Ronan Parke: Ronan Parke – review

(Sony)Already billed as "Britain's Justin Bieber", 13-year-old Ronan Parke came second in Britain's Got Talent earlier this year. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that the vast bulk of his debut album comprises woefully predictable covers of recent hits, such as Cee Lo Green's already bowdlerised "Forget You" and the Coldplay-without-the-panache of "Fix You". Parke's voice is pleasant enough, but the choice of material is utterly bereft of imagination and it would be patronising to suggest that ...

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