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...Their first song was “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, a hit for Gladys Knight and the Pips in 1967....
...reached his twenties he had shot the Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight – gigs that he used to fund his art school education....
...Wonder and Simone are joined by performers including BB King, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Hugh Masekela and Sly and the Family Stone. None is on less than jaw-dropping form....
...Gladys Berejiklian, the politician who has run the Australian state of New South Wales for most of the past five years, abruptly resigned after an anti-corruption agency said it was investigating her....
...Bethan Roberts grew up in a house filled with Elvis’s music and pored over her mother’s Elvis annuals and scrapbooks as a child....
...It was this version that Gladys Knight was to hear soon afterwards....
...Credits: X5 Music Group, Jim Weatherly, Carinco AG, Capitol Records LLC....
...Then: “Gladys Knight. I had the chance once, and I couldn’t do it. I banged my head against the wall for two weeks after.”...
...Eventually “Grapevine” was released by Gladys Knight and the Pips in 1967 in a new, more up-tempo arrangement. It was a hit, reaching number two in the charts....
...I realised not everyone was in the music business for the same reasons as me. My rosy reasons are just to make music and feel good....
...She listened to Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Hugh Masekela, Sibongile Khumalo, and was a great fan of Miriam Makeba. She was a domestic worker, the only person in our family who worked....
...Gladys Balsillie, who died in 1987, began her career as a pilot before opening a popular restaurant and music venue, the Swinging Gate....
...I ask whether she finds that London’s music scene is more racially mixed than in the US. “Things are a little more separated there, as far as music is concerned,” she adds....
...In fact, all he has done is to infuse his music – with the collaboration of Philippe Cohen Solal of Gotan Project – with some tropes from 1970s club dance music....
...Morris, who is 74, co-wrote “Sweet Talkin’ Guy” for the Chiffons in 1966, and has run all the remaining “big three” music companies: Warner Music, Universal Music and now Sony Music....
...The Beatles’ “Blackbird” becomes a gentle country hoedown, Randy Newman’s “Feels Like Home” swaps Newman’s crumbly New Orleans vocal for Diamond’s velvety Brill Building tones, and Gladys Knight and The...
...Gunfire, logistical nightmares and the “two days away from retirement” cliché are all present and correct …as well, of course, as the music. That side of matters is solid, in the best sense....
..., they were handsomely orchestrated but soporific covers of other people’s songs, such as Gladys Knight and The Pips’ “Midnight Train to Georgia”....
...That finally happened, big time, in 1940 when she landed the part of Gladys Bumps, the burlesque dancer, in the Broadway hit Pal Joey, based on John O’Hara’s novel and with music by Rodgers and Hart....
...As games is my business, I also take a Sony PSP and Nintendo DS and, for music/movies, I have a video iPod 40 GB. For telephone calls, I use my BlackBerry Curve.”...
...From his mother, Gladys, came musical talent....
...‘Words & Music’, Paul Morley’s history of popular music, is published by Bloomsbury...
...It includes a high-resolution camera and a music player, allowing him to leave his MP3 at home....
...This website uses music you like to predict other music you might also like, playing its selections on an individually tailored “radio” station....
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