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...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
...(Co-founders Ronnie Scott and Pete King fought union restrictions that barred US jazz musicians from attaining work permits in the UK.)...
...in 1952, a day before King George VI died, the then Princess Elizabeth attended a service....
...The storied area conjures up images of the swinging ’60s, Carnaby Street punks, Ronnie Scott’s jazz club and seedy sex shops....
...Supping on a Guinness towards closing time, he was approached by Ronnie Mason, who at the time headed up the BBC’s Repertory Company, the broadcaster’s radio drama department....
...He makes a great Elvis: he looks the part, moves well and, perhaps wisely, lets country star Ronnie McDowell do the singing....
...The next morning he would be going down the Mall with King Charles. He had a spring in his step. He teased some of his younger, more idealistic questioners....
...King kept the club ticking over for nine years, before selling it to theatre-owner Sally Greene. By then, says Greene’s business partner Michael Watts, Ronnie’s was “on the bones of its arse”....
...The erstwhile “King of New York” is now a smaller, softer kind of criminal. “It happens when you get old,” Walken shrugs....
...Bug has tried to support his family legally but with his auto shop about to go bust, he is drawn into the violent orbit of Ronnie Sessions....
...The body of which medieval Scottish king was discovered by workmen at Dunfermline Abbey in 1818? Which California air base was a regular landing site for the space shuttle (above)?...
...Pianist Mike King was his equal, with a robust two-handed technique and ability to sustain invention and tension at high and low speeds....
...King’s “Stand by Me” by the chic designer furniture and array of Grammy awards displayed behind him....
...The evening ended with an unexpected Nat King Cole medley....
...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....
...Who wrote the lyrics for the musical The Lion King (above)? Whose two wives have been Madonna and Robin Wright? Click here for the answers...
...Ronnie Cheung, a Hong Kong-based assistant vice-president, also left the bank. Justin King, the former head of J Sainsbury, has stepped back from the daily running of Terra Firma, Sky News reported....
...Jacqueline Kennedy holding the card for the king of hearts, severed by a bullet. A beaming Nancy Reagan, Ronnie reflected in her starry pupils....
...Then the insistent rhythms of “Four Play” were followed by the R&B of Earl King’s “Trick Bag”. Audience participation came mid-set with a tongue twister....
...It has had more than its share of celebrity residents, from Beatles John Lennon and Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones to racing driver Jenson Button and actor Kate Winslet....
...In the mid-1960s the city was awash with opportunities: when Davis heard him play at Ronnie Scott’s, his list of credits ranged from Roy Orbison and Lulu to John Dankworth and Coleman Hawkins....
...Two poets reading their work along to an understated pitter-patter of percussion reduced a Ronnie Scott’s full house to an even more reverential hush than usual....
...Ahmed’s grandfather used to play trumpet with the John Dankworth Seven, Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott....
...Ronnie King, secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Fire Safety & Rescue Group, said: “We have been saying for years that the regulations need to be changed.”...
...As in his recent Ronnie Scott’s residency, Elling reworked “Little Drummer Boy” into a transcendent celebration of rhythm....
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