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Her 49th solo studio album features Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Stevie Nicks and Sting
...The administrator for the company at the centre of René Benko’s property empire has sacked the party planners, receptionists, hunters and private jet crew that together made up most of its staff, a court...
...You get “Christmas in Hollis” by Run-DMC, you get Salt-N-Pepa singing “Santa Baby”, you get “Merry Christmas Baby” by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band....
...In contrast, righteous anger and drum’n’bass sear Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman” as lyrics relate an abused woman’s descent into homelessness....
...Her Rising Star predecessor, Rag’n’Bone Man, released 2017’s second-best-selling UK album with his debut, the epitome of over-forceful singing and musical melodrama....
...SELL: N Brown (BWNG) The online retailer is losing customers in what appears to be a continuing trend, writes Christopher Akers....
...On Saturday, it was the turn of a dinosaurian Guns N’ Roses, making their Glastonbury debut. The kindest thing to say of this selection is that it would have been a coup in 1991....
...The group also includes photographer duo Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith, and Shela habitué Babu British, a linen-swathed local celebrity....
...The Tennessee-born singer, who has died aged 83, brought the tradition of blues and gospel shouters into the loudly amplified world of rock ’n’ soul in the 1960s....
...A decent rock’n’soul version, too. “We played Glastonbury for the first time!”...
...David drawls about carnal escapades and the fast life, from strutting stuff about sex ‘n’ drugs (“Feel”) to cabaret-rock about brewer’s droop (“Bla Bla Bla”)....
...The pick ‘n’ mix palette has been widened to incorporate fratboy-friendly rap-rock and irritatingly jaunty ska-pop, but the attitude remains the same. 100 Gecs essentially traffic in a guilty-pleasure recuperation...
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney is the FT’s pop critic Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner “took a knee” in Starmer’s office and the Labour leadership pledged to introduce a racial equality act....
...Opening number “Yum” instead sets the ball rolling with the story of a visit to a therapist, which then flips narrative into a manically recounted sex‘n’drugs binge set to an intense mechanistic beat....
...Skiffle was the pre-rock ‘n’ roll scene in which US folk and blues were translated into a British idiom....
...Starry accompanists include Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro and a posthumous appearance from Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins....
...The earliest recording is a crackly 1924 bluegrass relic, Uncle Dave Macon’s “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy”, which Dylan depicts as a proleptic blast of rock ’n’ roll....
...“I must have come past here a million times, we only live five minutes away,” Angela Smith, 59, told me as we stood on the spot of one of the most important UGRR stops near a river crossing outside Chicago...
...Climate change: Today, practically everyone above a certain net worth has a World-Saving Project or WSP, writes the novelist Andrew Hunter Murray....
...Lindsay Johnn of agent Strutt & Parker says she hears the word “Farleigh” from home hunters most days....
...Angela Hui is the author of “Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter” (Orion) Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Back then she was associated with a form of music known as “folktronica” (or, even more punningly, “strum ‘n’ bass”)....
...alluded to the same story as the one told in Tassili — of giraffes, elephants and ostriches flourishing here during the African Humid period, slowly being supplanted by pictures of cattle as the region’s hunter-gatherers...
...In one of three casts, Angela Gheorghiu sings Mimi — the role that made the Romanian soprano a star in her 1992 ROH debut....
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