Hints and tips:
...Slap on Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, forget about that clever-clever 7/4 time signature and heed the knowing words instead: “Money, it’s a crime....
...Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” is made to resemble elevator music....
...Pianist Edward Simon’s “8’46”” marked the death of George Floyd; Potter composed “Can You See” the day after the Capitol Hill riot....
...George Floyd would be born five years later. ★★★★★ On Netflix from Friday June 12...
...The funeral of George Floyd took place on June 9. The protests continued....
...“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come,” said Marvin Rees, the Labour mayor of Bristol, who in 2016 became the first elected black mayor of any European city....
...Although Floyd Mayweather has retired, the country still has a plausible world number one in Andre Ward....
...And with the Love & Hate album he has moved beyond the soul-folk template of his debut: tonight’s opening number, “Cold Little Heart”, with its extended guitar intro, brought to mind Pink Floyd....
...All this came back to mind because boxing, which once captured the global imagination, has another “fight of the century” next Saturday when welterweights Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao duke it out...
...The synthesizers on Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. The drum sound on Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing”. Radiohead’s Kid A. Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek”....
...So we are still awaiting the much-heralded encounter between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao, the two best welterweights in the world....
...concept albums because there is an underlying theme, a story being told, or some sort of adventure, fable or journey; so there’s a distinct conceptual form to albums such as Frank Sinatra’s Watertown (1970), Marvin...
...The time slot, 18 minutes, shorter than a Pink Floyd tune-up, seems perfectly prescribed for the average attention span, given that you have to listen to five in succession....
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