Randy Newman: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1995
HE IS TEN SECONDS into his second song, 'Yellow Man', when a bank of spots from Miss Saigon bathes him in a hepatic yellow light. "What facilities!" he exclaims mid-verse, looking up. "This is like the Pink Floyd show... a very crappy, shitty Pink Floyd show..."
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