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...It pulses to a soundtrack of Bowie, The Kinks and The Rolling Stones....
...Whether it was Elton John, Spike Lee, Pelé or Amy Winehouse, the subject was both elevated and, at the same time, rendered candidly human....
...“The Ivy League look radiates timeless style,” says Paul Simons, co-owner of the Ivy League outfitter John Simons on London’s Chiltern Street....
...When he first heard the music, Brian Eno grabbed a copy of the single and ran to find David Bowie. “I’ve found the sound of the future,” he breathlessly announced....
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...Meanwhile, Fripp played sharply animated solos and, a lump-in-throat moment, reprised his celebrated guitar part in David Bowie’s “Heroes”....
...An object I would never part with is a white Supro Dual Tone guitar, signed by David Bowie, which I treasure. I would never get rid of that. I don’t play it live....
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..., Bob Dylan, Elton John and Queen and directed by Luke Sheppard....
...He seems to often play roles based on real people (as well as Burton, he’s been Einstein and David Bowie) and I ask how the preparation works....
...In April, he will also perform in a group gig marking the 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane album at London’s South Bank Centre....
...Long leather coats evoked David Bowie in Berlin circa 1976....
...He became obsessed with John Coltrane, whose group he saw roughly 50 times, and he discovered African and Indonesian music....
...Aesthetically and intellectually it fits into a no-nonsense box with St John, Labour and Wait, Ercol, Jasper Morrison et al....
...But this was also a youth exposed to the 1960s: as musical influences like the Beatles and other western bands filled Japan’s airwaves, his mother would take him to the concerts of trailblazers such as John...
...I had dropped into the Leeds City Museum on Cookridge Street, where the main gallery reverberated to the sound of “The Jean Genie” by David Bowie, this in commemoration of a gig Bowie played 50 years ago...
...Goldman president John Waldron told the FT: “If we are to grow from $2tn-plus to $3tn to $4tn, it will require the platform to be more durable and more automated....
...Who can forget the lavish scenes from Stephen Schwarzman’s birthday just as the financial crisis was setting in, or the three nights of Venetian festivities for John Studzinski’s celebration in 2016....
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