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Alexander O'Neal: All True Man (Tabu/Epic)

James Hunter, Rolling Stone, 4 April 1991

SINGER ALEXANDER O'Neal has been an adult-soul champ since he and his producers, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, released Alexander O'Neal in 1985. That debut paired a side of elegantly hip neo-R&B with a side of the sort of rock-soul that Prince invented and that Jam and Lewis shaped into a cannier pop form.

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