James Blunt

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At the end of 2021, James Blunt released a greatest hits album. "Or as I like to call it — The Greatest Hit And Songs I Wish You'd Heard," he says, which, as anyone who follows his X/Twitter account will tell you, is a very James Blunt thing to say: it's self-deprecating, funny, and predicated on the recurrent gag that the only James Blunt song anyone knows or cares about is his multi-platinum 2005 single 'You're Beautiful.'

In fact, the greatest hits album (it was called The Stars Beneath My Feet, for the avoidance of doubt) rounded up the first 17 years of a career that feels extraordinary by anyone's standards. He was an artist who appeared to come out of nowhere — the first gig James Blunt ever attended was the first gig James Blunt ever performed, shortly after leaving the army in 2002 — and immediately released the biggest-selling album of the decade: Back To Bedlam shifted over 12 million copies.

For more information: James Blunt at Foxwoods | Mashantucket, CT