Hints and tips:
...The Rick James-sampling “Super Freaky Girl” introduces us to a flimsy new alter ego, Nick James, a pun in search of a punchline....
...You can’t just buy a topper and say ‘now I sleep on a Hästens’,” says James Aschberger, Hästens’ chief marketing officer....
...Down the street at Cad & The Dandy, co-founder James Sleater notes that “demand for formalwear normally spikes when times are tough — that’s when people want to feel good”....
...In the era of hyper-localisation, that’s the message being proffered by Floks, a Yorkshire-based woollen bedding brand offering duvets, pillows and mattress toppers filled with the fleeces of sheep that...
...She took up songwriting for others, co-writing James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful”, one of the bestselling records of the 2000s....
...Joachim Brudzinski, an MEP and close ally of Mr Kaczynski — who holds no formal office but is widely seen as Poland’s most powerful politician — described the radio’s removal of references to Kazik’s chart topper...
...Despite a cavalier approach to notions of the shrinking modern attention span — their LPs clock in at well over an hour’s length — they are chart toppers....
...James Max is a property expert and radio presenter. The views expressed are personal. Twitter: @thejamesmax. If you have a problem for James, contact him at richpeoplesproblems@ft.com...
...That was when ex-bassist James Farndon drowned in a bath after taking heroin....
...The song was only pipped as a UK No 1 by John Lennon’s posthumous chart-topper “Woman”....
...Never mind that adapting the “monster”, as Henry James lovingly called War and Peace, is an invitation to hubris; every generation must have a go and sometimes it costs them dearly....
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney is the FT’s pop music critic Illustration by James Fryer Photographs: Getty Images; WireImage...
...Men in toppers, women in white dresses, discuss art, argue about the likelihood and nature of war – catastrophe or social cleanser?...
...That was its old product: Crosby, then Sinatra, Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Motown, James Brown, Madonna and Michael himself....
...This is capped by a bird’s nest, in which Rapunzel is installed, and another topper, from which an ingenious giant’s head (voiced by Glenn Close) peers out....
...The hats are being made in Lock’s south London factory; a recently retired employee had to be consulted on how to work the plush as no one in the factory had made a silk topper before....
...The austere Georgian building was as grey as an Ascot topper. It’s a fine old house. How many rooms, I asked? “Twenty-one, twenty-two,” Donleavy said, uncertainly....
...Baby James, Bowie’s Man Who Sold The World, Nick Drake’s Bryter Later, Syd Barrett’s The Madcap Laughs and Tim Buckley’s Starsailor....
...Chart toppers: How to get to number one in the digital age Exploit MySpace This is the modern version of what Stock Aitken and Waterman did. “We had to go and make pop stars,” Waterman says....
...David Topper, co-head of equity capital markets at JPMorgan, said companies and their bankers are making it easier for listings to perform well by not pricing deals too aggressively....
...When the recent heatwave hit London, hatters James Lock found they were selling panamas faster than cold beers....
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