Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, April 1922 - June 2009
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'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free'
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June
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- Red Lines
- No Redress As Living Standards Fall for Those Draw...
- Degrees of Deprivation
- Starving English Children
- We'd Better Do Something, Quick.
- Delusionist
- Gone
- Signing On
- The Cost of Carrying Labour's Luggage
- Brown's Axis
- Pensions'r'Not Us
- Twinset and Pearls
- Berlusconi and the Women
- A Short Term Speaker is No Use for a Functional Pa...
- The Red and the Black
- Ireland Needs the Protocols and the Commitments Sp...
- Who Is In Charge?
- Brown Can Take His Ball and Go Home
- Looking Like 20th Century Italy
- The Damage is Often Unexpected and Extensive from ...
- False Dawns and New Labour
- Who Could It Be?
- But the moon is low and I can't say "No"
- The Wages of New Labour
- Questions to Ministers in the Lords
- Staying Out of Uniform
- Knowing Enough and Owning Enough
- The End of the Affair
- Don't Read Poetry, It's Bad for Prose
- Compare and Contrast
- What Am I Bid?
- London Will Back Boris in Taking Out the Militant ...
- No Vision
- Dress Codes
- Labour's Real Cause for Shame
- Brown Will Be Kept On
- So Who Would You Like As Our Prime Minister?
- It Cannot Have Been Easy for the Prince of Wales
- Inequality and Its Growth Under New Labour
- Stop it Now
- A Vote of Confidence
- Is There Anybody Out There?
- Fog in Channel Continent Isolated
- Brown 'Keeps Buggering On'
- Not Made in Our Image and Likeness
- Will Bunnies Go to France?
- Who Governs England?
- Well, He Would Say That, Wouldn't He.
- Is It the Wimmin Who Will Bring Brown Down?
- Expenses Scandals Reveal the Scandalous State of U...
- Taking Back the Bank
- Looks Like Carelessness
- Jonah Messes Up 65th D Day Commemoration Ceremonies
- Russian Roulette
- Send Prince Andrew. He Has Fought for Our Country
- King of Italy Celebrates the Values of the Italian...
- Even Labour Party Members Must Vote Against Brown
- Are You Frightened Yet?
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Fallen Angels
- David Cameron (for risking the disorderly dissolution of the Euro)
- Giorgio Napolitano (for stance on Budapest 1956: Prague 1968: Italy 2013)
- Mervyn King (for bailing-out Northern Rock)
- Nicholas Kaldor (for inventing VAT)
2 comments:
Methinks his passing will not be noticed as a result of someone else's Elvis style getaway.
Saw him many many years ago. Wonderful. Bless him
wv : untie - he untied his mortal strings
It is enough (being strictly selfish) that I heard him Elby, though I am glad that you did too. There will not be a musician for an age to match him.
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