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...The lack of original work since then shows that The Stones have been sufficiently hard-headed to realise that less is more when it comes to new records. Hackney Diamonds therefore represents a risk....
...Waters told Rolling Stone on Tuesday: “It’s an unnecessary war . . ....
...People of a literary or artistic bent began to gravitate, once again, towards pursuits such as calligraphy, traditional music and stone collecting....
...The diverging popularity of natural and so-called “lab-grown” stones has been laid bare this month....
...he coolly wore in a music video shortly thereafter....
...This model of enlightened patronage may owe something to Vijayanagar’s 16th-century poet-king Krishnadevaraya, who ploughed the empire’s fabulous wealth — in sandalwood, spices, diamonds and horses (even...
...Pink Floyd, known for hits such as “Money” and “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, could soon be $500mn richer, with Warner Music and KKR-backed BMG competing to buy the band’s entire back catalogue, according...
...The last music I downloaded was The Guardian’s G2 Playlist, from the Film & Music supplement. I was born in 1965, and grew up with punk rock and new wave....
...Now as a longtime Stones watcher, I doubt that call took place....
...It’s a beautiful little stone building tucked away on a cobbled side street in the New Town, and the small space doesn’t take much to get packed out....
...Emeralds, the softest but by far the hardest of the three stones, requires subtleties of style and phrasing that the Australian corps and soloists have yet to master....
...Now try this This week I mostly listened to the Rolling Stones’ new record Hackney Diamonds, an album that is never any worse or any better than “very pleasant”, I think....
...She maps the diamonds’ tricontinental journey — from the Kimberley rough stones’ voyage to London, to the polishing factories in Amsterdam, then to jewellery stores in the US where an industrial boom had...
...The last music I downloaded was The Beatles’ The White Album. I love the open sensibility of it, the emotion. As a band, they represented a huge shift for me....
...Take a break from the news The Rolling Stones’ new album Hackney Diamonds represents a risk....
...Resistance from Antwerp, the centre of the world diamond trade through which 86 per cent of the world’s rough stones pass, has been perceived as the key reason for the EU’s U-turn....
...In this case, it’s being sent to Sydney, Australia in a shipping container disguised as Italian natural stone....
...Bourque’s neon-light-strewn workshop would once have been surrounded by scruffy studios where the Kinks, Bowie and Rolling Stones made their first recordings....
...The event, due to take place four days later at Radio City Music Hall, would put Yaccarino in her comfort zone: centre stage....
...The background music swells. “I wish I could freeze this moment,” she says over the orchestral strings....
...A senior IRGC commander killed in Syria, IRGC being the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps....
...Meanwhile, a whopping 102.18ct brown-yellow diamond centre stone is Moussaieff’s hallmark....
...“There were two big export markets: the court of the Ottoman Sultan, which had a fondness for diamonds, and the Chinese emperor....
...The last music I downloaded was Robert Ellis’s “Yesterday’s News”....
...When we left Iran in 1979, we left with nothing and all my mum took was a little bag of her jewellery, including the watch and a diamond signet ring....
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