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KATHRYN FLETT'S My TV week: Stricken Celine's agony... in close-up

UK writer Kathryn Flett reviews I Am Celine Dion, a documentary about the 'Queen of Power Ballads' which includes intimate footage that highlights the horror of Dion's Stiff Person Syndrome illness.

First things first: the 56-year-old French-Canadian ‘Queen of Power Ballads’ has shifted 250 million records, had the highest-grossing Las Vegas residency in history, was the world’s top-selling artist of the 1990s, has won five Grammys and been awarded the French Legion d’Honneur... etc, etc. This was largely because the cast are so enthused it’s impossible not to start rooting for, say, Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate, the underdog band whose young lead drummer, Kerr McQuillan, is a shoo-in for the title of ‘Piping’s First Pin-Up’. Inevitably, by the time 20-year-old piper Trooper Ryan Smart of the Royal Tank Regiment entered a competition and smashed it in all three categories (his rendition of The Sheepwife was particularly fine), I definitely felt myself falling unexpectedly in, well... let’s say like... with the world of pipes.

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