Time for a reappraisal of the king of the casino show
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- Lionel Richie at Pinkpop 2016
- © Bart Notermans
“Hello!” It is the very first word Lionel Richie beneath his mustache welgetrimde roll out late on the main stage at Pinkpop, Landgraaf is located directly at the feet of the king casino show. Even the biggest hater involves the shameless and lovely charts. Time for a reappraisal?
THE CONCERT:
Lionel Richie, Pinkpop main stage, Sunday, June 12, 2016
THE ACT:
course, Lionel Richie has etched a giant ditch hits in the collective memory, five Grammys, there are in his closet, but found we’m not a little mistake? The epitome of camp, even? A long time though, and there he gave himself up without problems on: for years he went through the casinos of Las Vegas. In the Netherlands he flew especially to appear at Symphonica in Rosso, and the first bit to push Domino Day (classic television, incidentally).
When he suddenly headlining at Glastonbury last year took office and triumphed something changed in the perception of Richie. That same summer he also did at the North Sea Jazz, his first ever festival show in the Netherlands. Meanwhile, the concept of ‘guilty pleasure’ obsolete: good songs are good songs, and as Robbie Williams may close Pinkpop with hits that others have written, why Lionel would then deserve no place in Landgraaf with a huge ditch on own hits? Sexy R & amp; B slow jams the Commodores flamboyant piano ballads and rammers funk tracks, with a mildly pretty slick session musicians band he plays them tonight piece by piece. Who ‘Easy’ can it stop so early in the set, and there are still over? Lionel Richie, so. He shows the number standstill here, and see the huge field that already hangs from the first beat to his lips. Over the years it seems his face now a rougher clay modeled, but the enthusiasm and amazement, almost childlike, ‘Wow, what I did all those years in Las Vegas? What are you a wonderful view. “
THE NUMBER:
No B-side track or album is in the setlist, Richie continues to serve merely hits. He shares them out like candy, which we for a munch on until we all turn into purring sugar dolls. And then? Then flips’ ie four of his biggest hits there in one block from: Dancing on the Ceiling, “Hello” and the closing song ‘All Night Long’, but before that … yes, “We Are The World” written “with my good friend Michael Jackson ‘. Think you before the night is still: “I do not leave me by wrapping that dragon of a song is so dated ‘, has now even the biggest hater thawed so much that we all fall into each other’s arms as one. If gehaaidste but likeable car salesman Richie has brought us inside today, and before we know it we’re satisfied with an Opel Astra home. Yes, Lionel, yes! We are ready to make the world a better place! Tell us what to do!
THE TIME:
But Lionel is not alone, he sees quickly. “Hey, Lionel is on the front row! Man, I wish I had my hair like you ‘Damn, there’s a lookalike, and he has quite his best:. A curl wig, thin mustache and a smile from ear to ear. The screen director up there once a couple, because no Pinkpop act has listed so many imitators in the field as Richie.
WHAT NEXT noticed:
In “Endless Love” Lionel swears that he would take the stage normally Diana Ross, with whom he wrote the song . “Unfortunately, she could not be in today, but fortunately I stand in the audience here 71,000 Diana Rosses. You do Diana, I do myself, okay? “
THE PUBLIC:
Well, 71,000 Diana Rosses are watching with beaming eyes. A cheerful woman is waving middle age with a sign: “ Lionel, I’ve loved you since I was 8 .” But it’s not just her type that melts before his face. The wide men in Rammstein-shirt, which initially only look cynical, hooks soon. And then there are the kids who said the name Lionel Richie vaguely, and now find out how many numbers they actually can not sing along with him.
THE VERDICT:
course, the visuals are ridiculously cheap and real show elements Richie had a disappointment with him. But with so many songs that slide inside so delicious that does not matter right? Now he had to tolerate Macca still above him, but with this show the king of the casino had also not hesitate to close the main stage. Lionel Richie was not credible, then this is the domino stone that made him credible again in the Netherlands. There will be at least dozens of people walking around at Pinkpop conceived in this repertoire. And when we crawl into our tents tonight, there doubtless come again with ten to twenty.
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