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Speaker 1: Jam Mission with James and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: We all love our next guest. He's a great favorite

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Speaker 2: of ours. He's the British superstar famous for making us cry,

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Speaker 2: telling us we're beautiful. He's just released his greatest hits album,

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Speaker 2: The Stars Beneath My Feet. It also features four brand

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Speaker 2: new songs, and he's joining us now. James Blunt.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Hi guys, how are you? Amanda? James's very very

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Speaker 3: nice to see you. It's been so long. Oh right,

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Speaker 3: you kind when.

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Speaker 1: You came into our little studio. That's our studio has

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Speaker 1: got bigger.

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Speaker 2: No, it hasn't.

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Speaker 3: I mean it looked fancy, guys. It looks like looks

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Speaker 3: like it looks like we're about to start on some

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Speaker 3: kind of talent show. This is a lack of talent

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Speaker 3: show that's bereft of talent. Well, the name in the

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Speaker 3: right place.

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Speaker 1: Thank god you're here.

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Speaker 2: It's so nice to see you again. Last time we

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Speaker 2: spoke to you, I think you were starting to plan

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Speaker 2: a tour. Am I right? And you came out of

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Speaker 2: lockdown long before we did. How's that going?

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Speaker 3: Super Well? The virus is over here. We don't have

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Speaker 3: any more coronavirus in the UK. The pandemic is over

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Speaker 3: and we're out doing concerts. My pub that I have

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Speaker 3: in Chelsea is packed for the people and we're back

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Speaker 3: to normal, living the dream.

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Speaker 1: You are living the dream. But the Greatest Hits album,

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Speaker 1: this is a sign that you've truly made it. Whenever

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Speaker 1: I look at my record collection, You've got like Queen's

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Speaker 1: Greatest Hits, the Eagles Greatest Hits, Fluwood Mac's Greatest Hits,

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Speaker 1: now James Blunt's Greatest Hits exactly.

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Speaker 3: I mean, what a moment. I wanted to call it

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Speaker 3: greatest hit and the songs I wish you'd heard, but

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Speaker 3: I have gone for gone for the stars beneath my

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Speaker 3: feet instead. And you know, it's kind of weird moment

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Speaker 3: when you put out of the Greatest Hits you kind of think, hell,

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Speaker 3: does that? Does that mean I'm being put out to

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Speaker 3: pasture and it's over? But I'm very but I feel relieve.

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Speaker 3: My record label just gave me a new record deal

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Speaker 3: a couple of days ago, so I'm still in. I'm

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Speaker 3: still in the job.

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Speaker 1: Is it worth it financially and we don't have to

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Speaker 1: get down to tintext here? Is it worth it financially

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Speaker 1: for you? You personally to put out a gradus hits album.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure the record label are trying to milk every

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Speaker 3: song as much as they possibly can. They wouldn't do

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Speaker 3: it for any other reason, but on this, you know.

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Speaker 3: But for me it's been genuinely exciting. I you know,

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Speaker 3: been to on tour for seventeen years, and then the

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Speaker 3: pandemic forced me to go home halfway through a tour,

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Speaker 3: you know, and then and there was a real time

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Speaker 3: to reflect on what the hell had happened for seventeen

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Speaker 3: years and start going through my favorite moments. It's my

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Speaker 3: favorite performance from our most famous festival in the UK, Glastonbury,

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Speaker 3: a live performance of a song which I never nailed

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Speaker 3: in the studio but I really can nail it live

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Speaker 3: for a song called I Really Want You and you

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Speaker 3: Know Again, and some songs that were lost on extended

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Speaker 3: versions of albums in foreign countries like Japan, which you're

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Speaker 3: never going to find those songs, but some of them

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Speaker 3: are my best and so to put that on this

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Speaker 3: best of album means it's a collection of work that

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Speaker 3: really means a lot to me that I think my

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Speaker 3: supporters will really like you or if you're the kind

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Speaker 3: of person who kind of wishes James Blunt had only

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Speaker 3: ever put out one album, well, this is that album.

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Speaker 2: How did you go about choosing which ones? You've just said,

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Speaker 2: you've chosen the ones that you think you absolutely now

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Speaker 2: than your favorite songs. Does a record label ever say no,

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Speaker 2: we want this one, this one, this one. Do you

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Speaker 2: all agree?

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Speaker 3: We had a really open discussion about it, and you know,

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Speaker 3: you can say, hey, well, you know that was the

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Speaker 3: lead single off that album, but if it didn't do

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Speaker 3: especially well, then I would say it didn't do well,

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Speaker 3: and that's you know, people that like it. So rather

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Speaker 3: than have that, let's, you know, I get feedback from people.

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Speaker 3: I can get sense that feedback much faster than a

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Speaker 3: record label. And they kind of got that, and they said,

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Speaker 3: come on, then choose the songs that really mean something

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Speaker 3: to you, that will mean something to the people who

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Speaker 3: enjoy your music, and there's hopefully who don't.

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Speaker 1: And it must be amazing to perform at Glastonbury, just

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Speaker 1: to be up there on stage and just see that

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Speaker 1: sea of people and mud and portaloos, it must be extraordinary.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you know, and the song we have from

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Speaker 3: that performance was a really special moment. It was when

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Speaker 3: of the times when I jumped off the stage and

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Speaker 3: I went and crowdsurfed in there in the audience. For

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Speaker 3: a moment, I thought I was cool, which for me

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Speaker 3: is a rarity. And I got back to the stage,

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Speaker 3: having been eighty thousand people in front of me. And

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Speaker 3: I got back to the stage and the stage was

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Speaker 3: too high for me to climb back on. And then

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Speaker 3: and I looked up at the there was a stranger

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Speaker 3: on the stage. I didn't recognize the man. I started

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Speaker 3: shouting to him, help me, help me, and I suddenly

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Speaker 3: was the BBC TV cameraman broadcasting live to the nation.

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Speaker 3: And I was basically looking down the bowel of the

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Speaker 3: lens to the nation, shouting help me, cementing my place

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Speaker 3: as the least cool human being on the planet.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen that. The recent thing

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Speaker 1: that woman in Florida who who weed on a fan,

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Speaker 1: not like a fan fan, like an actual fan of

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Speaker 1: the show.

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Speaker 3: These are the trends that people set. I have a

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Speaker 3: concert tomorrow, you know, I know, I know this is

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Speaker 3: now a trend and I will be taking that on.

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Speaker 1: But you know, this could be a new range of merchandise.

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Speaker 1: James Blunt drinking we speak.

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Speaker 3: We're to prepare for it.

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Speaker 1: Well, James, We're always happy to talk to you. The

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Speaker 1: greatest Hide album, The Stars Beneath My Feet, is out

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Speaker 1: on Friday. James Blunt, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 3: On Friday, same day as Adele, which I don't know

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Speaker 3: how that that was a confus. She must be very nervous.

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Speaker 1: She's quaking in her boots.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Taylor Swift in fact did have her album come

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Speaker 3: out the same day. And when Taylor realized that her

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Speaker 3: album's come out the same day as mine, I know

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Speaker 3: she changed the release dates. So that's a surprise that

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Speaker 3: Adele hasn't changed it yet. She didn't get and say

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Speaker 3: we didn't want to have done the interviews.

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Speaker 1: James, all the best to you and the family.

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Speaker 3: Look after you so did talk to you. So nice

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Speaker 3: to see you guys. I love the new studio. I

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Speaker 3: can't wait to come and see it side you Lovely

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Speaker 2: Jonesy and Amanda'samnation