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Bonnie Raitt: Apollo, Manchester

Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 21 June 2003

IF SHE HADN'T SOLD MILLIONS of country-blues-rock records and won a stetson-full of Grammies, Bonnie Raitt could have had a career peddling the secrets of timeless, youthful joie de vivre . At 53, she has the slender figure of a 19-year-old cheerleader, and her famous red hair still tumbles like a wall of flame.

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