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...Billie Milam Weisman could be seen as the keeper of the flame....
...Another Berlin-based start-up, Billie, raised $100mn in October with Dawn Capital, Chinese technology group Tencent and Klarna investing....
...Next week she begins another North American tour, followed by support slots for Billie Eilish at London’s O2 Arena and Harry Styles at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium this summer....
...In the depths of Covid, when human contact seemed so far beyond reach, I serenaded my unsuspecting neighbour with “Jingle Bells” on the sax, as the snow fell....
...Her style and influence are detectable in artists from Björk to Billie Eilish to FKA Twigs. A prolific songwriter, poet and diarist, she also designed the band’s costumes and record-sleeve artwork....
...A bicycle, complete with basket and little bell, leans against the far wall....
...Earlier this year she became the first social media influencer to ring the Nasdaq bell....
...Carleen Anderson took “I Ain’t Got No Home”, replacing Guthrie’s understated dry wit with gospel melisma closer to Billie Holiday....
...“Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell” came next, with vocalist John Winfield delivering the William Blake words with a gruffed-up blues-rock shout....
...More timely was Battle of the Sexes, starring Emma Stone as Billie Jean King and Steve Carell as Bobby Riggs, who challenged King to a tennis match in 1973 that would “prove” men’s superiority at the game...
...“You’re the Pepsi generation,” sang Michael Jackson to the tune of “Billie Jean”, as a child clutching a can of the cola drink expressed astonishment to find he had moonwalked into the pop icon....
...The lyrics scoffed at hippies and, to put the tin lid on it, the title, “Living in the Past”, rejected the Swinging London, bell-bottom-wearing era. Hit single? That’ll show ’em....
...Not so in Billie Holiday’s case....
...The new HK$400m (£32m) gallery, designed by New York architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, occupies a former British army munitions store in the green hills between the British consulate, swanky Pacific...
...“Body and Soul”, a jazzy ballad on which she accompanies Bennett’s warm tones with a statuesque slur, giving lines such as “My life, a wreck” the wayward flourish of a modern Billie Holiday, now carries...
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