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Jimmy Webb: Pizza on the Park, London ***

Keith Cameron, Guardian, The, 28 October 1999

WHEN THE Boo Radleys wrote a song called 'Jimmy Webb is God' they presumably weren't gripped by a vision of the Lord playing a gig in an upmarket pizza restaurant. But however incongruous it may seem for one of the most successful composers of the pop era to be ensconced on the piano club circuit, the fact remains that Webb's legend is founded chiefly on other people's versions of some 30-year-old songs.

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