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...I loved Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald.” She started making up music off her own bat, aged seven, on a second-hand piano with missing keys, before taking up the cello at school....
...Consider F Scott Fitzgerald, the great poet of ruined glamour and wasted promise....
...Paradise Lost: A Life of F Scott Fitzgerald, by David Brown, Harvard, RRP£23.95/$29.95 The gleam of Fitzgerald’s gilded moment continues to attract writers, film-makers and biographers drawn to his vision...
...As a child she would listen to her father’s collection of Bob Dylan records, which opened up new vistas — blues, Irish music and so on. “Dylan is such an ethnomusicologist,” she enthuses....
...“It was like listening to The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan or something. It just showcased so many talents.”...
...Martin Sorrell is less Freddie Krueger and more Benjamin Button, the F Scott Fitzgerald character who starts life looking like a 70-year-old and gets progressively younger....
...Time out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan, by Ian Bell, Mainstream, RRP£20, 576 pages Forget F Scott Fitzgerald’s dictum about there being no second acts in American lives....
...The latest return to form, in a wretched history of dubious returns to form, is Midnight in Paris, a sentimental piece of tat that features conversations with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, twitchy marital...
...That first bill, in 1954, was compèred by Stan Kenton and included Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie....
...When the going gets tough, says Societe Generale’s Dylan Grice, “the tough find a quiet beach and some good books…hoping the situation will have resolved itself by the time they get home.”...
...“There was one occasion during the early 1950s when he took Oscar watch shopping with one of the other jazz greats whom he looked after, Ella Fitzgerald....
...Others needed to numb over-sensitive souls: Dylan Thomas, Brendan Behan, Scott Fitzgerald, Lowry and Kerouac (again)....
...I like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday – very mellow, eternal and timeless. I also like 1970s west coast rock music such as the Eagles, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead....
...and even Ella Fitzgerald....
...What didn’t Mr Jones know, according to Bob Dylan? 4. Which Jones produced or arranged material for Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Michael Jackson? 5....
...Wild-child socialite - and Paris Hilton sidekick - Lindsay Lohan is set to play Dylan Thomas’s wife Caitlin in The Best Time of Our Lives....
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