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1. Mr Loverman smooches in
Stockport Express, Friday 4 May 2007IF you go along to one of Lionel Ritchie's concert, don't expect to see Cristiano Ronaldo there.
2. Preview: Bryan Adams
Stockport Express, Friday 4 May 2007WITH his mix of bombastic stadium anthems and self-conscious blue collar schtick, Bryan Adams has spent a good 25 years cultivating his persona as Canada's answer to Bruce Springsteen.
3. Funeral For A Friend (Apollo)
Stockport Express, Thursday 17 May 2007MORBID by name, very much morbid by nature in the worldview of Welsh emo rockers Funeral ForA Friend.
4. Preview: Roy Harper
Stockport Express, Friday 4 May 2007EVERY decent folk revival produces a few lost gems and Roy Harper was certainly one who was ripe for rediscovering.
5. Preview: Roger Waters
Stockport Express, Friday 4 May 2007THE forces of charity can unite even the most warring factions but not always in the long term - Pink Floyd being a fine case in point.
6. INDIE: Manic Street Preachers - Apollo, Sunday
Stockport Express, Friday 25 May 2007ON PAPER, the Manic Street Preachers have always sounded like a wonderful, electrifying rock 'n' roll proposal: a Welsh working-class rock band who welded the bombast of Guns 'n' Roses with social politics, steely rebellion and a fierce sense of bookish intelligence.
7. Preview: Meatloaf
Stockport Express, Friday 4 May 2007BETTER to think of Meatloaf as less of a rock performer, and more of a major movie franchise in which each instalment gets bigger, more overwrought and expensive but ultimately it's better to stick to the original.
8. POP: Pet Shop Boys - Apollo, Monday
Stockport Express, Friday 25 May 2007IN NEED of some pop Midas touch? Of late the answer to any despairing pop artist's prayers has been the Pet Shop Boys.
9. Preview: Jan Akkerman
Stockport Express, Friday 4 May 2007THERE can't be many guitarists who can play for Ice-T one minute, then BB King the next but Jan Akkerman is a musician of rarefied talent.
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