Dionne Warwick – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonIn the 1960s, Dionne Warwick became the muse and conduit for more than 30 immaculate pop nuggets by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Now she is undertaking a world tour to mark a 50-year career that has seen her remain a pop-soul icon, while rarely rescaling such precipitous aesthetic heights.She launches the tour by compering this annual charity gala in aid of the Hunger Project, an event that demonstrates how showbiz schmaltz is as ingrained in her DNA as her interpretiv...

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