Gladys Knight: All Our Love (MCA)
Jack Barron, NME, 27 February 1988
SINCE WINNING the Ted Mack Amateur Hour TV show at the age of eight and picking up $2000 for her rendition of Nat 'King' Cole's 'Too Young', Gladys Knight never seems to have moved further than the spotty secrets of adolescence, which is quite sad in a way.
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