GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
A night that puts a spring in your step
MIK SABIERS sees the former Eurythmics front man’s set bring the house down prompting a euphoric response from the audience
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ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Meltdown Festival
Eurythmics Songbook
Royal Festival Hall
★★★★
CURATING Meltdown as a celebration of song and songwriters, Chic legend Nile Rodgers tasked David A Stewart of Eurythmics with pulling together not just an all star band but a selection of great singers to perform the synthpop duo’s many hits.
Featuring Emilie Sande, Iris Gold, Beverley Knight, Folami and Kimberly Davis from Chic, and more on stage, Stewart ably met that call.
With a canon second to none — Eurythmics sold some 75 million records — track after track is greeted with not just a warm welcome but like an old, revitalised friend.
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