Hints and tips:
...Born in Deal to a family of restaurateurs, she met Benny Hod, her Israeli husband, in a diving shop in Honduras....
...I’m with American poet Dorothy Parker, or the lines sometimes attributed to her: “I like to have a martini/ Two at the very most/ After three I’m under the table/ After four I’m under my host.”...
...Collaborators abound, writing lyrics, helping with beats and melodies, including Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and songwriter Ilsey Juber....
...In a country that once derived great amusement from watching older men harassing younger women, courtesy of the Carry On films or the Benny Hill television shows, there is a sense of a reckoning to come....
...And the wider sector’s woes were recently brought into sharp focus by serial profit warnings from its peers and the departure of Capita chief executive Andy Parker....
...Free jazz pioneer Evan Parker and MOBO winners Sons of Kemet head up a strong jazz cast, the hi-octane Dennis Rollins Velocity Trio launch a new album and Ian Shaw and Guy Barker celebrate music of the movies...
...Kerouac wrote it at the age of 22, in the turbulent year of 1944, during which he was jailed as an accessory to murder, married his first wife Edie Parker to secure bail, and was then released....
...The 15-CD Complete Masters 1933-59 progress from the fresh-voiced “Your Mother’s Son-In-Law” with Benny Goodman to the slightly croaky “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home”, recorded with the strait-laced Ray...
...Bates’s celebration of Charlie Parker, Beloved Bird, a stand-out last year, was presented on Sunday afternoon....
...Fans rallied round and New York turned up trumps when leading bass player William Parker shipped out his practice instrument....
...In the process they “discovered” Count Basie and Billie Holiday, recorded Bessie Smith and persuaded Benny Goodman to drop schmaltz. The jousting continued through the 1950s....
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