Back to Bedlam
Occupation
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Production
- Tom Rothrock
- Jimmy Hogarth
- Linda Perry
Back to Bedlam is the debut album of the British musician James Blunt and was published in 2004 by Custard Records. In Germany, the album was released in late summer 2005.
Formation
Tom Rothrock produced and mixed the album, he and Jimmy Hogarth produced the song Wisemen, and Linda Perry the last track No Bravery. Blunt was involved as a songwriter in all his songs.
Track list
Success
In the UK, sales of the album was initially rather slow, but it reached in July 2005, the first place in the album charts and has since been awarded with 2.868 million copies sold in 2005 for best-selling British album of the year. The New Musical Express is still appointed to the " Worst Album of the Year ".
Following the success of the single You're Beautiful and Back to Bedlam reached in many countries worldwide the first place. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland it was number one and reached the first place in the top ten of the U.S. Billboard charts.
Singles
The songs High, Wisemen You're Beautiful and Goodbye My Lover were released as singles in this order.
Blunts singles were initially published with one B- side, high and Wisemen are later appeared with other B - sides. From You're Beautiful, there are different versions ( for example, a version with the text "fucking high" and the censored version with "flying high").
From high, there are two videos: In a blunt is to see how he is first buried in the desert and later in a drunken state pursues a girl while in the second version in a kind of clinic guitar plays and in other scenes noticeably relieved by a run forest. " High" was the anthem for the advertising campaign of the T -Com for the Football World Cup 2006 in Germany. Europe also we saw the song in a commercial for Vodafone, in the U.S. it was used for Hilton Hotels. Among other things, he was also the series Grey's Anatomy used.
All music and making-of videos were on the bonus DVD of the album Back to Bedlam: The Bedlam Sessions republished.