"I am a one-hit wonder. I know this, because when I walk down the street, strangers call out, 'Hey James! You're Beautiful!' I try to act all blasé, and say, 'Ha! I see what you did there...' but really, I'm thinking, 'Cunts'."
With these words singer/songwriter James Blunt - you might know him for his 2005 UK/US number one single You're Beautiful, or perhaps for the fact that its parent album, Back to Bedlam, is the biggest-selling debut album ever in the UK by a British artist - introduces his riotous and outrageous 'non-memoir' Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story. "This book is inspired by true events but is not a biography", Blunt has pointed out, which may become increasingly clear as readers are treated to surreal anecdotes about the singer dating "40 or 60 per cent" of The Pussycat Dolls, living with the late Carrie 'Princess Leia' Fisher, and er, eating his own poo from American actor Jamie Foxx's hotel toilet, allegedly on the advice of survivalist Bear Grylls.
