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...To put the figure in context, UMG is likely to have made more from free-tier streaming last quarter (€325mn-ish) than from physical media and digital downloads put together....
...Oliver Leith cheerfully maintains that he writes music the wrong way. “My approach is totally magpie-ish. Anything goes....
...… When it comes to influencing our drinks choices, what we see in films and hear in music are important parameters Let’s . . . accept that, and also accept with inhibitions the premise that rap music is...
...Bristol’s Colston Hall was one of the UK’s most important music venues, hosting everyone from The Beatles and David Bowie to Bobs Dylan and Marley to Rachmaninov and Rubinstein....
...Baritone Roland Wood has an infectious, Falstaffian charm as Marx, while Irish soprano Orla Boylan is Lady Bracknell-ish as woeful wife Jenny — and has a voice that could blow Marx’s beard off....
...Now — after what even Taylor haters (perish the thought) would concede was extraordinary, literally unprecedented, success in business, music and film, as well as cultural ubiquity — she’s announced...
...Back to John, who has been suffering the faux-cheery hold music long enough....
...Look at the music world. A pop song is still a four minute-ish event with a recurring hook, as it was in 1960. Look at tech....
...Of course, the British people have enthusiastically signed up for many of the wonderful novelties immigrants have introduced into the country — among them food, music and language....
...Even the country’s politicians, in Vanity Fair’s estimation, were “cool-ish”. And while they didn’t themselves make Britain cool, they did at least understand why it mattered....
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...But it’s so good: a sesame-ish thick stew with hand-pulled dumpling noodles. It warms you up. Koreans take whisky very seriously....
...What’s less well-known is that Martin is also a massive music geek....
...In many ways, relitigating the last four and eight years-ish of kind of American life, it just . . . no wonder people want to tune out and can’t get excited about it....
...John Michie has a Jeremy Irons-ish geniality as George and Deirdre Davis an angsty integrity as Edie....
...They’re all songs of my youth-ish, and they’re all bangers. Lilah Raptopoulos Yeah....
...Our sound engineers for this episode are Sam Giovinco and Simon Panayi, with original music by Metaphor Music. Topher Forhecz is our executive producer and our global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...The new-ish chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is not gonna do anything crazy. He’s not gonna nuke the markets. So, you know, that does make me a tiny bit nervous....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Marc FilippinoKana Inagaki is the FT’s Tokyo bureau chief. [MUSIC PLAYING] You can read more on all of these stories at FT.com for free when you click the links in our show notes....
...Even the protocol around the anthem is severe: Uefa apparently insists that no other music is played after it. Fans have been known to drown it out with boos....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Lilah RaptopoulosYeah....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Michela Tindera Mm-hmm....
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