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Legendary R & B singer Natalie Cole dies
The R & B singer Natalie Cole, winner of 9 Grammy Awards died today at the age of 65 after several years of health issues.The daughter of the late great Nat King Cole, Natalie rose to musical success in the mid-1970s with hits “This Will Be”, “Inseparable”, and “Our Love”. Her biggest success however came…
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There Is Nothing Like A Dame
Explaining the British Honours System where twice a year H.M. The Queen (advised by a Political Appointed Committee) hands out fancy Titles and Awards for allegedly the “good and the great” of the Country, to a non-Brit is far from easy. In theory any member of the public can be nominated to receive one of…
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Aretha Franklin feels ‘like a natural woman" dressed in her Mink.
An undoubted highlight of this years Kennedy Center Honors was 72 year old Aretha Franklin (an Honoree in 1994) serenading Carole King with her own “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman“ and reducing the President to tears. BUT why oh why didn’t anyone bother to show the Queen of Soul where the cloakroom was…
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The Hateful 8
You would have had to be living on another planet for the past couple of decades not to know that all the movies made by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino contain some of the most excruciating gratuitous violence ever seen on the screen. However you will also know, and hopefully appreciate, that at the same time they…
