Sade
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Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, May 1986
EIGHT MILLION copies the first album sold — Diamond Life, sultry pop, Martini-ad jazz, not really the stuff of eight million copies. Some of those ...
Interview by James Hunter, L.A. Style, January 1993
On Love Deluxe, Sade eschews formula to arrive at the right fusion ...
Sade: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 11 August 1984
THE SOHO Brasserie nightly fêtes a love-in of the young, hip and would-be photographed who are busy even now recreating the good times myth of ...
Sade: Why Sade is bigger in the US than Adele
Profile by Sophie Heawood, The Guardian, 13 March 2012
BRITAIN MAY have all but forgotten her, but 80s popstar Sade is a huge star in the US since her 2010 comeback. So what's the ...
Live Review by Graham K. Smith, Record Mirror, 10 March 1984
A COUPLE of years back, in a dingy West London jazz-funk room, the seeds of this review were sown. The event was the debut appearance ...
Interview by Bill Holdship, Pulse!, December 1992
Cool, smooth & refreshing, Britain's sultry siren of song checks in with her first new album in four years, Love Deluxe. ...
Review by Lloyd Bradley, bbc.co.uk, 9 May 2011
The uniquely British band is rightly celebrated on this fine collection. ...
Graham K. Smith makes a dream date with... Sade
Interview by Graham K. Smith, Record Mirror, 12 May 1984
EVERY DREAMER'S favourite dreamgirl has arrived! Every fantasist's perfection personified, every hardy pop soul who ever believed in the beauty of simplicity has been amply ...
Sade: Stronger Than Pride (Epic) **½
Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 11 August 1988
LIKE WALLY Pipp, who took a day off from the Yankee lineup and was permanently replaced by Lou Gehrig, Sade has risked usurpation by more ...
Sade: Living in Black and White
Interview by Deanne Pearson, No. 1, 9 June 1984
Sade is a singer with a chequered past. Brought up partly in Nigeria and partly in Clacton, she had two fathers and about eight grandmothers, ...
Sade: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 3 December 1985
FOR ALMOST an hour, Sade Adu and her musicians reproduced the chic minimalism of their records with such detached precision and consistency that the songs ...
Sade: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 December 1985
Sade Seeks to One-Yup the Competition With Its Sultry Yet Sedate Approach ...
Sade: Diamond Life (Portrait); John Martyn: Sapphire (Island)
Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, May 1985
JEWELS 'N' JAZZ ...
Interview by Deanne Pearson, No. 1, 18 February 1984
SADE INSTRUCTS DEANNE PEARSON IN THE ART OF THE FEMME FATALE ...
Sade: Lovers Rock; Rachelle Ferrell: Individuality (Can I Be Me?); Spooks: S.I.O.S.O.S. Volume One
Review by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 13 December 2000
WHEN IT COMES to commercial black music, "high concept" makes the record industry very nervous. Motown initially told Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye that people ...
Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Red Bull Academy Magazine, 20 July 2015
Michael A. Gonzales reaches into his archives for an interview with the singer from 1992 ...
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 21 May 1986
Born 26 years ago in Clacton, Helen Folasade Adu spent a lot of her childhood watching Scooby Doo and Charlie's Angels, throwing stones at cars, ...
Sade: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 30 March 1993
THEY CAME, they saw, they conquered! Hot on the heels of the two million US sales for Love Deluxe, their latest album, UK group Sade ...
Habitual: Sade: The Best Of (Epic) ****
Review by Mark Cooper, Q, November 1994
When will Britain wake up to Sade? ...
Strangely Sad Sade… Sade: Lovers Rock (Epic)
Review by Rick McGrath, Culture Court, January 2001
IT'S BEEN eight long ones since Helen Folasade Adu had a new CD languorously slithering up the charts, but like Steely Dan and a host ...
Sade: International Centre, Harrogate
Live Review by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 4 December 1985
SADE ADU may have a most entrancing set of vocal chords and a face to match, but somehow this evening never really got off the ...
Profile and Interview by Lesley White, The Face, April 1984
Sophisticated jazz, Silk Cut and Jersey. That's Sade Adu. The girl can't help it. The torches have been lit. Profile Lesley White ...
Sade Emerges From Her Country Retreat
Interview by Robert Sandall, The Times, 31 January 2010
She's Britain's most successful female solo artist but has remained a glamorous enigma — until now. Sade emerges from her country retreat to tell how ...
Sade: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Times, 2 August 1984
SADE IS CURRENTLY the hottest new voice in town. Her Diamond Life album has been highly praised and her jazz diva's image, allied to a ...
Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 25 August 1984
FOR THE way she sang words and music, the way she interposed herself in the lyric, the way she could swing a line and stay ...
Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 15 December 1984
An unlikely star and a reluctant one, but SADE ADU is the most successful female artist of the year. The life and times of a ...
Interview by Mick Brown, Vanity Fair, April 1988
THERE IS NO finer art in pop music than that of knowing when to disappear. ...
Profile and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Rolling Stone, 23 May 1985
Sade's elegant look and cool sound have made her pop music's most stylish female star ...
Report and Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, December 1988
Hers was the face that graced a thousand magazine covers, the sound that became a fashion accessory, the image that seemed to encapsulate effortless video-age ...
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