There's no end of it here, a rich, extensive cornucopia of the old faves; the more corny all the better. Easy listening James Taylor currently. (You forgot this fellow was ever given birth by woman.) Took few secs to put the face & loose retro suit with the name. Newsboy the flatcap termed here—one shiny shy songster. You saw guys with mugs like that in the outer of football grounds down South a half century ago, puffing on a fag out the corner of their mouths. Strange for stars now, even little old twinklers. (Or perhaps not so little given the reported 100m sales.) Engelbert & Tom had toured recently on stopovers; the guy from the States too from childhood not long after Fred Astaire & Gene Kelley. (In his case a picture had never been seen before from that old radio era—Paul Anka possibly.) Not forgetting A. Christie's Mousetrap featuring on the placards at Raffles Hotel couple of years back. (The production had in fact wowed audiences not long before in London, it turned out. This was not a Sin’pore story alone; but, gee! they was prety closely aligned here, catering for the corp heads and the middle rung tootling along with them.) Donald probably gives these same acts a run at the club in Florida after the golf tournaments. One often heard complaints from the youngsters paying top dollar that the Stones and the others didn't turn it on like they remembered on their Hong Kong vinyl. Tuesday night at the Star Theatre James did something remarkable, the newspaper revealed. The song-list was not remarkable: Country Road, Carolina In My Mind and “the Carole King classic he made his own,” You've Got a Friend. (“Don't worry," he reassured fans who might be unfamiliar with the couple new items on the program, "they sound just like the old ones.") What was remarkable during the almost three hour concert was a twenty minute interval where the artist sat on the edge of the stage signing autographs, shaking hands and taking selfies with the fans. (The latter was put to excellent use here by the superbly remunerated politicians in meet-and-greets. On which subject a new Chinese app was currently challenging Instagram and Snapchat with its options for lightening skin tone and rounding eyes. “Our mission is to make the world more beautiful…Our wish is to build a beauty ecosystem.” Google Meitu.)
Singapore, 2011-25