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Olivia Newton-John live

3:14pm Tuesday 26th March 2013

DESPITE it having been a full 35 years since her last tour of the UK, singer Olivia Newton-John's fans proved they have remained hopelessly devoted to her when she took to the stage at Manchester's Apollo theatre.

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Sounds write: Kylie Minogue

4:14pm Tuesday 10th April 2012

On the many previous occasions Miss Kylie Minogue has performed concerts in Manchester, it's invariably been on a large scale, playing to her adoring masses at the 15,000 capacity Arena, often for up to a six night residency.

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Sounds write: Stevie Nicks

11:17am Wednesday 10th August 2011

Singer-songwriter Stevie Nick’s place has long been assured in the history book of rock n’ roll, courtesy of her starring role in the group Fleetwood Mac.

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Sounds write: Paul McCartney

2:34pm Tuesday 4th January 2011

Seeing one of The Beatles ‘live’ has long been a big box, if not the biggest, for music fans the world over to tick off on their wish list.

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Sounds write: The Duke and the King

5:40pm Thursday 21st October 2010

TAKING their name from the two grifters in Mark Twain’s ‘The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn’, The Duke & The King are one of those truly special bands, liberally sprinkled with magic dust, that come along just once in a while.

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Sounds Write - Sting

2:16pm Friday 27th August 2010

THERE is a popular trend amongst big name artists/groups during the advances stages of their careers to re-visit their own best known songs and re-work and re-present the material to their fans in a whole new light. This usually involves the music being given either a rockier edge, being jazzed up or, stripped back and pared down in an acoustic setting.

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Sounds Write - Harper Simon

4:33pm Tuesday 3rd August 2010

TRYING to make it on your own merits in the music business when you’re the child of a hugely famous singer is far from easy.

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SOUNDS WRITE - Crowded House

9:21am Tuesday 8th June 2010

When Crowded House split up in 1996, bidding a fond farewell to their fans with a memorable concert on the footsteps of Sydney Opera House before an estimated crowd of 150,000, they bowed out at the very height of their success after a run of hit albums and singles across the globe.

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Sounds write - Sade

9:56am Tuesday 23rd March 2010

IT is fair to say that Sade Amu - better known to me, you and a few million others as simply Sade - does not exactly like to rush herself when it comes to matters of her career.

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Sounds Write - Rod Stewart's Soulbook

5:09pm Wednesday 16th December 2009

IT is more than a little ironic that one of this country’s finest rock singers, Mr Rod Stewart, has enjoyed the greatest commercial success of his long career courtesy of a series of the most un-rock n’ roll of albums.

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Sounds Write - Beyonce in Liverpool

9:29am Thursday 3rd December 2009

FEW would dispute that right now, Beyonce Knowles is the biggest and, most successful female artist in music and the three awards she scooped most recently at the prestigious MTV Europe Music Awards just further cemented her position of strength.

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Sounds Write - Whitney Houston's I Look To You

9:27am Thursday 3rd December 2009

Back with her first new album in seven years after her time in the music wilderness as a consequence of her well-documented drug problems during her ill-fated marriage to bad boy Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston is now clearly out to make up lost ground with ‘I Look To You’(Arista) and attempt to reclaim her position as the ‘numero uno’ female singer.

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Sounds Write - Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter DVD

2:24pm Wednesday 11th November 2009

Four months after the Woodstock festival which was centred on peace, love, music and generally living out the hippy dream of the day, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones organised, what they hoped would be their own mini Woodstock of sorts – a free concert on 6th December 1969 at the Altamont speedway track close to San Francisco –to herald the climax of their US tour.

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Sounds Write - Fleetwood Mac in Manchester

2:25pm Wednesday 11th November 2009

WHEN Fleetwood Mac guitarist, singer and principal songwriter Lindsey Buckingham told the audience at Manchester’s M.E.N arena that, “This band have a complex and convoluted emotional history and it has not always been easy”, the comment was undoubtedly one of the understatements of the century.

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