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...It led to his studying music formally under Modernist composers such as Darius Milhaud, who encouraged him to trust his instinct for melody....
...Thirty years ago, Suede stalked the dingy venues of Camden like a “snarling, growling rock beast”, in the smitten words of Melody Maker....
...Lead singer Win Butler searches for answers in the sound of thunder and dreams of the world being made whole....
...How many costume changes does Butler go through?...
...They are brilliant classical musicians playing haunting but contemporary lyrical interpretations of Nordic folk melodies....
...Similarly he has nothing but praise for genius guitarist Bernard Butler, a similarly tangled relationship that ended in Butler’s departure from the band....
...deploys a judgmental dance-rock throb; and the fabulously wobbly “We Used to Wait” admits the suburbs weren’t all bad – “Now our lives are changing fast / Hope that something pure can last” – its chorus melody...
...Nick Butler: The era of global oil giants is over Three months on, the consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster are becoming clearer, writes Butler, BP’s former group vice-president for strategy...
...The album’s central theme – a memorial to the Houston suburbs that Butler and his band-mate brother William grew up in – was better served by the title track, which featured a jaunty piano melody and rare...
...I acknowledge a debt to PG Wodehouse, whose master butler-fixer Jeeves always relied on his understanding of the “psychology of the individual”....
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