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Tuneful power ballads

Pieter | Johannesburg | 07/10/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The UK singer Tony Christie first made the charts in 1971. With his powerful voice and choice of good tunes, he falls into the Tom Jones/Engelbert Humperdinck category of power balladeer.



If not quite country, his early songs all had an American Western flavour, like the dramatic ballad Las Vegas, the tragic story song I Did What I Did For Maria and the flowing Is This The Way To Amarillo which was a UK hit again in 2005.



His minor hits from the 1970s like Avenues And Alleyways are still quite enjoyable too. In 1978 Christie returned with the beautiful ballad On This Night Of A Thousand Stars from the original studio soundtrack to Evita. The sequence of hits is not strictly chronological, but they do fit into a pattern of the 1970s stuff first and the very latest music last.



This collection also contains his more than adequate interpretations of classic songs from that era such as Solitaire, Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast, Drift Away, Feelings, I'm Not In Love and Love Hurts.



If you like dramatic and tuneful power ballads, you'll find much to enjoy in the work of Tony Christie. His tuneful songs have stood the test of time surprisingly well.



Definitive Collection"