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...Mr Tedder, alongside Max Martin and Jason “Poo Bear” Boyd, is one of a number of professional hitmakers behind some of the most successful songs in the streaming age....
...But it doesn’t matter if you were The Rolling Stones or Paul McCartney or Nile Rodgers, you get it wrong as much as you get it right. That’s not investable,” he says....
...Norman is a noted biographer of figures who belong to rock music’s “tiny topmost echelon”: Buddy Holly, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, John Lennon....
...Maya Boyd, her co-author, sees it as a fusion: “The style is part north Africa exoticism and part Balinese bohemia, with a chic undercurrent that’s unmistakably European.”...
...figures of the 20th century, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Sir Winston Churchill, science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke (a mere RAF technician when their paths crossed), Roald Dahl and Paul McCartney...
...Here is that now-famous roll-call: Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, and more....
...Plats du Jour by Patience Gray (a woman whom Mrs David detested even more than she detested Peter Mayle) and Primrose Boyd is of 1957....
...Lennon (“Happy Xmas (War is Over)”) and McCartney (“Mull of Kintyre”) turned to their respective brands of slush....
...is a GP in Glasgow margaret.mccartney@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/mccartney...
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