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...“Nothing seems so simple anymore,” Stevens sings in “Genuflecting Ghost” over an acoustic-guitar melody....
...Debbie Harry and her fellow New York veterans were an unofficial adjunct to the so-called legends slot, which had been filled earlier on the same stage by Yusuf/Cat Stevens....
...Sufjan Stevens has been on a heavy musical trip lately....
...Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler remembered a half-hearted trip to detox where he spent his time listening to Exile on Main Street (“That wasn’t the time that got me sober”)....
...Few singer-songwriters have exercised that freedom as impressively as Sufjan Stevens over the past 20 years....
...He played on songs by Cat Stevens, Lou Reed, Elton John and T-Rex. Working with Bowie proved a turning point. “Back in 1971, when I did ‘Life on Mars?’...
...If inflation were to rise to 2.5 per cent a year over the four years of the freeze, says Steven Cameron, pensions director at Aegon, then someone on a salary of £60,000 would end up paying a total of £3,312...
...He has a close working relationship with another West Coast musical talisman, Steven “Flying Lotus” Ellison, on whose albums he has played and who has co-produced It Is What It Is....
...Steven Ellison’s latest album as Flying Lotus is bookended by the crackling of flames and has at its centre a recording of David Lynch telling a story of a fire menacing an all-American homestead....
...It is not quite uncharted territory — fellow travellers include Sufjan Stevens and Joanna Newsom — but it is mapped with skill and insight....
...The staging consisted of a large white screen in front of which the band and their touring drummer Steven Morrison stood, all dressed in black....
...Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister Planetarium (4AD) “This was such an epic endeavour because the universe is constantly expanding,” Sufjan Stevens says of Planetarium, a 75-minute...
...Steven Cameron, pensions director at Aegon, said: “The commitment to provide an additional £650m of funding for social care will offer some relief to councils struggling with ever-increasing demands....
...“Speak to the companies you work for and test the water,” says Ian Dyall, head of estate planning at Tilney, a wealth manager....
...The threesome — Kayus Bankole, Graham Hastings and Alloysious Massaquoi — stood in front of their touring drummer, Steven Morrison....
...Steven Cameron, pensions director at Aegon, has said the two aims of saving for a home and saving for retirement are “incompatible” as they require very different investment strategies....
A typically energetic, passionate show was hamstrung by Springsteen’s choice of material
...But at certain cues — as when Stevens sang, “How did this happen?” — the music became more complex....
...“We think the Fed lost the plot around the time of QE3,” says Gareth Lewis, chief investment officer at Tilney Bestinvest....
...However, as if to palliate Morrissey’s dismay at parting company with the likes of Homer, it has been designed to look like a vintage Penguin novel, the kind of orange paperback that the young Steven Patrick...
...Steven Richards, associate director at Thesis Asset Management, says he is considering “taking profits” from the investment trusts he holds and investing the money in more globally focused open-ended funds...
...Clive Stevens, executive chairman of Kreston Reeves, an accountancy firm, said there was a sense of urgency for affected individuals, who often ran consultancies or other personal service businesses....
...“The further cut in interest rates means now is probably the worst time ever to be making a retirement decision, with those buying an annuity today locking in to super-low returns for life,” said Steven...
...But the US trio — originally a solo vehicle for frontman Ryan Lott, soundtrack composer and occasional collaborator with Sufjan Stevens — prove too bombastic over the long haul....
...Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty) “We all know how this will end,” Sufjan Stevens sings in Carrie & Lowell....
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