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Michael Bolton: The One Thing (Columbia 474355 2)

Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 19 November 1993

THIS IS the album Meat Loaf would make if his taste ran to easy-listening pop rather than gothic rock. He and the astonishingly coiffed Bolton share a lust for the panoramic arrangement, the roared vocal that has been coaxed up from a blast furnace somewhere aft of the diaphragm.

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