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STORIES: I MIGHT REGRET TELLING YOU

she digs into the deep recesses of herself with the same emotional honesty that has come to define her music
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MARTHA WAINWRIGHT

The songs [on Love Will Be Reborn] are autobiographical in many ways
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MEMBERS OF A DYNASTY (Part 1) Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is the first of two stars we feature in sidetacks & detours this week, the other being Martha Wainwright, who is part of an acting and musical dynasty.

RED ELLEN:

RED ELLEN: People’s History Museum exhibition 9th Nov previewed by I love Manchester newsletter This November, the People’s History Museum (PHM)  is shining a spotlight on one of the North’s most indomitable figures,…

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Quincy Jones died this week just as Herb Alpert´s Trumpet became fifty years,... and much more officially
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BAND BOOKS: DIFFERENT STORIES

I have selected two books, each written or co-written by two members of The Band, Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson respectively.
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When Canadian musicians started a revolution SOUTH OF THE BORDER

I look back to when I was one and twenty, as A E Housman would have had it, and feel sure I was in my salad days. I had fallen in love with a generation of songwriters and was enjoying the folksy, pastoral music that was a gentler sibling of rock. We had a stereophonic recording player that was like a piece of furniture and it had a sliding door over the turntable and I often tried to squeeze my head into the cabinet so that I could hear, even better, the fierce emotions wrapped in such laid back and softly sung arrangements. When I married and had a home of our own I was enjoying listening to how this generation of Canadian songwriters began to influence the writers who would forge what we now call Americana.
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SLAVE – A QUESTION OF FREEDOM

Slave – A Question of Freedom closed its run at The Lowry Theatre on Saturday October 12th. It told the hard-hitting true story of Mende Nazer, who explores her dark experience with modern-day slavery with the play beginning in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains during the mid-90s until moving to London in the 2000s.