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Mayte Garcia has the rare distinction of knowing Prince as both his wife, the mother of his two children and also as an employee. With her first book The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince, she takes us inside her relationship and history with the musician, from her first meeting at 16 years of age,
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You seldom see reviews of greatest hits packages as it’s almost an entirely pointless exercise describing the sequencing and collation of a well-known artists best known songs. And when it comes to Prince, let’s be honest – many of us are quite familiar with his formidable collection of hits. I own all of Prince’s official
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It’s been over a decade since the homegrown hit jukebox musical Dusty first graced our stages with a successful national tour starring Tamsin Carroll and Deni Hines. This new version, directed by Jason Langley, is an entertaining and kinetic return to the hit songs of Dusty Springfield. The musical charts only major points and themes in
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After the utterly shocking news of this week’s US election, there seemed only one viable solution – to shake it off and dance the night (and world) away. To that end, Euro-pop foursome The Vengaboys and a raft of ’90s dance acts had taken over Melbourne’s Festival Hall on Thursday, promising a night of beats
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As a fan of the original series, I’m pretty excited about Twin Peaks’ return to TV next year. As such, I was also eager to get my hands on the new novel, The Secret History of Twin Peaks, as an opportunity to immerse myself back in that world, and the characters and mysteries which are at
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Star Trek celebrated its 50th anniversary with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in a sound and vision spectacular under the stars at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Saturday night. The MSO was, as expected, as perfect as you could hope in their rendering of the soundtrack. Conducted by Sarah Hicks, the enormous orchestra (with many more than
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Over the years there has been much written about Prince; his highs, his lows and the story of how this diminutive Minneapolis-born artist played by his own rules, took on the music industry and won more often than he lost. Prince: Purple Reign is a new book by Mick Wall that promises to “open a door
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International circus troupe Cirque de la Symphonie tours the world performing with orchestras and is now on a three week tour of Australia. Friday might was the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s turn to join forces with the Cirque at Hamer Hall for what was a knock-out event. Aerial artists, acrobats, contortionists, jugglers and strongmen showed a precision and
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It might be time to dig out the old VHS tapes now that collectors are paying thousands of dollars for rare videos, with the market continuing to grow. UK site loveantinques.com recently published a list of the most expensive VHS tapes in the world and some of the prices are genuinely shocking. At the more reasonable end of the
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As the working week winds down and so too does the longest and least remarkable election campaign in memory – you owe it to yourself to crack a drink (or 10) and let your hair down to ring in the weekend. And if the terror of “moving forward” into the next term of government is just too
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