Story Highlight
He's the Chirpy Chappy and he's Brills!
JAMES MORRISON was live at Key103 with Mike & Chelsea - The chirpy cockney chappy was back and very funny.
It's been a while since we last saw James... actually it was a tent at the City of Manchester stadium. But now him and his great teeth are back.
As the title of James Morrison’s third and by far best album suggests, The Awakening is the sound of an artist coming of age. In his personal life, Morrison has become a father, while losing his own father after the latter’s long battle with alcoholism and depression. At the same time, Morrison, 26, has matured as a singer, songwriter and musician, enabling him to channel all of that emotion into his most accomplished collection of songs yet. “My first two albums felt like practice shots,” he says, “and now I’ve graduated.
In many ways this feels like my first proper album.” Practice shots they may have been, but those first two albums – Undiscovered (2006) and Songs for You, Truths for Me (2008) – have sold a combined total of 4.5m copies and yielded an astonishing ten singles, including You Give Me Something, Wonderful World, The Pieces Don’t Fit Anymore and the global smash Broken Strings, featuring Nelly Furtado. Those practice shots turned Morrison into an international star.
Listen again to the whole interview - in it he talks about his annoyance with Nelly Furtado, His Superhero power and also YOUR questions too (including one about Whooping Cough).
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