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Reflections on love, life and 'the wife' abound as horns parp Ronson-ly. But only Sixties cover 'I'm Alive' soars.
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They include brassy belters of the style that Mark Ronson has brought back into fashion, ugly stabs at funk and a cover of Bruce Springsteen's boxing classic, The Hitter, that is more Joe the Plumber than Joe Calzaghe. The ballads, however, offer richer pickings.
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MojoIt's at once plush and anodyne, both insatiable and confined. [Dec 2008, p.100]
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UncutThis is a "Talk Of the Town" of the mind, and he is clearly in his elemnt. [Dec 2008, p.100
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Q MagazineThis is an unusually sentimental record, co-written by the man himself, in which many songs bravely cast him as the old man he is. [Jan 2009, p.118]