Pop and rockObituaryMick Farren obituaryMusic journalist, singer and novelist who incarnated the spirit of rock'n'rollMick Farren did not invent the punk rock movement, but he certainly sounded the alarm with a June 1976 essay in the New Musical Express. Under the headline The Titanic Sails at Dawn, borrowed from the lyric of Bob Dylan's Desolation Row, he examined a growing disaffection among the paper's readership with the increasing complacency of a rock scene grown fat on the proceeds of the 60s boom. Read More...
TexasAshok Kolla, with the Telugu Association of North America, had the grim task of calling relatives thousands of miles away
Ashok Kolla walked past the news cameras at the Allen Premium Outlets on Sunday, phone to his ear, trying to find the woman from Hyderabad who was unaccounted for after the deadly mass shooting at the mall a day earlier.
“Can you tell me which hospital she is at?” Kolla said into the phone. Read More...
JamaicaObituaryBlanche Blackwell obituaryHeiress who became the ‘Jamaican wife’ of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and was supposedly the model for Goldfinger’s Pussy Galore
Blanche Blackwell, who has died aged 104, was a divorcee in her 40s when in 1956 she met Ian Fleming, her neighbour in Jamaica and the creator of James Bond; and soon they became lovers. Cracks had by then begun to show in Fleming’s marriage to Ann Charteris. Read More...
