Financial Times
The Financial Times, founded in the UK in 1888, is the primary English language daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. It is now available in five international editions.
18 articles
List of articles in the library
James Blunt: Strange Life Of An Army Dreamer
Interview by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times, 8 July 2005
James Blunt came to pop stardom the hard way, via Harrow, Sandhurst and the Household Cavalry. ...
Courtney Love: 'I've Lived A Really Weird Life'
Interview by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times, 15 December 2006
THERE ARE signs of clean living everywhere in Courtney Love's hotel suite. ...
Dizzee Rascal: 'I Was Just Being Cheeky'
Interview by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times, 9 June 2007
TOP OF the world, that's how Dizzee Rascal feels. Early sales of his new album Maths and English indicate a top-10 hit. "It's a couple ...
Gilbert O'Sullivan: "The equal of any songwriter"
Retrospective and Interview by John Lewis, Financial Times, 28 September 2007
WORLD-WEARY songs about death. Waggish wordplay. A scruffy urchin persona. When Morrissey performed Gilbert O'Sullivan's 1970 hit 'Nothing Rhymed' at a gig in Dublin last ...
50 Cent: Always The Lion In The Room
Interview by Ben Thompson, Financial Times, 8 February 2008
ON MEETING the rapper and business mogul 50 Cent, the first thing you notice is that he's a lot smaller than he looks onstage. In ...
Damon Albarn: Honest Jon's: Shellac shock
Report and Interview by John Lewis, Financial Times, 28 April 2008
Damon Albarn's label Honest Jon's has discovered the world on their doorstep in the form of the EMI Archive. ...
AC/DC: Heavy Metal's Eternal Schoolboys at the O2 Arena
Live Review by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times, 17 April 2009
We've got some old songs and some new songs for you," AC/DC's singer Brian Johnson growled, in an accurate but dispiriting précis of the AC/DC ...
David Bowie: Station to Station: The importance of David Bowie
Essay by Paul Morley, Financial Times, 3 September 2010
HOW MUCH DO you like David Bowie? You will have to like him a lot to want to spend more than £80 on a deluxe ...
A-ha: The Highs and Lows of being a-ha
Retrospective and Interview by Jenny Valentish, Financial Times, 18 March 2016
How many farewell tours can one band have? Magne Furuholmen talks about stardom, group therapy — and why his music is more than just fluff. ...
Live Review by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times, 23 January 2018
MARC RIBOT is best known for his work for other musicians. That's Ribot's off-centre, jagged guitar on Rain Dogs, Tom Waits's 1985 album, the start ...
Kraftwerk: Uwe Schütte: Kraftwerk – Future Music from Germany
Book Review by Paul Morley, Financial Times, 28 February 2020
The ghost Beatles: the group's mystery remains elusive in a methodical history of their career ...
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, Financial Times, 15 February 2022
AS INELEGANT acronyms go, NWOBHM was at least onomatopoeic: an approximation of metal's thudding, bludgeoning bass registers. Certainly the "New Wave Of British Heavy Metal", ...
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Financial Times, 18 September 2023
The reformed group played fan favourites to a vociferous crowd, but their luscious beats still sounded current ...
Young Fathers: Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Financial Times, 23 October 2023
Five stars for the visceral and thrilling Young Fathers. The Edinburgh-based trio seemed on the verge of spontaneous combustion at the Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith. ...
Ed Sheeran: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Financial Times, 20 November 2023
The singer played the whole of his sombre new album, Autumn Variations, then more uplifting greatest hits ...
Cigarettes After Sex: Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Financial Times, 27 November 2023
The band played their chronicles of doomed romanticism to a predominantly young female crowd at the Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith ...
Sleaford Mods: Alexandra Palace, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Financial Times, 4 December 2023
Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn have gone from being outsiders to headlining a large London venue ...
Dennis Bovell: The Jazz Café, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Financial Times, 8 January 2024
Dennis Bovell pays ground-shaking tribute to dub reggae pioneer King Tubby in London Performing at the Jazz Café, Bovell's fervent enthusiasm for the great sound ...
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