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...I would also bring Arthur Conan Doyle back from the dead (he was a spiritualist, which must help)....
...The current version of the band belies any notion of musical amateurism: drummer Steve Goulding’s CV stretches from Roxy Music to David Bowie to Elvis Costello; Lu Edmonds, who plays eastern stringed instruments...
...Some objects are valuable only because they belonged to someone famous — think David Beckham’s football boots, Bowie’s record player or just about anything belonging to Napoleon....
...Arthur Marshall is 85 years old, but has a self-confessed “need for speed”....
...But he showed none here, sitting alone on a stool with a guitar, running through a set of Bowie covers recast as Lusaphone ballads....
...It was 1974 and Bowie was at his most vulnerable. “Cocaine, milk and milk were the main ingredients of his diet,” says Yentob....
...Arthur Kohn, a lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb who advises companies on corporate aircraft, says greater scrutiny of perks has prompted many groups to rethink their policies....
...David Bowie was my huge number-one hero as a teenager”. A monumental canvas in the new show, “Lady Grinning Soul”, pays homage. “I was madly in love with him and his beauty, the lyrics sound so great....
...On the pianist Arthur Rubinstein: “The greatest cocksman …[he] walked through life as though it was one big party.” On Rear Window (1954): “Everything is stupid about it....
...The only two books I’m sure I’ll take with me are L’arte di essere felici by Arthur Schopenhauer and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina....
...Retiring Santa (voiced by Jim Broadbent) lets his son Arthur (James McAvoy) charge across the Christmas skies with Arthur’s granddad (Bill Nighy) and a posse of pensionable reindeer. Mission?...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...The blend of modernist drive, abstract adventure and soulful roots still thrills, especially as the late Arthur Blythe’s uniquely melodic and soaring alto saxophone is a common element....
...Arthur H, a star across the Channel, sang like a Francophone Ian McCulloch in a voice of steak and tar....
...In the still unnamed new work, Clark revisits the late 1970s and invokes David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop: cue glitter, eye make-up and wearing of platforms, presumably. August 28-31....
...And immediately opposite, we have Samuel, Alice, Luke, Arthur, Tiffany, Kevin, Charlotte, Anna, Fiona, Milo, Francesca, Yannick, Sam, Tomase, Lola, Chloe, Alex, Luka, Clarence, Elliot, Bart, Isaac, Summer...
...Blood Red Snow White By Marcus Sedgwick Orion Books £9.99, 278 pages FT bookshop price: £7.99 Sedgwick tells of Arthur Ransome’s time in Bolshevik-era Russia, first as a journalist, then as a spy....
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