Leona Lewis: the Hackney heroine has given Simon Cowell a lesson in taste

Collide singer talks epic spook-pop, riots and dodging Whitney style ballads with Sylvia PattersonLeona Lewis, despite her 9m album sales, three Grammy nominations and audience of 2 billion at the Olympic closing ceremony in Beijing in 2008 (with Jimmy Page on guitar and David Beckham on balls), still lives in Hackney. We meet four days after the London riots and the hitherto mild-mannered, some-might-say drearily namby-pamby, Leona Lewis has turned into a high-pitched version of walking-stick-w...

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