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Gladys Knight & the Pips: New Victoria, London

Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 8 May 1976

THE ATTENTION which goes into the fundamentals of Gladys Knight's sound, is the key to the tremendous success she's had on her current tour. Which gives her the freedom, unimpeded by the kind of disinterested and slack musicianship which some other stars are satisfied with, to pour everything she's got into a faultlessly superb, breathtaking performance — as she did at London's New Victoria last week.

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