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The Clark Sisters: Dominion Theatre, London

Barney Hoskyns, The Guardian, 3 September 1984

GUIDING GOSPEL music into the Eighties has not been without its hazards for Detroit's Five Clark Sisters. When last year their gorgeous 'You Brought The Sunshine' was a sizeable hit on American dance floors, the gospel community fretted about the song's "up tempo beat" and accused them of trying to seduce the ears of sinners.

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