To mark the appearance of Candi Staton, aged 83, at Glastonbury, there was plenty more to pick from than Nights on Broadway, Young Hearts Run Free and Suspicious Minds to represent this major favourite singer.
The same age as Tina Turner, and likewise achieving her biggest commercial success in the 1980's on something of a comeback trail, those successes didn't quite equal those of Tina's raunch but maybe she was actually a better singer.
I'm no fan of Glastonbury, which is more of an occasion than a musical event. Diana Ross was rubbish there but she was Diana Ross and that counts for a lot. Very few artists found themselves gifted with the quality of material that Berry Gordy put her way. So one is expecting Candi to be better than Diana was but she is 83 and the point is that she's Candi Staton, with a much under-rated back catalogue of passion, loss and hurt.
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