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Ashford & Simpson: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Richard Williams, The Times, 22 May 1985

SINCE THE SONGS they wrote in the 1960s for Marvin Gave and Tammi Terrell put a patent on the genre, it was not surprising that when they turned to performing Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson should become the most convincing claimants to the title "sweethearts of soul".

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