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Frank Sinatra: London Arena

Barney Hoskyns, The Times, July 1990

VOGUE once said of Frank Sinatra that "the Voice is leading cool moderns back to emotion". Looking around at the well-heeled sentimentalists and legend-seekers at the London Arena it was hard to spot any moderns at all. We could as easily have been about to witness a heavyweight boxing contest as a performance by the greatest pop singer of the 20th century.

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