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...“Norman and Duglas and I entered into the world of Glasgow — we’d go into the city and busk Velvet Underground and Talking Heads songs outside M&S.”...
...She followed it with an astute cover of The 1975’s electronic-pop number “The City”....
...He and his producer/collaborator Sebastian Krys have been working on nine separate albums over the past few years, since 2018’s Look Now....
...They were turned down by scores of labels before being signed to Dirty Hit, the label set up by The 1975’s manager, Jamie Oborne, after they too had been rejected by the major labels....
...His new album, Surrounded By Time, is his fourth in the past decade to be produced by Ethan Johns, the latest in a run of grave, serious records since 2010’s Praise & Blame that have separated him from his...
...Healy and his bandmates — guitarist Adam Hann, bassist Ross MacDonald and drummer George Daniel — see themselves as continuing in the grand tradition of big bands....
...“Frail State of Mind”, with Hann swapping his guitar for keyboards, was fabricated from UK garage and introspection, like a gentle rave....
...Given that Fogel also promotes U2 and Lady Gaga, and that he promoted the most financially successful tour in history — U2’s 360º tour — it’s worth taking notice....
...There are signs of evolution since the Washington DC trio’s debut, 2014’s Rips, but not towards sophisticated, polyrhythmic explorations of musical inner space....
...The follow-up to Have You in My Wilderness, a record that is clearly pop, even if way off at the sides, was 2018’s dense, 90-minute-long Aviary, on which bagpipes, strings and snatches of the Occitan language...
...[from 1997’s Bridges to Babylon album] ‘What? We haven’t done that for years!’ But it will come out of the pack and send us back to the drawing board. That’s what keeps the interest going....
...By 2015’s astounding Ten Love Songs, the transformation into a form of mechanised melancholy was complete, with a 10-minute centrepiece, “Memorial”, that managed to encompass choral music, power balladry...
...Pierce speculates that being out of step with almost all their contemporaries means that Spacemen 3’s music has aged better....
...That meant that Healy and his colleagues — guitarist Adam Hann, bassist Ross MacDonald, drummer George Daniel — occupied the same illuminated space rather than being picked out individually....
...Their last two albums, 2008’s Death Magnetic and last year’s Hardwired . . ....
...It was summer 1989, and the mulletted DJ was on duty presenting BBC1’s Thursday night chart extravaganza Top of the Pops....
...It was a sober, understated start to a show for 20,000 people — no pyrotechnics, no wham or bam — and the Bad Seeds built slowly for four songs, until they revisited 1984’s “From Her to Eternity”, which...
...Her last two solo albums, 2011’s Strange Mercy and 2014’s St Vincent, deserved every fawning review, and every sale....
...Her third album, 1997’s Come On Over, is the ninth biggest-selling record ever, as well as the best-selling country album of all time, the best-selling studio album by a woman, and the best-selling album...
...Like Wonga, Iceland’s motivation for allowing BBC2 to film the cameras to document a year at the retail empire, in BBC2’s fly-on-the-wall Life in the Freezer Cabinet, was to challenge prejudices....
...Since Miller’s departure, Biomet has been run by interim president Daniel Hann....
...Since he left, the company has been run by interim president Daniel Hann and some irritation has been voiced by investors over the amount of time headhunters have taken to find a replacement....
...And all that was predicted to happen by the 1990’s....
...Mike Lee, London 2012's communications director, said: "This latest piece of analysis confirms what we are hearing in our own campaign work....
...Perish the thought that BHS boss Philip Green night be indulging in schadenfreude over the troubles of M&S man Stuart Rose. mudlark@ft.com...
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