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Gladys Knight & the Pips: Wembley Conference Centre, London

Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 22 November 1980

IT MUST be the most pertinent observation that Gladys Knight and the Pips have made on record for a long time: "Everybody wants to be bourgie bourgie (super bourgeoisie)." The remark supplies probably the sharpest criticism of what this vocal group has become.

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