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...Redmon and Sabin begin by sketching out the history with awed voiceover and clips, assisted by former clerks including film-makers Robert Greene and Alex Ross Perry....
...The modern era of popular song was for its first few decades one in which the singer — Judy Garland, say, or Frank Sinatra — was not the songwriter; that was someone else’s job....
...The fair ends on Sunday with the “godfather of dub”, Lee “Scratch” Perry, looking back at his 50-year career....
...Fed up with paying “exorbitant fees” for poor returns, the New York City Employees’ Retirement System has cut its $1.5bn programme, pulling money from managers including Perry Capital and Brevan Howard....
...By contrast, Fred Perry, the last British men’s singles champion in 1936, cashed in on his fame by pioneering his own range of sweatbands....
...Instead, it boosted his confidence in himself, and his belief that he could overcome the weight of history to emulate Fred Perry’s 1936 Wimbledon win....
...“Every developer wants a fabulous name attached to their buildings even if there’s no agreement,” says Hong Kong property agent Judy Chai....
...But in his mother Judy, a former Scottish national tennis coach, he had the perfect mentor and the opposite of the stereotypical tennis dad or mum from hell....
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