Dion: The King of the Noo Yawk Streets Comes Home
Barney Hoskyns, Sunday Correspondent, September 1989
WHEN DION DiMucci made his major comeback at New York's Radio City Music Hall two years ago, he was joined onstage by an all-star quartet of backing singers: Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Paul Simon, and Billy Joel.
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