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...It was as if a bright light had gone on in the dimly lit hall. We were being treated to a rerun of the Ramaphosa routine....
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...Next year’s shows are scheduled for much larger venues than Ronnie Scott’s, such as London’s Royal Albert Hall; only a relative handful of fans were lucky enough to have witnessed the two intimate shows...
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...Which pub in Oxford (above) is named after a comedy sketch written by Ronnie Barker, who grew up there? The music-hall performer Archie Rice is the main character in which play by John Osborne?...
...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...
...Then there are the anti-psychiatry centres: David Cooper’s Villa 21 near St Albans, and Ronnie Laing’s Kingsley Hall in east London....
...Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Frank Zappa, Maria Callas and Ronnie James Dio have all returned to the stage in holographic form; more are on the way....
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