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...He laughs at some of his encounters over the decades with his musical heroes, such as the time Mick Jagger came to join him at a dinner in London. “I had no idea what to talk about....
...Attendees were treated to a musical performance by Coldplay as well as some jokes from its lead singer Chris Martin....
...But Wood’s track record at AllianceBernstein was both volatile and underwhelming, according to Morningstar....
...It’s often the case that fertile city scenes lead to bands copying each other, a sort of musical regression to the mean....
...“She wanted me to write a stage musical of her life. She was thinking about her biography, and how her life would be shown.”...
...(FT Alphaville) Golden oldies A growing musical taste for “the old stuff” has pivoted the future of the streaming wars directly into the past, writes Spotify’s former economist Will Page, as yesteryear’...
...If, for example, Alphaville wanted to register ourselves as the musical geniuses (or not) behind The Beatles' Yesterday, we might get a refusal. Proving a negative, however, is more difficult....
...But the main driver was securing the services of Dre and Iovine, the hip-hop legend and the musical Zelig with a knack for finding hits and the producers to make them....
...“The one thing I know is that 40 years ago all hedge funds were run by geniuses, and there [were not many of them]. Today I am sure there are not 10,000 geniuses. It just doesn’t make sense....
...Kaplan, with a shrug: “Geniuses contradict themselves.” Overblown acclamations mount up, the literary equivalent of bobby-soxer fervour....
...While record labels and artists are looking for a financial saviour, Apple’s priority is to use content to sell hardware....
...The musical chairs among large global banks that battle to win roles on blockbuster transactions has also helped Centerview gain momentum as clients are promised a more independent, focused and less conflicted...
...Several musical celebrities made appearances, including Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor, and the Canadian rapper Drake....
...The gathering of some of the world’s top musical talent by hip-hop star Jay Z this week was on a scale unseen since 1985, when Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie assembled a starry cast of singers to record...
...In 2011 when Will.i.am’s group the Black Eyed Peas played the halftime show at the Super Bowl – the most-watched musical performance of the year – he tricked the National Football League into building the...
...Da Vinci could imagine (and draw) helicopters in the 15th century because he was a genius; Babbage and Lovelace could imagine programmable computers in the 19th century because they were geniuses....
...We’d resisted the advice of Disney executives who believed that since they’d had such success with musicals, we too should fill our movie with songs....
...The New York-born, Dublin-raised musical auteur ran up huge recording bills making Loveless, almost bankrupting his record company Creation as he searched for precisely the sound he wanted....
...Both sites are well known among Russian internet users as sources of free copyrighted content, from Hollywood blockbusters to musical hits....
...“An interesting musical opportunity is in your near future,” read one. The other said simply: “Study and prepare yourself and one day, your day will come.”...
...The musical, titled Viva Forever will open in 2012. “Mamma Mia! turned musical theatre into something lighter,” says Craymer....
...To Music is the first part of a trilogy that braids his musical and literary interests....
...I made 21 musical works from a grab-bag of pop culture’s debris, taking verses from here, hijacking choruses from there, and altering all in tempo and key....
...In spite of its impressive growth and record of stealing customers from larger competitors, DocuSource could not find a bank to back its expansion plans....
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