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US mayors seek to bypass Trump with direct role at UN climate talks by Cities | The Guardian

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May 22, 2026 - Big Orange Sun by Richard Orange

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Plans for the company’s vast new ‘gathering place’ have been shelved after a backlash. But Apple is growing bolder in its designs on public space

In the pictures, it looks lovely. Young urbanites mingle around cafe tables outside a glass facade running almost the whole width of a park, topped off with a sliver of roof that tapers at the edges like the lid of a MacBook Air computer.

Which modern capital would not scream to have this Foster + Partners-designed Apple store in pride of place in its city centre?

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Zuider Zee - Listen To The Words (1975)

Another Memphis power pop band? Was it something in the water?  Actually they were originally from Louisiana, and Richard Orange does a mean imitation of McCartney shredding his vocals

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Zuider Zee "Listen to the Words" Zuider Zee, 1975 Here's just a quick synopsis of how twisty the process of discovering music can sometimes be. Last weekend, I had a brief exchange with Thea (not this Thea, that Thea) on Facebook when she posted a list of her five favorite "Hot Love Summer" songs for Norwegian Elle. On it, she included Roy Orbison's version of "I Drove All Night". Fair enough, I thought. Orbison's version was a bigger hit in Europe than it was in the US, but it will always be Cyndi Lauper's song to me. As I went off to research the song's history a little bit, I found that Orbison's version was recorded in 1987, two years before it was a hit for Cyndi Lauper. The only reason it even landed in Lauper's lap was because Orbison didn't end up releasing it on his Mystery Girl album. So then I, for whatever reason, remembered Lauper's single from the movie Vibes, "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)". It's honestly one of her best '80s singles, and it's a huge injustice that it never even cracked the Top 40 when it was released in 1988. It was then that I noticed the song's writer was someone named Richard Orange. That's a cool name, I thought. What else has he done? Well, 13 years before Cyndi Lauper recorded "Hole in My Heart," Richard Orange's band Zuider Zee released their one and only album—and what an album it turned out to be. A lot of my reading about it was full of comparisons to Paul McCartney when speaking of the vocals, and that's no lie. Orange is a dead ringer at times. But the music of Zuider Zee, who called Memphis home, is a seamless blend of many different things. I'd have to think that, whether they knew each other or not, there's a little bit of Big Star appreciation taking place. At the same time, there are some pretty elaborate musical interludes and some synthesizers that, especially in 1975, come as a real surprise when they appear. So was Zuider Zee the other band in Memphis? Did people even know who they were? These are questions I don't have answers to. Orange seems to be pretty active online, so maybe he'll Google this entry some day and share more information. Until such a time, I'll just have to dream up my own history for Zuider Zee and their one magnificent album. —Paul

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New Musical Discoveries 32 - Richard Orange and The Eggmen "Beatlesque"

I've been asked why I refer to Beatles type tunes as beatlesque. It probably stems to a large part from this song by Richard Orange called appropriately enough Beatlesque. I usually refer to tunes that are inspired by the later Beatles era as such. Anyway, please check this classic out and tell me if it recalls The Beatles for you. Find it here or with others here God I Love This Music!