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Alexander O'Neal: Wembley Arena, London

Mark Cooper, The Guardian, May 1988

BANK HOLIDAY weekends used to be taken up with rock and roll frolics. These days soul music has a better grasp of good times and Alexander O'Neal understands better than most how to transform the intimacies of pain and pleasure into a communal joy ride.

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