Boyz II Men: Brixton Academy, London ****
Caroline Sullivan, Guardian Unlimited, 29 January 2012
"I'VE NEVER HAD to say this to a crowd before," says Shawn Stockman, the tenor who puts a great deal of the quivering oomph into Boyz II Men. "But you're too loud. We can't hear the monitors."
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