At the centre of the book is a cat called Roger who, in a seaside cottage on a dark and windy night, has a story to tell: first to a man called Wiggy whose sister and her dog have mysteriously vanished, and then, by extension, to a widowed librarian called Alec who, for some baffling reason, has been given a recording of Roger and Wiggy's conversations.
After graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2006, Adele was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace the same year.
At 10, she was given a recording of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin".
Later he remembers being given a recording of the Brandenburg Concertos when he had his tonsils removed and attending a Toscanini rehearsal at La Scala.
In late January, officers arrived at the cable channel TV Rain and demanded to be given a recording of an interview Pavlensky had given them, saying they needed to examine it as part of a "psychological-linguistic expert analysis" that was being carried out as part of the case against him.
The four-and-a-half-hour-long show featured 35 songs spanning the group's career, and attendees were given a recording of the band's first concert at The Metro, Live at Cabaret Metro 10-5-88 10-5-88 10-5-88
And D'Angelo, whose sprawling, political, brilliant Black Messiah was surprise-released a year ago, was given a record of the year nomination for the swooning Really Love.
In 1961 George Blake, another ex-diplomat, was given a record 42-year prison sentence for spying for the Russians.
He was given a record of how his partner had behaved previously as well as some gossip — positive gossip in one round, negative in another.
PAGE A12 Lockheed Fined $13 Million Lockheed Martin, the world's largest military contractor, was given a record fine by the State Department for giving satellite information to China, officials said.
But the award for Worst Film of 1998 was reserved for an attempted satire on the movie industry, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn, starring Eric Idle, which was given a record five Razzies at the spoof ceremony in Santa Monica.
