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Henley 2024: In Distant Privacy
Jul 5, 2024HTBS
5 June 2024
By Tim Koch
Tim Koch spent Henley Thursday at the start.
In the 1977 anthology, My Oxford, writer, publisher and politician, Nigel Nicolson, wrote on his time competing at Henley Royal Regatta with his college crew in the late 1930s:
For those few days we lived in dread of the next race, discussing tactics, grooming the boat, eating enormously, sleeping long – and then the last terrified backward glance down the course before the race began in distant privacy to end… minutes later between banks of parasols and to tumultuous acclaim.
While Nicolson would recognise Henley ninety years on, nowadays few, if any, parasols are unfurled at the finish and the start is certainly a lot less private than it was in his time with commercial concessions increasingly creeping along the riverbank. However, compared to the finish 2,112 metres upriver, the start is still relatively peaceful.
The week’s schedule is here, today’s timetable is here, the results here and the regatta’s YouTube Channel has both live and recorded coverage.
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Portfolio- Grace Jones (Island 1977)
So here it is – the album which I will save above all others from the theoretical burning building (at least I hope it’s theoretical- I don’t want to actually have to make the choice). This is the CD I play probably more than any other and have done really since its release back in 1977. It was not a big seller yet has remained consistently available. It is the ultimate cult album from one of the ultimate cult artists. It did establish Grace as a hit artist in a number of markets gaining a Top 30 placing in Australia (27), Sweden (22), Italy (9) and The Netherlands (8).
Grace Jones was born in Jamaica and had a very strict upbringing. Things got tougher for her when her parents migrated to America, aiming to settle there before bringing the family over so Grace and her siblings were brought up for a time by very devout church-going relatives. Grace was always going to rebel. She eventually joined her parents in Syracuse and the awkward tall teenage girl drifted into acting and then modelling. It became clear to Grace that if she wanted to make it as a model she would have to get away from the USA as her brand of exoticism was too much for the conservative model agencies. She moved