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by vh translation by Astrid Nolde-Gallasch With piano, charme and guitar Pop. Chris de Burgh entertains the Kulturpalast in Dresden with a solo concert. It is frustrating. This man sings "Lady In Red", probably one of the most famous hymns about the beauty of your lover. But instead of keeping us high on cloud nine with similarly beautiful or tear-jerking songs, he performs a sequel of his own classic that puts up back into reality in a rough and brutal way. "Five Past Dreams" is the title of the track. The lady remains lovely, okay. But around three o'clock the man is still dancing on the party, where all others have long since gone home. De Burgh gives them only "30 seconds" maximum for the happening afterwards. After all they are married. Well, this is probably the revolt of the Irishman against being pegged as an "easy soft singer", which has happened too often. On Thursday night in the Kulturpalast in Dresden, de Burgh proved how lopsided that is: For almost three hours he entertained the nearly sold out hall, armed only with piano or guitar and an impressive, but retentive light show. But provided with a voice which is always full and can reach heights of which many schlager- or pop weirdos can only dream. "Road To Freedom" is the name of his new record, which unites as always two of de Burgh favourite themes: Love in all facets and warlike conflicts with all their consequences. Again a father says good-bye to his son who goes off to war, a child sings against the perpetual quarrels of his parents. However, most of the new songs sound rather thin or simple in the piano or guitar version. No wonder that the Kulturpalast is only put into good humour when Chris de Burgh gets out his old hits like "Don't Pay The Ferryman" or "Revolution". Enthusiastically they follow his anecdotes, his allusions to the rainy summer in Germany. But even after thirty years in the pop business the born Argentinian appears naturally. And after three hours, including some Beatles medleys the audience got the impression that the singer didn't want to go home either. |
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