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...One image that stands out for Corbijn, however, is a portrait of Nelson Mandela....
...The eclectic mix includes pillar candles by Yinka Ilori, glass fruit pipes by Edie Parker, Japanese shibori kits and statement jewellery crafted by Johnny Nelson....
...We’ve just been doing a bit of local government election reporting down in Dorset and on the way back to London we stopped off at a very nice pub — to give it a plug, The Lord Nelson Pub in Bridport....
...“I travelled a lot with Johnny over the years, and learned from him....
...There’s also Johnny Nelson, a New York-based jeweller who creates necklaces and rings depicting famous figureheads, including a four-finger ring known as the Hip Hop Mount Rushmore – featuring the faces...
...British-born anti-apartheid singer Johnny Clegg, known as South Africa’s “White Zulu” and whose ode to Nelson Mandela “Asimbonanga” became an international call for the end of the segregationist regime,...
...“Underground System” is a roll-call of embattled African leaders from Nelson Mandela to Idi Amin....
...“In my youth when someone was making bold claims we used to say, ‘That’s Johnny Walker talking,’” he said. “And that is Johnny Walker talking.” Then after a homily on Bosnia, he headed for bed....
...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”....
...They pay a genial tribute to jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and country pioneer Jimmie Rodgers on the title track and doff their Stetsons to a departed friend on “Missing Ol’ Johnny Cash” over a classic...
...Angry to be rumoured as the model for the character of Johnny Fontane, the crooner who cravenly seeks Mob help to further his career, Sinatra’s advice to Puzo was curt. “Choke,” the singer told him....
...And that could have been that, had it not been for Willie Nelson....
...More so than currywurst or Johnny Hallyday, anyway. Reinvented Richard Grannies assert that if you cannot say anything nice, you should say nothing at all....
...… A friend in Canada writes that being absent from her home country during the days that followed Nelson Mandela’s death made her feel an almost physical pain....
...My generation was Ricky Nelson, Paul Anka, The Beatles, Johnny Mathis. I also sing Malay songs, Hindi songs. Can you imagine how many hundreds of songs I memorised? It’s crazy.”...
...Listening to the drumming in the album’s title trackhe heard echoes of the boom-chicka-boom of Johnny Cash’s early songs....
...In those days, the safe approach was to find out what the great objective American journalistic seers (Johnny Apple of The New York Times, Jack Germond of The Baltimore Sun, Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles...
...Could Venezuelan drivers be about to make the same impact as those from Brazil did a couple of generations ago, when the likes of Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna wrested dominance of Formula...
...The Little Willies formed when Jones and several musician friends began playing country music covers in New York bars; their name is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to Willie Nelson....
...Much more it is a rose-tinted lament for the good old days, when journalistic giants such as Johnny Apple, Jack Germond and Jack Nelson roamed the political landscape in pursuit of truth, or something approximating...
...Saturday’s Barbican double bill celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Impulse label by re-imagining two classic albums, Oliver Nelson’s The Blues and the Abstract Truth and John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman...
...Coons Senator Bill Nelson Senator Marco Rubio Senator Saxby Chambliss Senator Johnny Isakson Senator Daniel Inouye Senator Daniel K. Akaka Senator Mike Crapo Senator James E....
...DeMille and Jayne Mansfield and Johnny Ramone of the Ramones – to cite only 10. I’ve deliberately held back the medical specifics of Pauline’s death, so that I could go into them in more detail here....
...It came when Nelson Mandela gave the World Cup the send-off South Africans yearned for, appearing in the stadium at the end of a colourful closing ceremony of music and dance....
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