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...residents famously love to regale visitors with made-up stories-perhaps the tallest of all will be the one you hear in Murchison Station House, a 200,000-hectare sheep farm in the Western Australian outback. There you will be told that everything you see once belonged to Mukarram Jah, the eighth Nizam of Hyderabad, and that it was all seized when he failed to pay his debts. You may be inclined to laugh when you hear this. How could Jah, the grandest of Indian kings, inheritor of possibly the world's greatest private fortune, end up on a sheep...
...People believed in wealth that the eye could see," says Princess Esra Jah, the Turkish-born former wife of the grandson of the last Nizam of Hyderabad, over tea at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Bombay. Her work for the family's ambitious restoration of Hyderabad's Chowmahalla Palace as a museum is much admired, and nobles hope the family will be allowed to display permanently the Nizam's fabled jewel collection, which was acquired by the Indian government...
...such disparate concepts, places and things as Rasta philosophy, Garveyism, pirates, rebellion, guava jelly, and Trench Town - and refashioned it into focused, complex music that was concerned with reality but shot through with magic. He was a musical magic realist, a "Natural Mystic", a man who had visions of Jah, but believed in looking "for yours on earth...
...marijuana. And, interviewing him, you can see what they mean: "It's come to my head that it's going to be a melting pot - melt down all evil spirits and evil souls," says Perry, before digressing into raps on the necessity for healthy living, the coming of Jah and how he plans to put an end to reggae music once and for all. Only the knowledge that he is a clean liver these days, has a home and a beautiful, rich wife in Switzerland and is still picking up big gigs around the world, suggests that he's more...
Farrell's solo album has also weathered a few delays; it finally hit music stores last week. He downplays any major problems or obstacles, continuing to speak optimistically about Jubilee, Jane's Addiction and, yes, sexy party jah. "I've set myself up nicely," he says. "I didn't buy into idol worship. Or worshipping myself and becoming idle...