FT Life of a Song

By Financial Times

Each month FT music critics and contributors discuss the story of a song, from its origins and early recordings through cover versions good and bad. Formerly called FT Arts.

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March 06, 2015 The life of a song: Baltimore
David Cheal tells the story of Randy Newman’s ‘Baltimore’, through covers by Nina Simone, The Tamlins and Billy Mackenzie. Credits: CTI, Warner Bros., EMI
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March 06, 2015 Bureaucracy: friend or foe?
The anarchist and anthropologist David Graeber discusses both the stupidity and secret joys of bureaucracy with the FT's Martin Sandbu and Lucy Kellaway
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February 27, 2015 The life of a song: I’m a Believer
The Life of a Song: David Cheal follows the fortunes of Neil Diamond’s ‘I’m a Believer’, from The Monkees to Robert Wyatt to the movie 'Shrek'. Credits: Colgems, Virgin, Interscope, Sony Music
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February 20, 2015 The life of a song: When the Levee Breaks
From recordings by Memphis Minnie and Led Zeppelin to sampling by Dr Dre, Eminem and Massive Attack, David Cheal traces the various incarnations of ‘When the Levee Breaks’. Credits: Columbia, Atlantic, The Chronic Interscope
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February 13, 2015 The life of a song: Always On My Mind
In the first of a new series, David Cheal looks at the song covered by artists from Brenda Lee to Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson to the Pet Shop BoysCredits: Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, Sony BMG
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February 06, 2015 No wonder Europe is annoyed with Greece
Greek culture taught the rest of us how to live ‑ and it’s not time to write off that particular debt yet, says Peter Aspden
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January 30, 2015 Reel lives: Jan Dalley on falsity in film
As two recent biopics come under fire from those depicted, the FT’s arts editor ponders what compels movie-makers to embellish ‘true stories’
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7min
January 23, 2015 IP or not IP? Jan Dalley on the Luc Tuymans case
The Belgian artist has been found guilty of plagiarism. But intellectual property law is a poor fit with contemporary art's mash-ups, multiples and reworkings, says the FT's arts editor
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January 09, 2015 Florence and the machines: the British Library Sound Archive
Peter Aspden visits the basement treasure-house where recordings of Florence Nightingale, 1940s electronica and other rarities are stored alongside some equally exotic audio technology
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January 02, 2015 Keep it complex: Peter Aspden on art and identity
Politicians love to keep things simple, at least in their public pronouncements. Artists, by contrast, embrace complication, nuance and imagination – so who better to tackle slippery questions of national identity as the UK prepares for a general election?
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