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...Guitarist John Scofield, one-time sideman to Miles Davis and with credits as long as your arm, applied his steely jazz eye to a bar-room repertoire and joyously rekindled the passion of his formative years...
...This is the entirely recognisable set-up for John O’Farrell’s new comic novel — but with one twist....
.... ★★★★☆ ‘Uncle John’s Band’ is released by ECM...
...Standout moments therefore favour those actors willing to bend time and draw us in, such as Burrows, Siberry and Dylan Baker as News International’s legal consigliere....
...The buyout group would strike the deal through Hipgnosis Song Management, the company founded by Elton John’s former manager Merck Mercuriadis in which Blackstone owns a majority stake, according to corporate...
...Framed photographs show Dylan and Caitlin in uncharacteristically serene mood strolling through wild countryside....
...Leonard Cohen, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen and Luciano Pavarotti are among the starry subjects, portrayed with an insider’s proximity but also insight....
..., Elton John and BB King....
...john.gapper@ft.com...
...The company hired Google’s top AI executive, John Giannandrea, in 2018....
...And, in what will no doubt go down as a historic gig, Elton John will perform his last ever UK show on the Pyramid Stage on Sunday night....
...Eras could become the first $1bn music tour, surpassing Elton John’s $939mn Farewell Yellow Brick Road shows. It is a phenomenon, but not an accident....
...It was nice to read John Gapper (“Swift is perfect at the three-minute Spotify song”, Opinion, FT Weekend, November 26) giving Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” its due as the perfect three-minute Spotify song....
...At the time, new vérité practices in documentary were giving in-the-moment glimpses of the famous and powerful: John F Kennedy on the campaign trail in Primary (1960), Bob Dylan as folk guru in Dont Look...
...The image of her ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II on US television show Saturday Night Live in 1992 confirmed her hallmark refusal to compromise her beliefs, and endeared her to a nation stifled by...
...“Take a moment — read a little more about John Trudell than what is offered here,” Dylan writes. But there is a pronounced streak of ungenerosity in the book, and even cruelty....
...“Keith Richards, John Lennon, Jim Morrison — they all copied Dylan. And when that happened, he moved on pretty sharpish.”...
...Don’t get me wrong, Mozart’s definitely one of the greats, right up there with Elton John....
..., Elton John and Queen and directed by Luke Sheppard....
...he said, glancing at the ornate interior of the West End theatre — a Beatles gag, referring to John Lennon’s sardonic comment while performing for royalty at the 1963 Royal Variety Show....
...Flynn is now perhaps most widely known as an actor, starring as Dylan in the Netflix dramedy Lovesick, Mr Knightley in a 2020 adaptation of Emma and Richard Burton in The Motive and the Cue, a role he is...
...“A laughless debacle,” said Variety of Polanski’s latest, a black comedy about hotel guests at a New Year’s Eve party, starring John Cleese and Mickey Rourke....
...I mean, come on, John Lee Hooker…” Gore nods slowly. “Yep, John Lee Hooker, Tom Waits, Ian Curtis, John Lydon.” One image that stands out for Corbijn, however, is a portrait of Nelson Mandela....
...Dylan Duffus, who plays the lead role, found himself constantly apprehended by fans calling out the name of his character, Flash....
...He became obsessed with John Coltrane, whose group he saw roughly 50 times, and he discovered African and Indonesian music....
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