Blunt sells flat with ivory keys ; WHO'S MOVING homes gossip

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: May 9, 2007 | Copyright information

FOR a chart-topping superstar like James Blunt it is small change compared with his annual royalties. But he has just received Pounds 325,000 for the two-bedroom Fulham home where he and his sister, Emily, lived for nine years.

The Edwardian terrace flat, above a Fulham Palace Road drycleaners, was where the Old Harrovian and former Household Cavalry officer wrote his early hits, including You're Beautiful and Goodbye My Love.

"James even left behind the piano on which he wrote...

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