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...At last the missing link between Kylie Minogue and Édith Piaf is found. It takes the form of Kylie’s earworm “Padam Padam”, which was inspired by Piaf’s 1951 song “Padam, padam . . . ”....
...“But I think Paul R Williams designed for people. He put his ego to one side, he listened.”...
...He is buried with his wife, Edith; beneath her name is inscribed the name “Lúthien”, the loveliest of elf-maidens in The Silmarillion, and below his the name “Beren”, her mortal lover....
...“We looked at offshoring parts of our R&D and programming activities several times,” he said. “We always came to the same conclusion: it just makes more sense to keep it here in Germany.”...
...Biopics about musicians have proved big business ever since Ray (about R&B pioneer Ray Charles) won Academy Awards in 2005....
...A former percussionist with Prince, Sheila E, gave “Marmalade” a highly arranged R&B twist in 1991....
...In the Night of Time, by Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated by Edith Grossman, Tuskar Rock Press, RRP£16.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$30 A successful architect is caught up in the twin upheavals of the...
...The rolled r’s trip off the tongue like everyday French. The melodies lie somewhere between the boulevard, the variety show and the smoky allure of cabaret....
...Rachel York, as Dorothy, is sensational, and the three male suitors, portrayed by Clarke Thorell, Aaron Lazar and Stephen R. Buntrock, are aptly cast. www.nycitycenter.org...
...In 1953 they formed Spark Records, which signed The Robins, a group that combined R&B and doo-wop to pleasing effect and who were the forerunners of The Coasters....
...There remains enough undeveloped land to create as many as 70 new lots should landowners decide to subdivide, says Christian R Sonne, an agent with Tuxedo Park Associates....
...Introspection is the stock-in-trade of Madeleine Peyroux, who headlines the following night – her previous albums covered Leonard Cohen and Edith Piaf....
...Joan Baez, Edith Piaf and Bob Dylan apparently all started out as buskers. Did they make any money?...
...“Redecorating the White House is ultimately a political endeavour so hanging new drapes isn’t high on the Obamas’ list of priorities right now,” says R Louis Bofferding, a design historian and furniture...
...A Quiet Belief in Angels By R.J. Ellory Orion £14.99, 7 hours 50 minutes Both a thriller and a bildungsroman, R.J....
...Tachi Yamada, the former head of R&D at GSK, concurs: “ ‘JP’ was an outstanding chief executive....
...So says Edith Mayo, curator emeritus at the National Museum of American History and designer of the current Smithsonian First Ladies exhibition, which aims to place these women in the context of their husbands...
...In the 1960s, private papers were released for the benefit of R.W.B. Lewis’s authorised biography....
...“It’s a marvellous book,” Auchincloss says in a patrician accent of broad “a”s and reedy “r”s that in its natural, inherited form has all but disappeared from America, “but not everyone thinks so.”...
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