All Cheeses Great and Small: A Life Less Blurry by Alex James – review

Former Blur bassist Alex James's memoir of farming life swaps pop excess for crumpets and polytunnels"Thor sent 150 Hell's Angels to escort us from the airport into Reykjavik," wrote Alex James in his 2007 autobiography Bit of a Blur, a typical bit of swank in a book about the bass player's years with the pop band Blur. In that volume James was never far from revealing, casually, a 1998 fad for huge bottles of champagne known as Balthazars ("You really need to put it on your shoulder to pour fro...

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