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An interview with Tony Bennett

Maureen Paton, You, 10 December 2006

I'VE LEFT MY heart in a London taxi that dropped Tony Bennett off at the Dorchester Hotel. The man who has made his 1962 hit 'I Left My Heart In San Francisco' his signature song, who has won 13 Grammy awards and who has released more than 100 albums over a six-decade career is in town to promote his album of duets, performed with everyone from Sting, Paul McCartney and Bono to Elton John, Celine Dion and Elvis Costello. And who wouldn't want to sing and swing with such a stylish crooner?

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