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...A gift for a writer and a curse for a son, Ronnie was declared bankrupt when le Carré was five and long-suffering Olive fled, leaving her two boys to Ronnie’s dodgy entourage of grifters, “lovelies” and...
...“Bags’ Groove”, a blues written by Milt Jackson, was introduced as “a little shuffle”....
...“Escaped alleged terrorist” does sound a little more menacing....
...Interviewing this celebrated interviewer, the mood can feel a little like a hall of mirrors....
...Here the jazz is a little more low-key, yet the fine musicianship deserves as much attention as the enticing menu, which redefines Indian dishes in chef Vivek Singh’s inimitable style....
...In one of these churches, in the little village of Kilrenny, I attended a Sunday service, along with 20 or 30 others....
...The storied area conjures up images of the swinging ’60s, Carnaby Street punks, Ronnie Scott’s jazz club and seedy sex shops....
...“When she rang me on the Friday, she said, ‘Oh Dale, I’m a little drunk’, and I said, ‘Well, you don’t sound it.’ Then we just had a normal, loving conversation,” he recalls....
...Sir Ronnie Cohen, a prominent social impact investor, said that the timeframe for SITR needed to be five years to give it a chance to succeed....
...The singing is once more done by Ronnie McDowell while Johnson does little more than wear the full regalia — all the time....
...Earlier this week I stopped off for coffee in Johannesburg with Ronnie Kasrils. The 84-year-old is a legendary firebrand in the anti-apartheid movement....
...“I see Ronnie O’Sullivan’s made the guest list,” quipped another. To my mind, I was channelling 1974-era Charlotte Rampling, not the snooker player....
...Monk’s influence is at its strongest on the mood piece “Little Girl Sadly” and the jaunty “Street of Themes” includes a rare outing for Tracey on vibes....
...There’s always something a little Versailles about the power play in a fashion inner sanctum, emphasised here by the invitation created for the forthcoming show, a finely pleated paper fan....
...I was able to live for a long time on very little, and live quite well. I never wanted for anything.”...
...Ronnie Campbell, a northern Labour MP for 32 years, recalled his decades down the pit as “a hard slog”. “The conditions could be brilliant if you knew the pit....
...“My sister was a very sociable person and a good conversationalist and when she first went to her home we told them Ronnie needs people around....
...Lebanon produces little, but it has one extremely valuable export: people....
...Another brother, Ronnie, killed himself when he was a teenager, and his death haunts the family. Other unhappinesses stalk them....
...“I’m a little nervous, it’s my first gig,” he announced to everyone’s surprise. “No, at Ronnie Scott’s . . . under my own name,” he added, to clear thing up....
...whatever their breezy affectation of accent and manner, had turned spiv, the last vestiges of common decency prostituted to swindlers no better than his notorious conman father and perennial escape artist Ronnie...
...When Ronnie describes himself, in the third person, as “a different kettle of fish”, or when his mum thinks of him as, “when all was said, her good little boy, her only child, her pride and joy”, it’s clear...
...He still enjoys a little club in Elephant and Castle in south London, “that French place that has jazz upstairs and there was a very good Greek tenor sax player”, although he hasn’t been to Ronnie’s for...
...Mr Hoblyn has little faith in politicians’ ability to help him: “I’ve lost my family, and the government can’t fix that.”...
...Conductor/arranger Barker began the evening with a noirish concerto of his own and introduced the second half with a medley of modern jazz classics celebrating 60 years of Ronnie Scott’s club....
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