March 11, 2006 –
It’s that time again for Throwback Thursday featuring a favorite song, something about the song and a cover version of the song.
Today’s Throwback Thursday is slightly different: this is not a particular favorite tune of mine – the song in question naturally made me post the other versions. James Blunt’s single You’re Beautiful went to No. #1 on the Billboard charts on this date.
Blunt has said that he wrote this song about seeing his ex-girlfriend with a new man he didn’t know about on a train in the London underground. He says they shared a lifetime in their brief moment of eye contact. The words came to him all at once. The girl that inspired this song is Dixie Chassay, who works in the casting department on films. Blunt mentions her in the thank you note on his first album.
Weird Al Yankovic recorded a parody of this song called You’re Pitiful, but Blunt’s record label (Atlantic Records), blocked the release. Yankovic has allowed the song to be downloaded free.
Blunt performed this on a 2007 episode of Sesame Street as “A Triangle.” Apparently, Blunt has a thing for the three-sided shape. Sample lyric: “It must be those angles put a smile on my face, not to mention the hypotenuse.”
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