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...The novel even features, as a postscript, its own playlist of key tracks featured in the text: Nick Cave to The Beatles; David Bowie to Amy Winehouse....
...The S&P 500 and the Euro Stoxx 600 indices are up about a quarter since the start of October....
...The venue is Kenwood House Gardens, Hampstead Heath. You can buy tickets here....
...The venue is Kenwood House Gardens, Hampstead Heath. You can buy tickets here...
...P Soleil d’Or gives bright yellow berries on red stems, and P rogersiana Flava has glossy yellow fruits....
...Moonage Daydream, director Brett Morgen’s documentary account of the singer and polymath David Bowie, is a “grand, kaleidoscopic scramble of freaky, un-narrated fragments,” writes our film critic Danny Leigh...
...Futures contracts tracking the blue-chip S&P 500 rose 0.5 per cent today, while the equivalent for the tech-heavy Nasdaq jumped 1 per cent....
...The acquisition spans the publishing rights to Bowie’s 26 studio albums over his six-decade career. 4....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Michigan’s health department confirmed its first case of the P.1 variant of Covid-19....
...Job moves Ex-Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Heath Tarbert has joined Citadel Securities as its chief legal officer just 27 days after leaving the US regulator....
..., Devon; JR Jefferies, Dudley Polymath 1,028: John Clune, Ireland Crossword 16,200: Edward Cooper, Norwich R Winter, Worthing; Kate Lloyd-Williams, Somerset Polymath 1,027: Christina Dyall, Chadwell Heath...
...The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers That Are Holding Women Back at Work, by Michelle P King In her first book, which started as a podcast, King offers a road map for identifying invisible yet persistent...
...As well as campaigning in her own safe constituency, she has made regular “Theresa trips” to support candidates such as Alok Sharma in Reading West, Andrew Bowie in West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine and...
...And then there was the Moon landing itself; soon afterwards, David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” (see Life of a Song) — featuring the Stylophone, a kind of crude mini-synthesiser — hit the charts....
...One might as well rage against a storm on a blasted heath as decry Goldman and the merger arbs....
...The last time the S&P started a year this strongly was in 1987. We tried to set out the reasons for this rally here....
...Andrew Heath, Imagination’s chief executive, called the proposed deal a “very good outcome” for shareholders....
...He thinks it ended with them producing the Absolute Beginners soundtrack, because after working with David Bowie, everything else seemed a bit anticlimactic....
...El-P and Killer Mike of Run the Jewels offered a different type of masterclass in technique when they played the Pyramid Stage following Corbyn’s speech, each rapper complementing the other with a belligerent...
...(Not everyone has a 30-inch waist like David Bowie, whose measurements were recorded in one of the traditional leather-bound tailors’ books.)...
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 up 1.8 per cent while Japan’s Topix index was down 0.2 per cent....
...The strangled vowels of Ted Heath, who was prime minister during much of Bowie’s heyday, now sound like they are coming from a distant era....
...Why Mandalay was built in 1989 for David Bowie, who described it as “a whim personified”....
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