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| | | Alan Rankine of the Associates dies aged 64 | | by Shaad D'Souza Jan 3, 2023 | | Scottish musician and record producer had a wide-reaching influence on indie artists from Björk to Belle and Sebastian Alan Rankine, one half of celebrated Scottish indie band the Associates, has died aged 64. The news was confirmed on Tuesday by his sons, Callum and Hamish, who wrote on Facebook that their father “died peacefully at home shortly after spending Christmas with his family”, describing him as “a beautiful, kind and loving man who will be sorely missed”. Born in Stirlingshire in 1958, Rankine formed the Associates in 1979 with singer Billy Mackenzie, having made early recordings with him under the name Mental Torture. Rankine and Mackenzie initially broke through with a cover of David Bowie’s Boys Keep Swinging, which itself had been a hit in the UK mere weeks earlier. The attention the pair got from the cover resulted in a record deal with Fiction, and a year later they released The Affectionate Punch, their debut album. Two years later, they followed it up with Sulk, a surprise success that spent 20 weeks on the UK albums chart. Continue reading... | | | | | Prince Harry's teasers trigger tsunami of outrage as the Windsors await his book | | by Caroline Davies Jan 3, 2023 | | Will any of the royal family react publicly to the duke’s memoir? The betting would be on Prince William As the teasers for the teasers, the trailers released of the TV interviews in which the Duke of Sussex promotes his memoir, Spare, were very short. In one, facing Tom Bradby, a coup for the ITV news anchor and erstwhile royal correspondent whom he has known for about 20 years, Prince Harry says: “I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back.” Continue reading... | | | | | |
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