Sade: America The Hard Way
Robert Sandall, Q, December 1988
Hers was the face that graced a thousand magazine covers, the sound that became a fashion accessory, the image that seemed to encapsulate effortless video-age success. Robert Sandall encounters a very different Sade on a 40-date US tour.
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