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...Always a commanding presence, his seven-minute reading of the ballad “What’s New”, the much-covered songbook standard written by written by Bob Haggart and Johnny Burke, delivers romance without sentiment...
...“Clem [Burke, Blondie’s drummer] says it’s like jazz now,” Stein notes. “It’s a niche market.”...
...Events in New York this week reminded me of an old saying of Solomon Burke, the late great soul singer. “Sometimes you get what you want,” he said, “and you lose what you had.”...
...“We are purposefully making this change when Jay is #1, just as Jay replaced Johnny Carson when he was #1,” said Steve Burke, chief executive of NBCUniversal....
...“It’s Edmund Burke’s Speech to the Electors of Bristol,” Sutherland says. (Brownback is no Edmund Burke, but they both reserved the right for a politician to govern with judgment not servitude.)...
...Every rising vocal star passed through Meek’s studio, from John Leyton, who topped the charts with “Johnny Remember Me” before escaping to Hollywood, to Tom Jones and Gene Vincent....
...Down the hall might be actors George Raft and Johnny “Tarzan” Weissmuller, as well as top mafiosi Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky....
...‘Black Watch’, by Gregory Burke, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday 10 June...
...Johnny B Michael Holman: I would be surprised if South Africa’s stance changed as a result of the poll....
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