Florence Foster Jenkins: we may laugh, but to be this bad took talent

David Bowie was a fan of the ‘world’s worst singer’, but is the epithet a fair one? It was one of David Bowie’s favourite records. That may be as much of a recommendation as anyone needs, but Bowie’s fulsome appreciation of The Glory of the Human Voice, the deliciously ironic title for RCA’s release of Florence Foster Jenkins’s recordings, is itself a wonderful distillation of the Florence phenomenon: “She had and was blissfully unaware of, t...

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