Luther Vandross: The Night I Fell In Love
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 30 March 1985
[2004 note: It makes me wince to look back and see my jejune critical self dismissing The Other Side of the World as "tediously soupy". It is, of course, a peerless example of Vandross balladeering art – ambient soul music of the highest class. BH]
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