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...This sanctified figure has materialised in the Prince Edward Theatre after packing ’em in on Broadway, where the jukebox musical version of Jackson’s life has grossed more than $180mn since 2021....
...Everyone, from Jane Austen to Sally Rooney, has made a fortune on the premise that, if you are pure and patient, you will transcend socio-economic barriers (and physical disadvantage) and your prince will...
...Instead, the vocal parts in the songs are split between Genders and Stables....
...The sold-out Roundhouse was a sea of twinkling mobile-phone lights for the closing “Purple Rain” (very much not the Prince song), in which Payper listed the young offender institutions and prisons he once...
...Christiane Karg, when not in the frock or the worm suit, gets to lurch about like Gollum and sounds strained; her famous “Song to the Moon” is awkwardly delivered from the bathtub....
...“There’s a song doing the rounds in demonstrations around the country, saying that Ariel Henry came and destroyed the country,” Clesca said....
...By the time she swooped into the hypnotic, engagingly skew-whiff “Simulation”, two songs later, she was sporting a top hat at a rakish angle....
...“Every now and then, insert a track people know but a remix or cover, like a Turkish folk version of a Rod Stewart song. People go, ‘What is that song?’...
...If Prince George’s first born is a daughter, he should definitely be urged to call her Elizabeth — for both family and musical reasons! Gavin Turner Hanworth, Norfolk, UK...
...In 2018, grime icon Wiley, was awarded an MBE by Prince William. Last year, former US president Barack Obama listed tracks from Stormzy, Dave and Central Cee on his annual playlist....
...In a 2016 documentary the show’s director, Hal Prince, who would not work again with Sondheim for decades, remembered thinking: “I’ve never been happier rehearsing actors, never gone home more sure a show...
...It’s an alternate version of Cinderella in which the heroine, Celaena Sardothien, is an assassin rather than a maid — attending the ball not to meet the prince, but to kill him....
...The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...And our theme song is by Metaphor Music....
...Tamino’s first album, Amir (his other name means “prince” in Arabic), came out in 2018. It reflected his heritage by blending electric guitars with an orchestra of Arab musicians....
...The song celebrates King Wongol, a loa in vodou tradition....
...His song of choice is Sinatra’s “My Way” — I’m not surprised....
...This was a place I accessed easily as a teenager, when I could love songs and movies with every fibre of my being, staking out my very identity....
...The Prince protégé announced herself in 2010 with The ArchAndroid, a concept record inspired by the classic sci-fi film Metropolis....
...It is as if, in the 1980s, Madonna, Michael Jackson and Prince were all the same person. In pop, if not politics, we live in a unipolar world....
...Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” that launched her as a star, to her own material, traditional Irish ballads and reggae....
...And when the women sing the spine-tingling, a cappella “Hold This House Together”, they seem to be commenting on far more than the 1960s. ★★★★☆ To May 27, almeida.co.uk Ain’t Too Proud Prince Edward...
...In keeping with the retro flavourings in his songs, the music sounded live rather than bulked out by pre-recorded elements. A horn quartet gave a Prince-style swing to “Music for a Sushi Restaurant”....
...Marlene Dietrich is not the only person who, as her song had it, still has a suitcase in Berlin. In Search of Berlin is not easy to define....
...The daddy of them all, however, was Schubert, who composed more than 1,500 works, including around 600 songs and nine symphonies (OK, so he didn’t finish one) and all in 26 fewer years on this Earth than...
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