John Legend and the Roots – review

Hammersmith Apollo, London In the middle of the first tuition-fees protest in London, Sky News's wretched Kay Burley found herself improbably talking about drum'n'bass, or as she insisted on referring to it, "the drum and the bass". An enterprising soul had brought a soundsystem along to the riot and was playing instrumental dance music: here, you could argue, was proof that the era of the old-fashioned protest song was long gone. It's a state of affairs mirrored in American r'n'b: in the late 6...

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