Radio station bans crooner Blunt

Radio station bans crooner Blunt
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
James Blunt may be an Ivor Novello-award winner but his music is proving too much for the people of Essex to bear. Blunt's hit singles ...
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James Blunt may be an Ivor Novello-award winner but his music is proving too much for the people of Essex to bear.

Blunt's hit singles Goodbye My Lover and You're Beautiful have been banned by a radio station after frustrated listeners flooded Essex FM with complaints.

Programme controller Chris Cotton insisted it was nothing personal, but that listeners 'really need a break' from the ex-army officer's sound.

'Quite often there will be popular artists that people are starting to grow weary of,' Cotton told the Independent.

'This time, the number of specific comments about James Blunt were more than we have ever seen for one particular artist.'

Blunt may now be ruing his speech at the Ivor Novellos last week, where he told his critics: 'To all those b****** who don't like my music - you're all adults, you can switch your radio off.'

It appears they have taken him rather more literally than he intended.