Buffy Sainte-Marie – review

Purcell Room, LondonBuffy Sainte-Marie co-wrote Up Where We Belong, the Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warnes duet from the end of An Officer and a Gentleman, when Richard Gere appears in that blinding naval suit. She also wrote the protest song Universal Soldier, and once pulled out of a kids' TV show when she found they advertised GI Joe toys. How the legendary Cree singer reconciled her military movie smash with a lifetime of pacifism God only knows, but as she – now 71, wiry, effervescent – reminds...

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