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  Jackie Dennis, kilt-wearing 1950s Scots pop star who had a hit aged 15 with La Dee Dah – obituary

  Jackie Dennis, who has died aged 77, was a Leith-born apprentice plumber who was catapulted to fame aged 15, when his debut single La Dee Dah reached No 4 in the charts, briefly trumping Elvis Presley’s You Ain’t Nothin’ But a Hound Dog. Later described as “Scotland’s first pop star” and “Britain’s first pop export”, in October 1958 he appeared on The Perry Como Show in the US, introduced as “Britain’s Ricky Nelson”, and proudly performed La Dee Dah and other songs in a kilt. By the mid-1960s, h

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  For the Good Times by David Keenan – review

  A Belfast mural dedicated to IRA men who died during the Troubles. Styled as a fanzine writer’s attempt to put together an oral history of a cult 80s rock band, David Keenan’s excellent 2017 debut This Is Memorial Device came over like an unadvertised homage to Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives, replacing avant garde Latin American poets with the post-punk scene in suburban Scotland. For the Good Times is narrated by a jailed republican foot soldier, Sammy, who recalls doing the IRA’s dir

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  Wildfire smoke fills U.S., Canadian skies as officials ponder options

  Crooner Perry Como once sang "the bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle," but this week the city registered its worse air quality of the past two decades. "There's a smoke season, and it's probably going to be more frequent and longer than it has been in previous years," said Environment and Climate Change Canada meteorologist Armel Castellan. Climate change is exacerbating wildfires through higher temperatures coupled with a weakening jet stream that allow for longer dry spells, he sai

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  Vic Damone dead: Legendary pop singer dies aged 89

  Pop singer Vic Damone has died at the age of 89. The musician recorded over 2,500 songs and rose post-World War II alongside Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Perry Como and Dean Martin. At 14 he landed his first big break while working at the Paramonut Theatre in New York City, singing for Como in an elevator.

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  S = k. log W is carved on whose tombstone? The Weekend quiz

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