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...Produced by the National Changgeuk Company of Korea and directed by Singaporean hotshot Ong Keng Sen, it premiered in Seoul in 2016 then toured the world, visiting London in 2018....
...In the presence of the classics, new songs come across as gimmicks....
...Notes were held with roguish showmanship, such as the pay-off line to “Black Rider”: “You’ve been on the job too lo-ong.”...
...Their new song, raising money for food banks, is called “Sausage Rolls for Everyone”....
...their way through a jaunty song and dance number in an anthropology museum....
...When I first started modelling, at the tail end of the ’90s, a model I knew at Storm had one – a Roxanne – and I used to covet it so much....
...Prince and her dramaturg Lolita Chakrabarti have tailored their tale of a family shattered and set adrift by civil war to 26 Sting songs....
...The proceeds for the new song, performed with his wife Roxanne, are going to a charity that runs food banks, an admirable cause....
...There are comic songs, accompanied by a pianist who doubles as a straight man. There are various bits about the vanity of Hollywood....
...First the loons return to the lake, and I cannot bear to miss a night being lulled to sleep by their piercing song....
...with close ties to China’s supply chain — including South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand — as weaker global corporate sentiment drove lower equipment spending, JPMorgan economist Sin Beng Ong...
...Roxanne Hawksley’s artificial funeral wreath “Pale Armistice” (1987), and John Newling’s compost constructed from 1,000 shredded copies of the poem “Eliot’s Notebooks” (2017), are among so many instances...
...It may be that facial expressions are a giveaway and that you can really, as in the Eagles song, have “Lyin’ Eyes”. Maybe nasty people do have nasty faces. But surely it is not a science?...
...The best was an epic version of “Roxanne”, a song inspired by a trip to Paris in the late 1970s, when The Police first played the venue. “Vive le Bataclan!” he called out at the end....
...Also, while they may seem to come from very different musical eras, a mere 10 years separated “Mrs Robinson” and “Roxanne”....
...The choice of songs for Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa bears the attention to detail that has elevated Steve Coogan’s comic creation to the highest ranks of comedy genius, ranging from such quintessential Alan-isms...
...But, crucially, Ong observes that the government has, in recent years, become actively engaged with the international art world....
...The support act, jazz cellist Ayanna, played an inventive set, singing Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I A Woman” speech as a gospel call to arms, and navigating the line in The Police’s “Roxanne” about not sharing...
...and turning The Police’s “Roxanne” into a croony, finger-clicking number....
...“Roxanne”, for example, “was an angry little song about jealousy. Now it sounds romantic. The context alters the emotion.” After 35 years, is he not bored of “Roxanne”? He insists not....
...Yet at this valedictory Earls Court concert, he revealed the existence of a new song: a forthcoming Christmas single no less, which is about the poppiest thing a pop star can do....
...“Roxanne”’s exhilarating rhythms were interrupted by a tedious passage of musical noodling....
...The redoubtable Christina Ong knows what she wants and expects from her Shambhala spas, which offer a short list of therapies and a rigorous training schedule....
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