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

OVO Hydro, GlasgowDespite 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‘Get lifted” is Glaswegian slang for being taken into police custody. It seems unlikely, to say the least, that John Legend knew this when choosing Glasgow to open his Get Lifted 20th Anniversary world tour. 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. “Can I be sexy tonight?” he asks – the very definition of a rhetorical question – ahead of She Don’t Have to Know, a breezy ode to cheating.The tour is a celebration of his classic debut, an album that announced Legend as a soul man who could, it seemed, be spoken of in the same breath as giants of the genre. 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. Continue reading...

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