André Rieu: 'I hated my piano teacher. She was a total bitch. … She was like my mother'
As befits a man whose backing band is an orchestra, André Rieu’s home is a castle.
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A £200 stereo, a song written in 20 minutes and sausage and chips: The making of 'Teenage Kicks'
Late 1974, 16-year-old John O’Neill and younger brother Vinny were playing no-frills songs on guitars in their front room at No 22, Beechwood Avenue on Derry’s Bogside. They soon formed what could be loosely termed a band, with friends Billy Doherty and Mickey Bradley from the Creggan estate, on drums and bass respectively.
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Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection: Volume 4 Arriving February 13
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'I needed to find out who Zoë Rocha was without being defined by the family' – The TV producer on family ties and forging her own path
Zoë Rocha’s first memory is of being in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, at five years of age with her grandparents, Michael and Kathleen Doolan. On a walk by the river, the child leaned over to have a better look. Her beret tumbled in. Panic ensued. “I managed to fish it out eventually,” she remembers. “I don’t know why that stays with me, but I’ve never forgotten that day.” An amateur psychologist might, perhaps, speculate as to the significance of a lost hat to the child of two fashion designers, John Rocha and Eily Doolan. Rocha was born in Dublin’s Mount Carmel hospital on Fe...
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'In my most anxious periods it would be the worst things I can say to myself, like "I am letting people down"' – HAVVK's Julie Hough on the sleep anxiety that inspired new music
In 2019, sleep stopped being a balm for Julie Hough. She took anxiety to bed with her. She would sleep badly, and wake up at four in the morning. This became her routine for the last six years. She realised she had to figure out the things that were “so destructive they were keeping me awake at night,” she says.
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