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...It’s an African-American spiritual song, and if you guys are familiar with it....
...I think Robert F Kennedy Jr has said he’s already running. Is that correct?...
...“Psychedelics are really unpredictable,” says Zoe Cormier, author of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll....
...Kendall is passed over by his father to become chief executive, but still ends up singing a laudatory, cringe-inducing rap: “L to the O, G, A, N.”...
...Itoje has been told he does not “talk like a black guy” or “dress like a black guy”, somehow failing to fit a stereotype that his race comes with a standardised accent and uniform....
...William Harrison Withers Jr was born in 1938 in Slab Fork, a small coal mining town in West Virginia. His father, a miner, died when he was 13. His mother was a maid....
...“For a guy who couldn’t get approved for the Ambassador to the U.N. years ago, couldn’t get approved for anything since, ‘begged’ me for a non Senate approved job, which I gave him despite many saying ‘Don...
...“Which means that he is always a guy who can find the right people who are doing the right things and become part of it at a good moment.”...
...I never got to gaff marlin with Hunter S Thompson. So when the invitation came to go cod fishing in Norway with the hell-raising DBC Pierre, there was no way I was about to pass it up....
...He once met the Nazi-hunter, in Vienna in 1962....
...“Then a guy bombed one the next day, so of course I was chuffed that I could have inspired such a thing. But I couldn’t take credit for it.”...
...Antoine Dominique Domino Jr had French Creole roots. He was born in New Orleans, and lived there for the rest of his life....
...Jordan escorted his client Charlayne Hunter through the mob, a moment captured in a now-famous photograph....
...The guy who gets the girl at the end is the one who refuses a bottle of Heineken from her: a novel marketing ploy....
...“If this guy croaks, I’m fucking finished,” Sinatra frets. No wonder even his closest friends called him “the Monster”....
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney is the FT’s pop critic Photographs: Getty; Ben Watts; WireImage; EMPICS; Josh Shinner...
...It has the best Korean and Mexican food in America and, in the case of In N’Out Burger, the best hamburger chain....
...By some quirk of cultural transmission, a ululating call originating either with Alpine herders or African hunter-gatherers became one of America’s favourite sounds in the first half of the 20th century....
...“Name one pop or rock ’n’ roll guy who actually made a living in country music – and I think it might just be me,” Rucker agrees....
...“Look at that guy!”...
...The conduit for my above epiphany was a new book by Stephen Hunter....
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney is the FT’s pop critic ………………………………………….....
...The message is to let off at least some steam when you’re younger, even if you don’t go as far as the guy in the song....
...There, he will work alongside interim chief Jeremy Blood, an old S&N colleague. Readers of hop leaves do not expect the appointment as the grooming of a permanent chief....
...It was hard to know how to respond (well done guys, you’re singing), except to note that their vocals weren’t bad....
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