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...And here’s what else I’ll be watching on a busy day: US-Iraq relations: Middle East tensions will be very much on the agenda today as President Joe Biden hosts Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani...
...The US can claim a partial success in the direct struggle against al-Qaeda....
...[MUSIC PLAYING]...
...Because reporting on international crime groups in the same way we’d report on a blue-chip corporation, well it’s hard. Crime bosses they don’t usually have PR teams you can ring up....
...And, you know, the days when it was accepted that these would be shielded behind shell corporations are potentially numbered because of the political context....
...“After the fall of Saddam, people hoped there would be a flourishing of civil life — art, music, theatre,” he said....
...At Crown he inherited a book by Russell Simmons, founder of the music label Def Jam....
...Her talk of service rather than stardom applies not just to the music industry but to music itself....
...The heath was the subject of some of the rowdiest music-hall songs, including Down at the Old Bull and Bush....
...In contrast, when Khaldoon al-Mubarak, one of the most trusted lieutenants of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the UAE’s de facto leader, contacted Honeywell to supply much-needed personal protective...
...In 1983, 90 per cent of US media was controlled by 50 corporations; by 2000, that number had shrunk to six....
...The Sound of the Hound (EMI Archive Trust) An illuminating new series on the history of recorded music in which the writer James Hall and music industry executive Dave Holley tell the stories of the pioneers...
...[MUSIC PLAYING] ANJLI RAVAL: This month, Riyadh will make a final decision on whether to sign off on the long-awaited initial public offering of its state energy giant Saudi Aramco....
...Recommended reading Jane Mayer rightfully revisits whether Al Franken’s downfall came too speedily, in The New Yorker....
...Mr Yoshida said the acquisition of EMI would bolster Sony’s music offerings at a time of resurgence for the music business....
...The UAE’s deputy prime minister, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, bought Manchester City football club in 2008....
...After Mr Hands’ unfortunate experiences with Four Seasons old people’s homes, Wyevale Garden Centres and music business EMI — where the euphemistic “fruit and flowers” cost £200,000 a year — he could be...
...Corporations and western governments . . . find pliant dictators much easier to work with than messy democracies.”...
...But as long as the music plays, people will keep dancing....
...Guests included Michael Brecker on tenor sax and Al Di Meola on electric guitar....
...He also allegedly used 1MDB money to pay for Jynwel’s $106.6m stake in EMI Music Publishing as part of a Sony-led consortium....
...In 2003, Radiohead was released from their six-album record contract with EMI, allowing them to release their next two albums, In Rainbows (2007) and King of Limbs (2011), through _Xurbia_Xendless Ltd and...
...Past glories are faintly glimpsed in the close harmony melodies woven into the saccharine music....
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...Mr Hands sued Citi in 2009, alleging the US lender had misled his firm into overpaying for the British music company on the eve of the credit crisis....
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