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...Following the death of her husband who was “blasted in half at the battle of Blenheim”, Nell Jackson (Derry Girls’ Louisa Harland) has a new companion in the form of Nick Mohammed’s Billy Blind, a Tinkerbell-meets-Jiminy-Cricket...
...He has produced films including Unthinkable starring Samuel L Jackson and The Baytown Outlaws starring Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria....
...Previous acts and artists include The 1975, Katy Perry, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Janet Jackson....
...As it happens, the production company was able to find a talented young mixed-race actor called Billy Ashcroft, so my feelings were redundant either way....
...More recently, Rick Riordan, author of the fabulous Percy Jackson mythologies, wrote: “It would be a mistake to ‘write down’ to kids. They hate that....
...After several false starts, Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back, is out....
..., Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel became superstars....
...As the sun began to go down, the alpenglow setting alight the spectacular Cirque of the Towers, Jess cast her line into the calm waters of Billy’s Lake, beside our first camp....
...Whatever the various frissons between the band members, the playing here is superb, telepathically tight and, enhanced by the keyboard skills of Billy Preston, genuinely soulful....
...Separately, talks between Liverpool FC’s ownership and a blank-cheque company led by US baseball executive Billy Beane have fallen apart....
...“Hurts to Be Alone” is one of several tracks that echo classic songs: in this case, it brings to mind Joe Jackson’s “Steppin’ Out” (the others are “Heartbroken, Day After”, which opens like David Bowie’s...
...(or anything else) is accurate, the agency’s Democratic commissioner Robert Jackson has said....
...In the roadside bars of New Billy, a sprawling slum in Malabo, people drink Castel beer and steer clear of politics....
...As the network’s head of news Corey Ellison (Billy Crudup) explains through his scheming rictus grin: “We need entertainment, not journalism.”...
...Additional reporting by Duncan Robinson Data project concept by John Burn-Murdoch ; Additional data reporting by Gavin Jackson...
...Billy Porter, fresh from his sartorial Oscars triumph, plays Pray Tell, the flamboyant MC whose verbal flourishes effusively welcome and speedily dispatch the contenders for the nightly prize....
...I wonder how Billy Hayes’s experience in a Turkish prison in the film Midnight Express might have been different had he had four bars and access to a 3G network....
...Bridport will welcome an eclectic mix of writers — from Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, to biographer Claire Tomalin via veteran war correspondent Kate Adie and singer-songwriter Billy...
...This is the music of Billy Bragg and the films of Ken Loach. There is always a hectoringly didactic play about the miners’ strike doing the rounds....
...“Red neck” was certainly of slave coinage, as shown in the song quoted by Isenberg: “I’d druther be a Nigger, an’ plow ole Beck, Dan a white Hill Billy wid his long red neck.”...
...Lou Donaldson and Willis Jackson both covered it, losing out to King Curtis, who scored a top 30 US hit with a wailing cover, just months after the original was issued....
...He was never dogmatic, he never told me to stop listening to Michael Jackson or Prince, just ‘listen to where it came from’.”...
...This idea has attracted left-wing supporters from south of the border: Billy Bragg, John Harris, George Monbiot, Tariq Ali and other writers often found in the Guardian....
...All of this comes together in the power, precision and intricacies of the Billy Cobham band....
...John Burn-Murdoch and Gavin Jackson...
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