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...Sylvia Massy, who went on to work with Prince, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Beastie Boys, was repeatedly rejected when she applied for studio work in 1980s California....
...It follows Cabane’s debut in 2020 with Grande est la maison, which had the same cast of performers, although Will Oldham, aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy, took the part of Stables’ main duet partner....
...Who launched her own label, Luella, in 1999, with the tongue-in-cheek, artisto-chic collection titled Daddy, I Want A Pony....
...There is a sampled hook from “Saoco”, a 2004 reggaeton anthem by Daddy Yankee and Wisin. The bassline sounds like a pumped-up version of Cypress Hill’s “I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That”....
...Although it would become the subject of St Vincent’s 2021 album Daddy’s Home, Brownstein admits “it was a subject that Annie had not discussed much....
...And he goes: ‘Daddy’s awesome, that’s how.’ If we made a Super Bowl commercial, we could not have come up with a better piece of content.”...
...Prince Harry has called for a ban, arguing that it is “created to addict”. They are not wrong about the game’s habit-forming properties....
...Pop is in its most globalised form here....
...Musicians already exist in the kingdom, not just making Arabic music but western forms as well: rock, pop, rap, heavy metal, even black metal....
...The band’s style is skittish too, moving between pop-funk, pop-rock, electro and ambient pop, as on the excellent “A Change of Heart”....
...Bragg, well-known in Britain as a folk-inspired, politically active singer-songwriter, aka the “Bard of Barking”, seeks to restore skiffle to its place at the fountainhead of British pop music....
...Pop music is a primary focus for drinks marketing....
...Sturtevant, aka Elaine Sturtevant, née Elaine Francis Horan, died at 89 last May, known chiefly for not being any of the artists whose works she faithfully reproduced....
...At least in the case of Michael Kors, aka fashion’s newest billionaire, aka the designer whose now-famous IPO has vaulted him into the mega-moguls pantheon, made him the envy of much of the industry and...
...Alt-countryish types Dawn McCarthy and Will Oldham (aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy) have recorded an Everly Brothers tribute: it’s diverting enough, though the reverential results are as likely to send one off...
...But while many outsiders’ views of Liverpool music have a nostalgic tinge, the city has a vibrant pop present as well as a venerable pop past....
...More than 2,500 investors, or “Angels” – including among their number Johnny Briggs (aka Coronation Street’s Mike Baldwin) coughed up the requisite seven-figure sum....
...“This album wasn’t even my concept,” Kid Creole (aka August Darnell) explains when we meet in a hotel lobby in London’s West End....
...Lady Gaga’s Monster Claw From Bootsy Collins’ star-shaped bass to Prince’s male and female symbol guitar (aka “the androgyne”), the customised musical instrument body has historically been a male preserve...
...“There are a few modern buildings there now, but Prince Charles still has to put his foot in it every 10 minutes,” he says. “It’s not his job! It’s outrageous.” Now we are on politics....
...Instead, Mandelson has chosen to propagate, presumably consciously, the shadowy, sinister image originally created for him when he was Tony Blair’s not-so-secret spinmeister, aka the Prince of Darkness....
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney is the FT’s pop critic...
...I press the UP button (with my knuckle, to avoid super-bugs) to the Sky Garden (aka “Smoker’s Garden”) where the signal’s sharper. Going up, I discreetly check out the nurses....
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