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...But the two-hour set had a strong concluding section with a solo version of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”, played alone by Madonna on acoustic guitar — an enjoyable piece of mythmaking — followed by Sasha...
...The Gloria tour does the same, but more effectively. Tabloid outrage is a mark of its success. ★★★★☆ samsmithworld.com...
...Their fourth album, Gloria, is pitched as Smith unbound, the work of a singer throwing musical caution to the wind....
...Murky red lighting, a thumping snare beat and scything synthesiser riffs accompanied Cocker’s tale of grimy libidinous desire, a sardonic reworking of Gloria Gaynor’s break-up anthem “I Will Survive”....
...Additional reporting by Gloria Liu in Hong Kong...
...Individuality also extends to Cadwallader’s casting and, latterly, the films that he’s used to unveil his collections – using models with genders across the binary, including actors Hunter Schafer (Euphoria...
...The Edge seemed to play with a renewed sense of freedom, reeling off expressive solos during “Gloria” and “Acrobat”, the latter a rarely performed number from Achtung Baby....
...Sic transit gloria mundi. The two artists shared more than a generalised nostalgia or a depressive outlook....
...Warehouse DJ Ian Dewhirst had been a legendary rare vinyl hunter on the northern soul circuit, and put the Jones single on the turntable....
...He clothed the most beautiful women of an elegant time: Gloria Guinness, Babe Paley, Daisy Fellowes and Mona von Bismarck among them....
...Their lives were transformed in 1981 by their third single, an irresistible synthpop cover of a Northern soul song, originally by Bolan’s girlfriend Gloria Jones....
...Gloria Ann Taylor Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing (Ubiquity) “It’s a mean world!”...
...Joined by a band including two members of the original Patti Smith Group — guitarist Lenny Kaye and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty — she gave “Gloria” the full foot-on-monitor treatment, her voice an undimmed...
...Later they field mobile calls with a furtiveness implying an empathetic head hunter is in touch. Usually it’s only Mum reminding them to wear a vest....
...For a substantial upgrade, we have to turn to the composer’s platinum-selling 1973 album Head Hunters. The new “Watermelon Man” is a far cry from the original....
...These hunter-gatherers had no contact with westerners until a medical expedition arrived in 2009; then 34 of the 54 villagers agreed to give faecal, skin and oral samples for microbiological analysis, now...
...driving upwards for the line about “reaching a fever pitch” in Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep”, going low to convey “a feeling deep in yourself” in Barbra Streisand’s “People” and breaking into scat singing on Gloria...
...“You are the sentimental one”, says Ros Hunter, in a tone friendlier than it appears in print....
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney FT pop critic …………………………………………………………….. FILM Do the Movies Have a Future?...
...Perhaps at times it was too subtle – my own companion, three-year-old Gloria, fell into a deep slumber halfway through – an occupational hazard of toddler concert-going, but better that than the mind-numbing...
...Andrew Clark is the FT’s chief music criticLudovic Hunter-Tilney is the FT’s pop critic ………………………………………………………....
...We remember them for “Tainted Love”, their darkly subversive cover of a northern soul number originally sung by Marc Bolan’s wife Gloria Jones, but that only hinted at Almond’s proclivities....
...I corner Dangicourt, a bubbly head-hunter sporting a chic black frock, in the busy bar downstairs....
...He refuses to be inspected and criticised by the inquisitive sensation hunters of other nations....
...“Ana Patricia’s surname has been both an advantage and a handicap,” says Gloria Alonso, chief financial officer at Acciona, a Spanish construction group....
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