Stephen Alexander James
Alex James is the bass player for the band Blur. Which means....that he plays the bass. Alex is the only member of Blur who was not classically trained in music. And yes, I'm reading this straight out of a magazine. ; ) Anyway, I guess this means that Alex was brought up listening to rock 'n' roll like the rest of us normal kids (;)), rather than brought up listening to Beethoven every morning over tea and crumpets and a copy of the Wall Street Journal. Not that there's anything wrong with that. ; ) Yes, Alex was brought up with Led Zeppelin and KISS, which is one of the many reasons for his little-publicized mental breakdown when he was 12. They carted him off to Charter, singing "Rock And Roll All Nite" the whole way. After he was released for good behavior, Alex decided he needed to join a good, hard, heavy metal band in order to vent his frustrations. You can therefore imagine his distress when he agreed one night in a drunken stupor to join Blur. He arrived at band rehearsal the next day, prepared to thrash some White Zombie tunes on his bass, and had yet another mental breakdown when Blur began playing "Clover Over Dover." This breakdown was a bit worse than his previous one, and for six weeks Alex suffered delusions that he was an astronaut on the moon. As a result, when he finally came back to Blur, resigned to the fact that he was to spend the rest of his musical career playing peppy Britpop tunes and going "La, lalalala," Alex began writing such complex songs as "Far Out," which recited planets and moons and stuff. So that's the story of Alex James and his astronomy fettish, none of which was true, but all of which explains why he is so obsessed with space better than anything he could come up with. ; )
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