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...Discovering his mother’s album collection was also enlightening: “She had the old rock ’n’ roll stuff: Elvis and Chuck Berry… some doo-wop stuff, which I would play endlessly....
...It is a quip that reveals the singer, songwriter and pianist’s acutely tuned ear for the less ordinary....
...Among the other musicians was keyboardist Chuck Leavell, formerly of The Allmann Brothers Band, who acts as musical director....
...The Freudian father of the first track is replaced by her real father Rob Grant on the closing track, “Sweet Carolina”, which he has co-written with her sister Chuck Grant....
...The Lyrics: 1956 to the Presentby Paul McCartney, edited by Paul Muldoon, Allen Lane £75/Liveright $100 The Beatles used to chuck lyric sheets in the wastebasket after recording a song: Linda McCartney...
...The credit market hits a new beat Perhaps the most iconic quote of the financial crisis came from Chuck Prince, the then-chief executive of Citigroup....
...In it, he positions himself in a tradition of songwriters and performers, from Chuck Berry to Irving Berlin, who use the American vernacular to express human emotions. That’s his job....
...Its inspiration is the gold-plated phonograph records placed on board the two Voyager space probes in 1977, which contain an audio summary of life on Earth: Bach, Chuck Berry, greetings in 55 languages,...
...“I understand you got rules here,” the stentorian-voiced singer muttered. Simpson relishes breaking rules....
...When Chuck Berry goaded Ludwig van in “Roll Over Beethoven”, rock and roll was in the ascendancy. The composer could spin in his grave all he wanted: he was yesterday’s man....
...In his defence, Dobney says that “A lot of the most important women in rock were actually singers.” He also maintains that the exhibition is a reflection of a male-dominated genre....
...warped drop-ceiling imperfectly connect to a lightly plastered brick wall, while his sober, mismatched vanity and the dark armoire stand in stark relief to the bright array of neatly stacked Puma, Fila, Chuck...
...He was flanked by an impressive array of supporting musicians, including Darryl Jones on bass and Chuck Leavell on keyboards....
...released the album Day of the Dog, and a handful of British DJs and writers (I was one) seized on it, smitten by the way he blended familiar reference points — The Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman, Chuck...
...Chuck Berry, who has died aged 90, was to some the greatest rock ’n’ roll artist of all time: he was certainly among the most influential....
...With her face painted as a skull, Florence Welch yowls out Holly’s fragmented, modernist lines as if to the ghost of the singer who died in a plane crash, aged 22....
...They rapidly increased as a result of “celebrity adoptions”, including American singer Madonna adopting two children from Malawi....
...Psychic Ills Inner Journey Out (Sacred Bones) “There’s too much monkey business,” Psychic Ills singer Tres Warren sighs on the New York band’s new album, Inner Journey Out....
...We learn from none other than George Sand that in the German travelling version of Hamlet, they chuck in a Queen of the Night character simply because they love her so much....
...Umpteen singers and bands have recorded his “John the Revelator”....
...He’s a curious figure with his skinny little white legs doing the Chuck Berry duckwalk, but he’s a hell of a guitarist, chugging and twiddling and riffing and screaming and hammering....
...Instead, Kirk Douglas snarls and sneers as newsman Chuck Tatum, marooned in Albuquerque after disgraces back in New York. Salvation arrives when a local man is caught in a collapsed desert cave....
...It was first recorded by the American singer Chuck Jackson but his version went unreleased and remained shelved until 1984....
...It is much more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead, Chuck Feeney is fond of saying....
...The British singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot performed a more straightforward cover of the song in 2007, but her breathy, more soulful approach was at odds with the air of sarcasm that gave the original its...
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