Hints and tips:
...One scoop to start: US private equity group Blackstone is vying to buy Pink Floyd’s back catalogue, a major bet on music rights that could value the band’s songs at almost half a billion dollars....
...Lilah Raptopoulos That’s my colleague, Nilanjana Roy....
...Here he is talking to the big boss, Logan Roy. Stewy Hosseini The issue here, sir, is that everyone fucking hates you. Logan Roy It’s cloudy, it’s sunny. Stewy Hosseini Your COO is a fucking joke....
...But Mohsen (Anish Roy) is more wary, seeing the way that security guards eye up the pair, and worried about the quiet sacrifices that come with fitting in....
...Roy Swan, director of the Ford Foundation’s Mission Investments team, said Floyd’s death had “elevated these issues to the attention of people in power”, many of whom were startled by the levels of inequality...
...Biden had called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act ahead of the first anniversary of Floyd’s death....
...“This building is iconic all over the world,” Roy Blunt, Republican senator from Missouri, said as he introduced the bill last month....
...Williams recently brought together 846, a collection of short plays by multiple writers responding to the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota in May....
...Laing’s gift for weaving big ideas together with lyrical prose sets her alongside the likes of Arundhati Roy, John Berger and James Baldwin....
...But his remarks on Floyd’s death were not without precedent....
...Now it plays out in the wake of summer 2020, the killing of George Floyd and a period that has again seen people pile on to the streets in protest. Is Parkes shocked that it feels so timely?...
...The CDC also recommended that organisers of large public events enforce strict safety standards, in advice that applies to the protests that have swept the country following the death of George Floyd, and...
...As protests swept the US in the wake of the George Floyd killing, I read about the racial legacy of the Deep South as told in the verses of Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard....
...In response to the police killing of George Floyd on May 25, California’s Night Gallery has opened a group exhibition online with 100 per cent of its share of proceeds going to Black Lives Matter Los Angeles...
...The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac also featured, with heritage acts continuing to sell well on the older format....
...Opening song “Trafalgar Square” highlighted the strain of anglophilia in his music, also audible in “Miriam Montague”, a souped-up version of early Pink Floyd....
...“He kept the edge but built it like it was a Pink Floyd record.”...
...Led Zeppelin wrote a song about him, Pink Floyd recorded with him, Kate Bush raved about him; but Roy Harper never got the sales to match the respect....
...Roy Wood’s Wizzard supplied the clamorous “I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day” (I don’t believe you)....
...Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jr were last month contesting the Ring magazine light-heavyweight crown rather than that of any of the sanctioning bodies....
...His confrontation with Roy Jones Jr begins a sequence of fights for Britain’s best-known boxers....
...Back at Portalspace, Roy Matthews thinks the CD is in greater peril than the LP....
...Roy Plomley was getting ready for bed one winter’s evening in rural Hertfordshire in 1941 when he had an inspiration....
...Mr Salazar is supported by 75 per cent of Hispanic voters, while Mr Kerry has the backing of only 55 per cent, says Floyd Ciruli, a Denver-based analyst....
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