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John Legend review – a somewhat bloodless performance from a wonderful singer

Despite some beautiful songs, this anniversary show drags and it seems as though the mature singer no longer feels the words he wrote in his 20s

Still, his appearance is appropriately arresting, strolling on stage in the sort of dazzling white suit that looked so fine on Marvin Gaye and Al Green. In his 20s when Get Lifted was released, he’s now 46: a middle-aged star playing the songs of a hungry – and horny – young musician; a husband and father singing of infidelity and reconciliation. Legend is a former management consultant – as he mentioned during one of the interminable “my musical journey” talky bits – and one suspects that somewhere backstage is a PowerPoint plotting every priapic strut and yelp.

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