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Louis Armstrong in 1953 | Photo: fotograf World-Telegram
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Musically, the album follows the well-known Franz Ferdinand style, but with a modern twist. | Photo: Fiona Torre
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Talk to each other. Not only the notes are important but also the words. | Photo: Alberto Bigoni (Unsplash)
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The typical sliding sound of a slide guitar is created by a piece of hollow tube called a slide, or bottleneck, which the guitarist wears on a finger of their left hand. I Photo: Paolo Piga
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Setting a realistic goal and writing down the steps that will lead to its completion is the first step towards looking back in a year's time with a feeling of a job well done. I Photo: Emma Simpson (Unsplash)
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So far so good, I still have hair, just a few grey hairs in my beard but I can't pretend to be young and unchained anymore. The time has come for the next phase of life: welcome to middle age. | Photo: Dušan Krejdl
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Brian Slade. | Photo: screenshot from the movie
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