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Few bands have altered the landscape of popular music as profoundly as Pink Floyd. Their music could be intimate enough to sound like a private thought and, moments later, enormous enough to fill a stadium. They wrote about madness, mortality, war, greed, loneliness and the strange machinery of modern life. Continue Reading

There was something almost cinematic about Aristotle Onassis long before cinema attempted to capture him. He was the Greek shipping magnate who built an international empire across the oceans, entertained politicians and royalty aboard his yacht, owned his own Mediterranean island and became one of the most famous businessmen of Continue Reading

Hero of Acting Who Refused to Disappear There are actors who become famous, actors who become stars, and then there are the rare performers who somehow become part of the furniture of popular culture. John Travolta belongs firmly in that last category. For nearly half a century, he has moved Continue Reading

Stevie Wonder is one of the defining musical figures of the modern era: singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, campaigner and humanitarian. Born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on 13 May 1950 in Saginaw, Michigan, he was six weeks premature and developed retinopathy of prematurity, losing his sight shortly after birth. Yet blindness never Continue Reading

COMFORTABLY NUMB: WHEN ROGER WATERS’ DARKNESS MET DAVID GILMOUR’S GUITAR THE PINK FLOYD MASTERPIECE BORN FROM TWO VERY DIFFERENT MEN There are songs that belong to an album, and there are songs that eventually seem to escape from it. Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” did exactly that. Released on The Wall Continue Reading