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...As part of last month’s deal, Brookfield has taken a minority stake in Primary Wave, which owns the songwriting catalogues of musicians such as Stevie Nicks, James Brown and Ray Charles....
...Sampha: Lahai When Sampha was a child, he used to fall asleep listening to Stevie Wonder....
...In that context, who can cavil with such exceptionally resourceful and imaginative black musicians as Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder being called geniuses?...
...I calculate these would total £16,000 using data from Ray Boulger, of mortgage broker John Charcol. That would plainly be unaffordable, particularly when other household bills are soaring too....
...“Everyone is now collaborating with everyone else,” wrote commenter Stevie Ray on the influential forum uhrforum.de. “Some are comprehensible, others like this one I don’t understand.”...
...A school report calling the boy “a ray of sunshine” is probed for racist overtones, and happily exonerated. Yet in 1980, at the age of 12, young Norman was abruptly expelled from his white family....
...Stroud talks to a handful of Ray’s clients who attended a retreat in 2009 which featured a purging ritual that left three dead. Astonishingly, Ray is still in business....
...“All of our heroes were black, from Ray Charles to Lightnin’ Hopkins, any way you want to go. Stevie Wonder was one of them . . . When I was 19 I tried to emigrate to Houston, Texas....
...The excellent house band was led by Greg Phillinganes, who has worked with Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder but who proved an unsure master of ceremonies and who failed to do justice to Ray Charles....
...But the analyst saw rays of light for the group as the disappointing performance of home lending could be a temporary issue....
...There were two ironies attached to Stevie Wonder’s 40th anniversary revival of his album Songs in the Key of Life at the British Summer Time festival in Hyde Park....
...The encore featured Takesho Obayashi’s gospel-infused keyboards and was dedicated to Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin....
...He was also a prolific studio musician and touring sideman for musicians such as the Rolling Stones, The Temptations and Stevie Wonder....
...The location of Ray Kurzweil’s San Francisco apartment must be kept confidential, warns his aide, for “important security reasons”....
...From Stevie Nicks to Taylor Swift, there had been almost no major act from the last four decades that he had not somehow touched....
...There are other echoes, too, though: Ray of Light-era Madonna; Latin touches to the guitars; and, more fancifully perhaps, the electropop that Stevie Nicks might now produce if so minded....
...Ray Puddifoot, leader, Hillingdon council. Mark Ramprakash, former cricketer. Siobhan Redmond, actress. Pat Rice, former assistant manager, Arsenal Football Club....
...guest here is cellular: the body as devastated host to the Aids virus, depicted in the multiply-layered, elaborately manipulated, disturbingly lush photograms of Mark Morrisroe, who created them from X-rays...
...from Oldham-born Sykes himself, Lancashire has produced Stan Laurel, George Formby (senior and junior), Gracie Fields, Frank Randle, Robb Wilton, Tommy Handley, Ken Dodd, Les Dawson, Eric Morecambe, Ted Ray...
...Ian Greenwood, Bradford’s leader, criticised the plan as a “party political imposition”, while Sheffield’s Paul Scriven said it was a “complete distraction”....
...It’s as if Eric Clapton or Stevie Ray Vaughan were reconditioned with a shiny new case. At the Apollo a worshipful constellation of mobile phones filmed his every move....
...The child prodigy who made his first record aged 11 (a tribute to his hero Ray Charles) has declined into a maudlin and unproductive late adulthood....
...For at least 13 years, big and small investors alike turned over their money to Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh, two New York money managers, in the belief that an “enhanced equity index’’ strategy was...
...Stevie Wonder leads an eclectic list of performers who will take to the festival’s 12 stages, including Billy Joel, Elvis Costello and his wife Diana Krall, the Count Basie Orchestra, and Sheryl Crow....
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