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...In one song, she’s Betty Carter. In another, Sarah Vaughan. Old New York. But this singer is not old at all. She is decisively Of This Moment....
...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....
...In the evocation of passion in Betty – played by Billie Piper when young, Sue Johnston when middle-aged, both magnificently – the drama asks: does this superheated passion conquer all commitments made in...
...She won Wimbledon in 1977, the tournament’s centenary year, beating the Dutch player Betty Stöve 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 I was obsessed with ball sports from an early age....
...With her towering beehive hair, theatrical make-up, multiple tattoos and stick-thin frame, Winehouse cut an extraordinary figure, like Betty Boop in a biker gang....
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