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...“Sable” was Sable Starr, one of a number of young girls attracted by the dangerous glamour of the LA rock’n’roll scene in the early 1970s....
...Mr Mercuriadis, the former manager of Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden and Beyoncé, has through Hipgnosis raised about £860m and built a portfolio of more than 50 artist catalogues....
...Meanwhile, Amazon has blamed a “bad actor” for racial slurs that appeared on some of its listings, with product images replaced with abusive messages containing the N-word....
...When Browne, BP’s chief executive, refused to speak with Fridman for an entire year, Blavatnik conducted back-channel talks with Rodney Chase, Browne’s deputy....
...The key individual was Sir Gilbert Blane, physician to Admiral Sir George Rodney’s fleet in the West Indies from 1780....
...The R&B producer Rodney Jerkins oversaw Britney Spears’ version in 2002, and turned the riff from a monolith into a molehill; Spears’ vocal was devoid of the required raunch....
...Straight Outta Compton, a film that charts the rise and disintegration of the rap group NWA, touches on the Rodney King beating and Los Angeles riots of 1992....
...The Directors’ Fortnight had some skittish entries, none more than Rodney Ascher’s 237, a documentary for Kubrick geeks about the hidden meanings in The Shining....
...In a monthly series, Rodney N. Sullivan considers how volatility of returns can adversely affect investors’ wealth accumulation over time. How popular are leveraged funds?...
...And a large diptych by Rodney Graham, “Dance!!!” (2008), shows a cowboy forcing a man to jig with a threatening Colt ($350,000). None, however, instantly found buyers at the fair....
...Then the Rodney King incident happened and people thought, ‘OK, we get it.’”...
...“They always want me to play like them old N’awlins fogies,” Louis Armstrong would complain, as, thank God, he went his own way. Quinn astutely combines her binarisms....
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