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...“Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails, a song spawned from self-loathing and addiction, is haunting, but in Johnny Cash’s version, his advanced years and ill health really hit you in the feels....
...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...
...He and Ellis were accompanied by a trio of singers, T Jae Cole, Wendi Rose and Janet Ramus, and a multi-instrumentalist, Johnny Hostile, who variously played keyboards, bass and drums....
...In 1973, Dalí invited Cooper to the King Cole Bar at the St Regis in New York, having seen one of his stadium shows....
...Every kitchen has to have a sweet spot,” says Johnny Grey. “And this is it.” The sweet spot in question belongs to a kitchen in Richmond....
...When Johnny Rotten snarled “No future . . . no future for you” at the close of “God Save the Queen” he can hardly have imagined its resonance for a burning planet more than four decades later....
...But the popularity of the song in the US was accelerated when, that same year, Jo Stafford recorded Johnny Mercer’s new English lyric, “Autumn Leaves”....
...Cole explains....
...“Was one of the musicals Cole Porter wrote DuBarry Was a Lady?” I enquired lightly, as if I didn’t know. He said it was....
...For those undeterred by the complications and still dreaming of owning their desert island, the easiest solution is to be like Johnny Depp, who has left his Exumas island in the Bahamas untouched but for...
...The novelist Teju Cole visits Cape Town and I am asked to lead a “literary walkabout” of the city in his company for the Open Book Festival....
...a gallery in London’s Golden Square, close to Sadie Coles’ new space)....
...Subtlety was never the strong suit of director Nigel Cole (Saving Grace, Calendar Girls)....
...Think of the gothic love-child of Cole Porter and Lenny Bruce, I tell a friend who has never heard of Tim Minchin and who evidently spends his days with his head in a sack....
...It’s been a shock this fortnight to see John Terry, Ashley Cole and Wayne Rooney in England shirts, and remember that they have another life as footballers....
...Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell float through in Ledger’s likeness – luxury casting – and bring some of the magic missing whenever human stardust is not around....
...This is not a sensationalist book – Johnny Depp doesn’t even get a look-in. Though not a difficult read, it will appeal only to the most interested of amateurs....
...The Little Giant: The Story of Johnny Griffin By Mike Hennessey Northway Publications £19.99, 246 pages The great American saxophonist Johnny Griffin recently celebrated his 80th birthday by fronting a...
...Many musicians passed through the Invaders: Justin Adams and Natacha Atlas, both now leading lights of world music in Britain; BJ Cole on pedal steel, Annie Whitehead on trombone....
...This is Johnny Rhythm saying goodnight to yuz all.” “Isn’t that lovely?” says Martin, smiling with an almost parental affection....
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