Barry Manilow: Opium of the Missus
Barney Hoskyns, Marxism Today, April 1984
IF BARRY Manilows career is on the wane, youd never have guessed it from last summers grandiose Concert At Blenheim Palace, when 40,000-odd pilgrims, preponderantly female (though including Culture Clubs Boy George), journeyed from all corners of the country to hear the bashful 37-year-old guide them through another nostalgic round trip of "The Old Songs".
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