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...The tone of the evening established, the guitarist gleefully set about his stated task with a gently strummed intro to Jimmy Webb’s “Wichita Lineman”, although at this gig, playing the tune like nobody else...
...“Baltimore” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia” were un-spliced, though musically they twisted this way and that, and Jimmy Webb’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” was developed through a series...
...James “Jimmy” Cayne, the executive who presided over the New York investment bank Bear Stearns in the run-up to its collapse in the 2008 financial crisis, has also died. 2....
...David Webb, an investor rights activist and government critic, argues that the government’s assurance about its intent matters little at a time when the Basic Law “is in tatters really”....
...Jimmy Webb always felt like he was waking up from the American dream.”...
...“With the robots you can swab on the fly,” said Jimmy Graham, Encirc’s forming development manager. “We’ve taken that element of risk out of it.”...
...Webb and Neil Diamond, a whole lot of Love’s Forever Changes, but all in service of Rhys’s terrific ear for a melody....
...Written for the singer by his most productive collaborator, the songwriter Jimmy Webb, it tells the story of a repairman dangling from a telephone pole in Kansas testing the line....
...Jimmy Webb's mournful ballad became one of the most-covered songs of the 20th century. Sue Norris explores its appeal for artists from Nick Cave to Isaac Hayes....
...Frank Sinatra called composer Jimmy Webb’s subtle, mournful ballad “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” the “greatest torch song ever written”....
...Jimmy Webb, David Crosby and Vince Gill sang it faithfully at a 2001 All Star Tribute to Brian Wilson in New York. But that’s about it....
...Portfolio construction is a main concern of plan sponsors, says Jimmy Veneruso, vice-president of fund sponsor consulting at Callan....
...Steve Brown, the producer on my first record, and great songwriters like PF Sloan, Jimmy Webb and Stephen Bishop. How physically fit are you? I don’t know!...
...More than 30 protesters, including several student leaders as well as Jimmy Lai, an anti-Beijing media owner, face possible prosecution....
...Mr Leung faces accusations that his administration is politically persecuting Jimmy Lai, a media tycoon who owns the anti-Beijing Apple Daily newspaper, for making donations to lawmakers that were not disclosed...
...It’s an impeccably tasteful exercise, which pays tribute to the 1970s tradition of clever songcraft (Todd Rundgren’s “Be Nice to Me”, Jimmy Webb’s “PF Sloan”), but is constrained by an urge to soothe: her...
...be to do with their ages – all are of a generation that was inspired by the possibilities of 1980s alternative comedy but started out at a time when the idea of comedians touring huge arenas – or, like Jimmy...
...In Peep Show, David Mitchell and Robert Webb bumble about seeking sex, love and approval....
...I could squeeze in a bit on Jimmy Maxton or Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Now, about the advance publicity. We will need some pizzaz. Would you do a fireside commercial, like Lord Mandelson?...
...If the music’s bluegrass hues and Jimmy Webb riffs, showcased in sweet guitar-and-fiddle-dominated arrangements, emit a certain sameness, it’s a sameness that’s awfully companionable and that puts a person...
...Mr Stourton found out his job was going to Justin Webb, the BBC’s North America editor, in a phone call from a colleague before the BBC confirmed the change, due next October....
...Following her initial shock and despair, his mother Mary (Denise Black, left, with Steven Webb as Joe) feels driven to meet the girl who did it....
...After founder Jimmy Lai sold his 27 per cent stake in the company in 1996, no single investor has stepped up to claim a controlling share....
...Likewise, the Democratic party fielded many pro-gun candidates in the 2006 Senate races, including Jim Webb in Virginia, who was a Reaganite in his younger days....
...Both groups are hoping his Republican background – he became a Republican in 1977 after President Jimmy Carter pardoned people who avoided the Vietnam war draft, and in 2000 he voted for Mr Allen and Mr...
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