Gallery: Recalling lives lost in 2020
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English actress Honor Blackman poses for photographers during a break from the filming in London. Blackman, 94, the potent British actress who took James Bond’s breath away as Pussy Galore in “Goldfinger” and who starred as the leather-clad, judo-flipping Cathy Gale in “The Avengers,” died April 5. (AP Photo/Leonard Brown, File) Show MoreShow Less
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Each Sunday, during these cherished visits at Anne s home in north London, they talked, about the emotional isolation of losing a loved one during a global pandemic and the practicalities of widowhood.
Anne s second husband John Bird died just before Christmas last year, a week before their 40th wedding anniversary. Barely two months after John died I was living in a world he wouldn t have recognised. I lost my husband, whom I adored, and five weeks later – minutes really – I was locked up in the pandemic. I d never lived alone in my life, says Anne.
Then, just six weeks after John s death, the husband of her youngest daughter, Catherine, died of pneumonia after falling ill in early December.
The best and worst albums of 2020 From Katy Perry’s complete fizzer to Kylie Minogue’s incredible release, here are the standout albums of 2020 and the ones that didn’t make the grade.
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Subscriber only It was the year we turned to music, but what were the best albums 2020 gave us? National music writer Cameron Adams picks out some of the finest, and a few of the duds.
1. THE AVALANCHES - WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU 2020s best album is also peak 2020. Melbourne duo The Avalanches created this third album in lockdown - funded by JobKeeper - while working remotely with musicians around the world. And it delivered the deeply immersive soul-hug and long-overdue hit of joy we d all earned. As expertly curated as an art house movie, you ll get Jamie xx speeding up a beat or Johnny Marr s guitar fingerprints and the most glorious cast of vocalists. It s melancholy but still euphoric, with fewer samp
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