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...On that same day on the beach, I saw a baptism happening in the sea and a group of children playing. At the time I thought, ‘If I was a painter, I’d have painted that scene.’”...
...tribute to Frank Zappa and Berio’s Folk Songs....
...“Of course you’ll be taken away!” one of the nurses said. “A new life!” she added in English....
...Well, last week a jury in New York came to the opinion that the most successful male R&B singer of the 1990s was guilty of using his superstar status to run a scheme to sexually abuse women and children...
...These were in turn used by the Royal Signals corps to make new shellac pressings. Such was the rush, that the A- and B-sides do not always match....
...Their set delivered the solid structures of well-rehearsed songs, focused solos and a frontman who knew how to work a crowd....
...music for human rights, A Change is Gonna Come....
...He was the son of immigrants who came to New York, where a lot of people told him he would never get where he wanted to be. This song is Sinatra saying he’d proved everyone wrong....
...Sea Lovers, by Valerie Martin, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£8.99/Nan A Talese, RRP$25.95 Orange Prize-winning author Martin was raised in New Orleans, and many of the unusual 12 stories in this collection are set...
...“When a song had built up from a track and Robert had his lyrical content and the overdubs were complete, then yes, I’d like to do the solo as a summing up, if you like, of my input on that song,” he explains...
...I’m of a generation for whom the most influential medium of entertainment was song....
...After an initial run of songs from N’Dour himself, the second guest was Carlou D, who came to prominence as half of Senegal’s pioneering hip-hop act Positive Black Soul....
...His debut, Cowboys and Indians (1991), was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and he then found fame with his marine epic Star of the Sea (2002), set on a famine ship bound for New York from Liverpool....
...Over the course of five days, he recorded 13-14 of his songs in a small studio near his house, playing all the instruments and singing every song....
...: (a) we really cared, and (b) we had actually told the truth.”...
...personal memoir of a New York chef....
...If I go under my own name, I can start a whole new body of work, plus if I feel like it I might do just one or two Simply Red songs.”...
...WORLD MUSIC CDS David Honigmann BURLESQUE Bellowhead Westpark Jon Boden and John Spiers lead an 11-piece folk big band in a revue packed with drunken laments and sea shanties....
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