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...frame Murdoch's often tragic vignettes. The downfall of Sukie in the Graveyard gleefully stomps along to borrowed Mick Ronson guitar and David Bowie vocals while White Collar Boy is a chain-gang romance played out to the glam swagger of T. Rex and even a hint of Marc Bolan vocals. But it's the less cool, neglected hits from the mid-'70s that most enthuse Murdoch, who still sings in his local church choir. "People really think you are taking the piss when you say you liked Hall and Oates more than the Velvet Underground," he says. The Life...
...think that's why we love old analog synthesizers - like the Mellotron, which tries to imitate a human sound, an acoustic sound that's a bit wrong somehow," says Goldfrapp. They even break their own rule and plug in a guitar for the first time on the Marc Bolan glam-rock stomp of Ooh La La and Satin Chic. Through all three records, though, it is Goldfrapp's voice that is most beguiling. At moments it recalls the whispered seduction of Marlene Dietrich, then eases up the range to Kate Bush or some operatic diva, and on occasion even morphs...
Last evening, Kelmendi, Kim R. Bolan and Sharifa Ahklas, winners of the Courage in Journalism Award this year, were featured in a panel discussion at the Kennedy School of Government...
...Bolan covered the bombing of an Air India flight, which killed 329 people and has not yet been solved...
...didn't set out to get death threats," Bolan said. "I did feel strongly about a story that had been dropped from the media radar screen." And two years ago, she said, "I decided to go hard after the case...