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...Shirley Collins suffered this scenario in real life....
...“Here Comes That Day” cast her as a Shirley Bassey belter, albeit with a vastly narrower vocal reach. “Peek-A-Boo” was a fantasy of Weimar hip-hop....
...Shirley Bassey turned her 1972 hit “Grande, Grande, Grande” into “Never, Never, Never”....
...Described by folk singer Shirley Collins as “one of the loveliest English dance tunes”, this tale of outcast lovers ceases to be quite so lovely in Lankum’s hands....
...A mighty passage of Shirley Bassey-style belting makes it clear their efforts will prove futile. The album lays claim to the Nashville archetype of the strong woman....
...Franz Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber (“The Treasure Hunter”) opened in Frankfurt in 1920....
...Aretha Franklin’s Young, Gifted and Black was released in January, one day before congresswoman Shirley Chisholm became the first African-American person and the first woman to run for the Democratic party...
...Garbage’s Shirley Manson guests on “Alien Inside”, reciting a similar voiceover to Sakamoto’s....
...Once on, Hunter and Magni present a richly strange little couple — she resembling an ageing Shirley Temple, he calling to mind Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin — marooned centre stage amid a baroque arrangement...
...In contrast to the sexual hedonism common in 1970s rock, he remained with his wife Shirley Ann Shepherd, who he married in 1964....
...According to her first album, Shirley Bassey was Born to Sing the Blues. Released in 1957, when she was 20, her debut’s title proved misleading....
...Pale flowers that bloom at night support insects they feed on, says Shirley Thompson of the BCT. Tubular blooms such as honeysuckle attract the moths favoured by long-eared bats....
...Consider, too, how many black singers there were, and not minor artists, but A-list celebrities — Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Reri Grist, Grace Bumbry, Shirley Verrett, George Shirley, Simon Estes, Jessye...
...Luvvie-hunters will enjoy Judi Dench too. As Old Deuteronomy, she, like her old Shakespeare mate, does not exactly “sing”....
...Furrer’s work is based on a text by Russian author Vladimir Sorokin, but he and librettist Händl Klaus have tossed in additional ideas, including references to Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Bruegel’s “The Hunters...
...His mother is the celebrated children’s book author and illustrator Shirley Hughes....
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney is the FT’s pop music critic...
...He was alluding to characters like Miss Joan Hunter Dunn and “Pam, you great big mountainous sports girl” — women brimming with health and vigour, a tennis racket permanently welded to their hands....
...Billy Wilder’s 1960 classic The Apartment ends with Shirley MacLaine, miserable at a New Year’s party with the dreadful Mr Sheldrake, as the band play “Auld Lang Syne”, before she takes her leave and ends...
...Darren Shirley, analyst at Shore Capital, expected sugar to make a £2m interim loss and ebit of £25m in the full year....
...www.bayreuther-festspiele.de ——————————————- Letter in response to this article: Wagner’s distaste for modern times/ From Ms Maureen Green An important step in interpretation / From Mr Christopher Hunter...
...From Mr Christopher Hunter....
...“Everyday” pretty much sums up this evangelical hymn to the humdrum, painstakingly quotidian, even though shot over five years, in its diary-ish picture of a wife (Shirley Henderson) and four growing kids...
...The only difference: no one knows from minute to minute who is the quarry, who the hunter. Lots of people get blown away. In one scene a cop squats on a sidewalk with a knife stuck in his eye....
...The title track’s martial beat and assertive vocals inch towards Shirley Bassey territory; “Babyfather” is a wistfully catchy reggae paean to fathers (Sade’s left when she was a baby); “Bring Me Home” places...
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