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...At the bottom of a street lined with oleanders, the huge stone house where Baldwin hosted Nina Simone, Ray Charles and Maya Angelou had been redeveloped into a luxury apartment complex....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...“All of our heroes were black, from Ray Charles to Lightnin’ Hopkins, any way you want to go. Stevie Wonder was one of them . . . When I was 19 I tried to emigrate to Houston, Texas....
...“He was the superstar,” said Mr Lee Jr, “and he went out at the top of his game.”...
...Lawrence Summers, Charles W Eliot University Professor of Harvard University How are you spending the summer?...
...Almost six hours after I walk through the door of his music studio in Hollywood he is still going strong, stream-of-consciousness style, riffing about gamma rays, light spectrum ranges and how a sound recording...
...Much of the value in Goodman’s account lies in interviews with the likes of Ahmet Ertegun, the late industry legend who steered artists from Ray Charles to Led Zeppelin, and the book is full of anecdotes...
...Charles de Gaulle 21. Queen Victoria 22. Joschka Fischer, German Green party politician 23. Hillary Clinton 24. Golda Meir, Israeli PM, 1969-74 25. Martin Luther King Jr.26....
...Charles and, for one memorably surreal duet, Andy Williams....
...And among black singers of any type, only Ray Charles, the subject of a tribute section here, was as versatile. More so, perhaps: he could do country. (That’s not a programme hint, guys.)...
...Charles Schumer, a senator from New York and fellow Democrat, told the Post that Spitzer still had things to learn....
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