Dido's

Albums I've had a percentage on have died a death and others, like Dido's, which sold 20m, I've had nothing.

Life in the recording studio with Led Zep, Bob Marley and many more 2011

In addition to sailors and witches, Purcell gave us one of the most sublime laments in opera: Dido's When I Am Laid in Earth.

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The quality is high throughout, which is presumably what you get if you assemble a crack team of co-writers, including Heart FM king Rick Nowels, author of Ronan Keating's Life Is a Rollercoaster, Dido's White Flag and Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is a Place on Earth.

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Now 60, Brown's enthusiasm for recording is undiminished, the zeal possibly a function of never landing the huge royalty pay-out that a more calculating – or luckier – operator might have secured for, say, his work on Dido's albums No Angel and Life for Rent.

Life in the recording studio with Led Zep, Bob Marley and many more 2011

It was hard to keep the tears back through Nimrod and Dido's Lament, which were, surely, written with the express purpose of plucking the strings of the heart like the strings of a harp, but that, too, is something that we Brits are extremely good at.

Christina Patterson: Just What, Exactly, is the Army for? Christina Patterson 2010

It was hard to keep the tears back through Nimrod and Dido's Lament, which were, surely, written with the express purpose of plucking the strings of the heart like the strings of a harp, but that, too, is something that we Brits are extremely good at.

Christina Patterson: Just What, Exactly, is the Army for? Christina Patterson 2010

Dido's Lament is audibly bleaker than Kylie's I Should Be So Lucky '– although neither are as sad as the doleful monotone of the vuvuzelas that blared out from Bloemfontein on Sunday.

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It was hard to keep the tears back through Nimrod and Dido's Lament, which were, surely, written with the express purpose of plucking the strings of the heart like the strings of a harp, but that, too, is something that we Brits are extremely good at.

Christina Patterson: Just What, Exactly, is the Army for? Christina Patterson 2010

Her two duets, with Giordani and with (I predict) future star Christin Marie-Hill, as Dido's sister Anna, were ideal demonstrations of Berlioz's penchant for grand-scale intimacy.

Troy to Remember Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Her two duets, with Giordani and with (I predict) future star Christin Marie-Hill, as Dido's sister Anna, were ideal demonstrations of Berlioz's penchant for grand-scale intimacy.

Archive 2008-05-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008