Tony Christie: Now's the Time! - review

(Acid Jazz)Tony Christie considers this album to be "the real me", by which we infer that the Johnny Cash-style makeover he received on his credibility-enhancing last record, Made in Sheffield, was not the "real" him at all. Now's the Time! returns the 67-year-old crooner to his comfort zone of brassy lounge-pop and film soundtracks, and he sounds pleased to be there. And why not? His tenor, which forever hovers at the edge of quivering melodrama, was made for high-quality MOR like this. The be...

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