Jane Blount says Harrow-educated son has faced 'harsh criticism', amid claims musicians are too middle class James Blunt's mother today waded into the debate about whether pop stars these days are too posh, emailing the BBC to complain that her Harrow-educated son was subject to "harsh criticism" because of his privileged background. The suggestion that at least 60% of contemporary chart pop and rock acts feature former public school pupils was first raised in a recent issue of the music magazine The Word . The rise of privately educated performers such as Lily Allen, Florence Welch and Chris Martin, it was suggested, spelled the end of working-class guitar heroes. According to the magazine's editor, Mark Ellen, in the past the rich were not interested in popular arts. "If they dabbled in the performing arts at all," he wrote, "it would be within the highbrow ghettos: opera, ballet, classical theatre. In the past 10 years, the well-heeled young...
Comments