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詹姆斯·布朗特来自军人家庭的歌手 　　Some ageing rockstar once said that what he feared most, in a musical sense, was the songwriting well running dry. Thats something thats unlikely to ever worry James Blunt. He has, it can be said without1)exaggeration, lived a life that should provide enough material for a dozen albums, with2)sufficient left over for a couple of3)screenplays. This is a4)distinctly different singer-songwriter. 　　Take No Bravery,the song that closes his debut album, fack to Bedlam,for instance: It was written in5)Kosovo in 1999, while James was a6)reconnaissance officer in the British army. On7)patrol around Pristina, he kept his guitar bolted to the outside of his tank. But in quieter moments it came out, as he wrote about life as a 22-year-old8)peacekeeper in the9)aftermath of one of the decades bloodiest civil wars. The rest of his unit ordered him to keep the noise down as he wrote and sang in the post-midnight10)stillness. But he didnt keep the noise down. 以No Bravery?is the only complete song I wrote in Kosovo. I wrote it lying by my tank in my sleeping bag with my boots on. You had to sleep with your boots on. The song is pretty11)fatalistic. The rest of the album is fatalistic,?he says12)wryly. 　　Whats odd is that a13)military family like the Blunts-his father, a career14)Colonel, has only recently left the army-should15)spawn someone like James. As he tells it, his16)upbringing was the traditional sort that17)scarcely seems to exist anymore: Born in an army hospital in18)Hampshire, he was sent to boarding school at seven,19)excelled at science and maths, got a pilots license at 16, did a spell at Bristol University, and then, because my dad was pushing for it,joined the army. He eventually made20)Captain, and was the first British officer into Pristina, leading a column of 30,000 peacekeeping21)troops. 　　Music, though, has always been his22)mainstay. At 14, he wrote his first song. And he made himself unpopular with the school housemaster, who knew tha