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...Ogulu made his musical debut in 2010 with a string of single releases, eventually releasing his debut album, L.I.F.E – Leaving an Impact For Eternity in 2013....
...It has pretensions to an operatic narrative but without any of the sense of tragedy in its jaunty melody and moronic lyrics....
...F Scott Fitzgerald’s claim that “there are no second acts in American lives” has had an unintended afterlife....
...The classic example was John F Kennedy’s insistence that his advisers explore solutions to the Cuban missile crisis other than the bombing campaign his generals wanted....
...The creators of Sweet F.A. (★★★★☆) have scored the perfect venue for their musical lesson in footballing history....
...In contrast, the awkward Monkish timings of “In F” confirm the band’s innate sense of time. ★★★★☆ ‘Swallow Tales’ is released by ECM...
...The silken melody of Debussy’s La Fille aux cheveux de lin wafts sweetly from the far end of a huge room....
...This gem of a column has spawned two brilliant books and its forensic storytelling never fails to delight, bringing a new tone to even a hated melody every week....
...These songs have been diligently produced, resulting in richly textured, brooding and occasionally oneiric melodies inspired by the likes of Portishead and Nick Cave....
...“I used to write a lot about that but I realise now how exhausting it is, for your f**king sanity. Because you get, at least I got, so much shit — it was actually insane when I think back on it.”...
...“Once in a while, I f*** up.”...
...Newspapers looked at his background — a boy whose father had been shot; who was a teenage dad (to a daughter, Melody); who himself had been charged twice for assault (the first charge was dropped after a...
...John on the idea for ‘Imagine’ “Imagine” is a song conceived in my head without melody....
...Crack-Up, its title presumably paying homage to F Scott Fitzgerald’s late-life memoir of alcohol and depression, is a dense listen, with few of the earworm melodies of “Mykonos” or “White Winter Hymnal”....
...Chopin’s F minor Fantasy certainly lived up to its name, with a freedom that was intensely personal, dynamics beautifully shaded; Gavrylyuk avoided waywardness through an injection of nobility....
...It has been strenuously argued by scholars that the melody should have been A-flat, E-flat, B-flat, A-flat, instead of A-flat, E-flat, F, A-flat, as it has always been published....
...Garland grew up in Canterbury, the Kent forging house of 1970s prog-rock, and, perhaps not surprisingly, the evening was dominated by the lyrical melodies, fragments of scale and rock-inflected rhythms of...
...Twelve hours later, I returned to a nearby tent to see a midnight screening of F.W....
...F*** her! She’s 40 years old”) and Courtney Love (“No! She’s weird”). Instead she picked the twinkly-eyed Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias....
...I thought: ‘If everything f***s up, I’ve still got a house.’”...
...Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of ‘The Great Gatsby’, by Sarah Churchwell, Virago, RRP£16.99, 448 pages “There never was a good biography of a good novelist,” F Scott Fitzgerald wrote...
...“I’d sooner die than let you f*** me,” Geffen told Irving Azoff, Henley’s manager. Peaceful easy feelings seemed a distance away....
...Blackshaw took in hand the elaborate arguments of K.533 in F with fatherly patience, making even the intricate figurations of the finale seem charged with light....
...Conor Cruise O’Brien’s The Great Melody (1992) remains the best and most detailed account but Norman captures the key points....
...His preference for melody over lyrics is such that though he bid for both Warner Music and EMI in the past two years, he had no interest in the publishing arms that represent songwriters....
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