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Joy Oladokun displays raw emotion, honest realities at Nashvillle's Ryman Auditorium

The Tennessean 28 Mar 2025
... brooding Sly and the Family Stone compresses next to Diana Ross' torch song take on "Reach Out And Touch (Somebody's Hand) has inspired five decades of Black people making soul music becomes apparent.
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Destroyer’s Dan Bejar Still Isn’t Sure What He’s Doing

New York Magazine 27 Mar 2025
You stopped writing songs for over a year after Labyrinthitis ... Going five years without writing a song would be panic-inducing for me ... And it was this very emotional song ... In some ways, it’s more of a traditional song, like a torch song.
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Milwaukee Rep's 'The Last Five Years' is a flawless production about doomed romance

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 24 Mar 2025
The trick here, as many of you know, is that we hear Grace's side backwards in time, from their split (her torch song "I'm Still Hurting") to their meeting ("Goodbye Until Tomorrow"), while Jamie goes in chronological order.
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Boxing legend George Foreman remembered for his impact in and out of ring

Journal Gazette 23 Mar 2025
Photos ... Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones' greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and survivor of the lifestyle she once embodied, died Thursday, Jan ... .
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Harvey Fierstein claims he's "been banned" from the Kennedy Center after Trump takeover

AV Club 21 Mar 2025
Those shows, most of which have been performed there in the past, include, KINKY BOOTS. LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, TORCH SONG TRILOGY, HAIRSPRAY, SAFE SEX, CASA VALENTINA, SPOOKHOUSE, A CATERED AFFAIR, THE SISSY DUCKLING, BELLA BELLA and more.” ... Club ... .
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Rizzle Kicks: “I went over to Noel Gallagher at Glastonbury and told him to stop ...

NME 21 Mar 2025
Which song’s lyric tipped him over the edge? ... “We were big fans of Fun Lovin’ Criminals and had even spoken about doing a song together with Huey.” ... You namechecked Beyoncé in the song’s lyrics ... “I don’t even know one Cliff Richard song.
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‘We no longer accept huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Sorry for the inconvenience.’

The Los Angeles Times 20 Mar 2025
Your story about the French politician suggesting that we return the Statue of Liberty recalls my favorite line from the enduring torch song 'Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry,' which was written by ...
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Harvey Fierstein says he was banned from Kennedy Center

Washington Blade 19 Mar 2025
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, TORCH SONG TRILOGY, HAIRSPRAY, SAFE SEX, CASA VALENTINA, SPOOKHOUSE, A CATERED AFFAIR, THE SISSY DUCKLING, BELLA BELLA and more.”.
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Why Todd Rundgren would — and does — rate Burt Bacharach over the Beatles

Azcentral 19 Mar 2025
Do you like the silly songs he did? ... I got into Bacharach when I was a teenager and you listen to the Dionne Warwick album over and over again and identify with all the torch songs ... I insisted that Kasim do it, for just the last line in the song.
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The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru review – British wartime tragedy told with potent empathy

The Observer 18 Mar 2025
This enthralling and shattering Chinese documentary benefits from superb material ... The film’s only real flaw is an occasional sentimentality; it could have done without the syrupy torch song over the roll call of the fallen ... Share. Reuse this content. .
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