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...sounds less like rap and more like Prohibition-era honky-tonk, and Kate Bush's tremulous Wuthering Heights, sung stoically by orchestra leader George Hinchcliffe, is a strange brew indeed. Even better are the medleys, which might fuse up to seven songs, including a Handel air, Frank Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon and Hotel California by the Eagles. These are zealots and they're out to convert you to the worship of ukelele. Query that one of the lineup, Jonty Bankes, appears to be playing a bass guitar, and Hinchcliffe explodes: "How many strings does a bass guitar...
...Artists whose careers are measured in decades?Sinatra, McCartney, Dylan?eventually seem to inhabit an almost mythical realm of eternal fame in which their ties to the lives of ordinary beings are largely severed. Not B.B. King. Sixty years spent working with something as visceral as the blues has left him with no inclination to join the other immortals on music's Parnassus. Instead, he has chosen to remain right here with us, on the coal face of humanity, mining our rawest emotions to fuel a music that has the power to warm any heart. King's vast corpus...
Artists whose careers are measured in decades - Sinatra, McCartney, Dylan - eventually seem to inhabit an almost mythical realm of eternal fame in which their ties to the lives of ordinary beings are largely severed. Not B.B. King. Sixty years Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder spent working with something...
...hotel rebounded both times. It re-established its place in the winter sun as a dormitory for Winter Olympics athletes in 1956, and prominent guests returned in droves. Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov visited with his butterfly net as his constant companion, to the amusement of fellow residents. When Frank Sinatra was filming Von Ryan's Express in Cortina and Calalzo in 1962, he hazed hotel staff with demands such as 200 fresh eggs served on a silver tray. (An egg fight ensued, and the wallpaper was ruined.) The hotel was also the setting for The Pink Panther with Peter Sellers...
...When Frank Sinatra was filming Von Ryan's Express in Cortina and Calalzo in 1962, he hazed hotel staff with demands such as 200 fresh eggs served on a silver tray. (An egg fight ensued, and the wallpaper was ruined.) The hotel was also the setting for The Pink Panther~ with Peter Sellers and David Niven in 1963. But the rot gradually set in: wealthy patrons invested in their own chalets, and the Cristallo's owners sold it to a hotel chain, which closed it down in 1978. Before the Gualandis reopened the Cristallo for business, they commissioned a painstaking...