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Ne-Yo: Wembley Arena, London

David Sinclair, The Times, 16 February 2010

IF YOU wanted a Valentine’s Day show with all the trimmings, then Ne-Yo on Sunday night was your man. There was champagne and fireworks, bunches of red roses, a romantic encounter with a girl from the audience on a red heart-shaped couch and a repertoire of love songs in which another seduction was only ever a chorus away. The only hiccup came when the great lover man suffered a momentary attack of actual hiccups, for which, in a rare moment of humility, he apologised.

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