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...With Martin Luther King murdered in Memphis weeks before, Elvis publicly repays his debt to black American culture. Always eager to dodge controversy, Parker fumes in a Christmas jumper....
...As are those of his contemporary Robert Crais, whose Racing the Light (Simon & Schuster, £18.99) begins with the disappearance of a porn star and Crais’s duo Elvis Cole and Joe Pike on the trail of a sinister...
...Their new duets are songs by Cole Porter. Musical backing comes from small jazz ensembles, an orchestra and a big band....
...Hardison was a sculptor in the ’60s who created busts of prominent African-Americans – Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr Martin Luther King....
...“There is a big difference between force and violence,” said Jahmal Cole, the group’s founder, adding that some areas of Chicago had still not fully recovered from the riots of decades past....
...‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter’ — Martin Luther King Jr My first conscious experience of race was when I was six years old....
...Another was of an exhausted Martin Luther King lying on a bed in the Lorraine Motel, where he would be shot on a subsequent visit....
...Born in Kentucky, she went back to the south for the funeral of Martin Luther King and to LA to write about the aftermath of the Watts riots....
...When you hear the music of Madness, of Dexys Midnight Runners, of Elvis Costello and the Attractions, of the Teardrop Explodes, of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, you’re hearing the work of Langer, and his...
...In April, Martin Luther King was assassinated, sparking riots across the country. In June, Senator Bobby Kennedy was shot, too. The war in Vietnam was claiming more than 500 American lives a month....
...As Tad Pierson, the city’s most experienced guide, and whose clients have included Elvis Costello and the late Wilson Pickett, says, “in the black world the blues clubs on a Saturday night and church on...
...Others saying “Grace” include Elvis Presley (in 1971), Willie Nelson (1976), and even alt-rock band The Lemonheads (1987)....
...JULY … Blind Spot, by Teju Cole, Faber, RRP£20/Random House, RRP$40 (June) A marriage of words and photography from the author of Open City....
...Cassava Republic was also the first publisher to recognise the talents of Teju Cole, whose Known and Strange Things (Faber/ Random House) is my non-fiction book of the year....
...Vanilla Ice It worked for Elvis, so why not for the Iceman? Such, presumably, was the thinking behind Vanilla Ice Is Back!, a 2008 relaunch modelled on the Presley album Elvis Is Back!...
...… Every Day is for the Thief, by Teju Cole, Faber, RRP£12.99/ Random House, RRP$23 After the success of his 2011 novel Open City, Nigerian-American writer Cole returns with this genre-bending mix of...
...She took the Cole Porter song that Sinatra and Nelson Riddle turned into a blast and made it into edgy eulogy. 5....
...What was the name of Elvis Presley’s first band? The Blue Moon Boys. I had a Ted suit made for my son when he was nine years old, and he used to jive with my wife. He’s lost all interest now....
...Will pop starlet Cheryl Cole make the trip with him? Will George Michael get a crack at some much-needed career rehabilitation?...
...On March 25 1965, Dr Martin Luther King Jr celebrated the end of the five-day protest march he had led from Selma....
...For one refugee from Grosvenor, Richard Coles, of furniture dealers Godson & Coles, this includes a gothic mahogany side table, the twin of which is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and a walnut bureau...
...Like going out with Cheryl Cole’s uglier sister,” he laughs....
...His new album The Blueprint 3 is his 11th to reach the top of the US charts, surpassing Elvis Presley’s record: only The Beatles have had more US number one albums....
...I am really into Elvis at the moment. Who is your ideal travelling companion – dead, alive, historical, fictional?...
...Elvis had Colonel Tom Parker, and John, Paul, George and Ringo had Brian Epstein. McGuinness is U2’s fifth Beatle....
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