Blunt was born James Hillier Blount on 22 February 1974 at Tidworth Camp military hospital, then in Hampshire. His mother, Jane Ann Farran (née Amos), started a ski chalet company in the French Alpine resort of … See more

Having been sponsored through university on an army bursary, Blunt was committed to serve a minimum of four years in the armed forces. He trained at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in intake 963, and was co… See more

Blunt had piano and violin lessons as a child, but was introduced to the electric guitar aged 14 at Harrow by a fellow student. His dissertation at Bristol University was entitled The Commodification of Image – Productio… See more