef up refs for first two sentences of 2nd para. BBC links from 2010 or 2011
 * Refs for ski team assignment.
 * ref re length of training for riding assignment
 * see if any info verifies participation in Queen Mum's funeral procession.

Some Kind of Trouble
Metacritic

Different Country, Same State
Notes from Different Country, Same State: On the Road with James Blunt, Peter Hardy, 2010 Headline Review, London. ISBN 978 0 7553 1994 7


 * List of touring band members p.3
 * P.4 - dissertation, sisters, guitar strapped to tank
 * P.6 18 million albums sold by date of publication
 * P.2 - autographs post gigs
 * P.36 - BTB marketing, monkey king logo
 * P.42 - background for So Long Jimmy
 * P.48 - thoughts about charts
 * P.71 - meet & greets
 * P.73 - "ordinary guy"
 * P.82 - rewards of performing, Petra
 * P.93 - first in Kosovo
 * P.111 - Ski team
 * P.117 - ICHTM
 * P.125 - Miranda (?significance)
 * P.155 - Wisemen
 * P.164 - Cyprus
 * P.166 - Help for Heros, MSF
 * P.168 - One of the Brightest Stars
 * P.201 - IRWY
 * P.214 - 1973
 * P.225 - Management
 * P.238 - CYH
 * P.268 - Give me some Love
 * P.302 - the girl in the songs
 * P.305 - tour staff

Useful refs
Appearance/narration for The Volunteer documentary with former classmade Hugo Chittenden: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23839240-a-very-private-education.do and http://www.contactmusic.com/news/blunt-adds-star-power-to-documentary_1145213

According to Blunt, his family moved frequently when he was a child "We started in the south of England, then Cyprus, Germany, then back to the north of England."

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