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...It opens with chuckling patter from a DJ by the befuddling name of Billy Bob Bo Bob who is somehow broadcasting Earth’s tunes to the rest of the universe....
...“The idea that your dress is hanging in the same closet as things by Bob Mackie is really great,” he says. Who else can he imagine dressing? “Isabelle Huppert or maybe Angela Merkel,” he grins....
...This year visitors will flock to Óbuda Island on the Danube to see Billie Eilish, David Guetta, Mumford & Sons and Lorde, among others....
...I would guess that a lot of people would happily pay for a $15-a-month Harry Styles or Billie Eilish subscription, if the artists asked them directly....
..., silent women, such as the uncredited Suze Rotolo on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan....
...At first, Christine, her husband Felix (Mark Strong, somewhat wasted) and primary-school-aged daughter Bobs (Billie Gadsdon) are wary, but they are soon won over....
...While growing up she immersed herself in the work of Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday. From them she learnt to hone her exceptional gift for phrasing....
...The setlist spanned big-hitting ballads and R&B: from the tender cover of Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love” on her debut album 19 and her extravagant Bond theme, “Skyfall”, to the divorce confessionals...
...When Bob Mackie arrived at the Met Gala in 2019, he says he was “flabbergasted” to be acknowledged by his fellow guests....
...Banners of Keir Hardie, Clement Attlee and Karl Marx bob like sails above an ocean of celebrants, sound and sunburn....
...Lady Gaga took the Bob Geldof role, assembling Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and others for the primetime concert....
...I was at Reading festival in 1992 when Nirvana played what was to be their last gig in the UK; I saw the teenage superstar Billie Eilish play one of her first at the same festival 27 years later....
...He can hold his own at karaoke, usually belting out Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues”. Tell-it-straight pragmatism (some call it gruffness) has defined his 35-year career at AT&T....
...Stone was last in London with his searing production of Lorca’s Yerma starring Billie Piper....
...A well-executed version of Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” revealed a taste for gothic-toned, literary songwriting: Cash is a published short-story writer herself....
...“It’s Tony Stark, it’s Iron Man,” test pilot Billie Flynn tells me. The $400,000 headgear renders a pilot more machine than man....
...And yet, for some years before this, jazz singers such as Billie Holiday (co-writer of “God Bless the Child”) were singing their hearts out in very personal terms....
...It certainly makes sense to Bob Landry, chief investment officer for USAA....
...One is real: in 1955, a 14-year-old boy, Emmett Till, was lynched, a murder referred to in songs by The Staple Singers and Bob Dylan. The other is fictional: Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe”....
...Bobbie Gentry's understated ballad was reworked by jazz musicians, the 'rebel-country' movement and Motown - and even parodied by Bob Dylan. Ian McCann traces its history...
...She strayed into Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Scream 3 (2000), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) and others....
...of sharply worded rhyming followed the opening line “No more political monsters”; then came syllable-crunching wordplay on “We’re living in a po-lice-state”, and oblique, beautifully sung references to Billie...
...Unable to feature Van Halen in the video — his record company wouldn’t permit it — director Bob Giraldi went for real-life edge....
...Pop music is particularly prone to the style: the writer Greil Marcus is its high priest, lionising Elvis Presley or Bob Dylan as outsiders who changed everything....
...Pianist Alex Webb wrote and arranged the musical play Jazz at Café Society, which traced the history of the New York venue where Billie Holiday first performed “Strange Fruit”....
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