The Only Ones were a heady perfume, a blend of champagne cognac and smouldering...
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What is it about Leonard Cohen that makes such an encounter possible? That replaces... -
Marianne Faithfull sings dark songs. Never-ending longing, not happy endings; courage and endurance, not... -
‘Wild Horses’ echoes both the lyric poetry of courtly love and the confessional poetry... -
When a love story ends, it’s the one who leaves who assumes the right... -
In this vision of the couple as curving parallels, is the man simply being... -
Passion devours. It is possessive, excessive, exclusive, unique. Out-of-time, out-of-the-world, it is ecstatic delirium,... -
‘We are always tempted to simplify our emotional lives in order to diminish the... -
‘Milk’ is a dark siren song. Sure of the allure of her emptiness, the... -
‘Short Letter, Long Farewell’, the title of a 1972 novel by Peter Handke, could... -
All Alexander McQueen’s shows are about the staging of aesthetic emotion, the mise-en-scène of... -
Each time I listen to the quintet’s albums, I am struck by their freshness,... -
Language aims at transparency. Sexuality defies transparency. Joe, in speaking of her sexuality, is,... -
In Jim’s poetry a mythical dimension often attaches itself to words, like phosphorus to... -
In the sidereal realm where she broke down in tears, what angel was there... -
Trusting only in his artistry, faithful to no Muse but his own, in each... -
Marianne Faithfull found her voice when she returned from the dead. A voice that... -
My voice has developed, becoming more voluminous and gaining more colours... -
Beyond the way Helen Merrill sings behind the beat (with a lag as it... -
Richard Butler’s voice is the closest I know to that of a tenor sax,... -
From her heart, from her locus of spirituality, Cassandra Wilson brings forth a voice... -
She's got a voice of unmistakable timbre, and however acrobatic, it’s mission is always... -
Attentiveness, vigilance, the holiness of the spirit; lucidity, courage, the responsibility of risk: All... -
Sparkling with intelligence, stylish and emotionally articulate, 'Mara, Marietta' elevates the love story to... -
Ravishing in its lushness, luminously moody or darkly evocative, many a Cure song has... -
Jorge Luis Borges’ poetic genius remains, in my view, insufficiently recognized… -
Why do fashion models seem to have a particular affinity with dogs? Indeed, check... -
Every woman articulates the feminine in the way she dresses (and undresses) her body.... -
Her method as an actress is to break down and regenerate herself; in doing... -
The actor’s art as demonic and erotic: this vision will inform my reflections on...