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[Deana@USA]

Caroling-
What an amazing experience! How I would love to hear Andrea live one day. I would probably require a whole box of tissue. Just listening to a cd, can make me tear up. His voice does something to me . Even my husband agrees, he is off the chart wonderful!

Ciao, Deana

[carolina1954]

He sounds wonderful on studio recordings, but live you seem to get that extra dimension, somehow.
I have been lucky to hear him sing without a microphone a few times, just ABsolutely brilliant.

[kaycarley]

Yes please do let Renate have those photos Caroline, your photos are wonderful.

[carolina1954]

thanks Kay.....

Didn't get as close with these as some of my others though.

[DueBaci]

This was March 2006 and there were about 250 people in the audience, was recorded in a very small studio, for a BBC programme about great songs from great movies, and I sat in row 2, about 20 feet away from Andrea, and of course the other singers, who were, to name a few, you might recognise: Shirley Bassey, Cyndi Lauper, Robin Gibb, Vittorio Grigolo.
Most of the others had to do 2 or 3 takes, for various technical reasons, but of course, Andrea managed to do it in only 1......such a shame, for us
He was walked on stage by Veronica, parked his backside on this rickety stool, (looked very unsafe !) and just sang......beautifully, and Carlo played the piano.
He then had to wait a minute or two, I heard him ask if it was allright, and it was, then Veronica came and collecte him again and he waved goodbye....

The BBC give free tickets to some recordings and I just submitted my request for 2 tickets (3 times...lol, to be sure), heard nothing byt the closing date and thought, oh well, never mind. Then I got a phone call, at work the Tuesday afternoon, would I like to go, well, would I, mmmm..... well, I may have to stay in and wash my hair.....
Would I go, what a silly question !
My daughter was originally going to go with me, as I am not very familiar with London, but at such short notice she couldn't make it, but she found a friend who is a big Shirey Bassey fan and we had a great night together.
I managed to get a couple of nice photos too, thinking about those, I wonder if I ever sent them to Renate, must check that.

Just checked it, and no, there's no record of it. I shall mail her and ask if she'd like them.

What a neat experience ! ... thanks for sharing... and YES Please do share those photos with Renate.

[Glory_94]

hi everyone! in these 18 days when I wasn't there (holiday in Hamburg, Bremen and Germany!) what's happened??? someone can make FOR ME a little resume??? thank you, or like they say in germany: danke!

[sunflower]

Hi Glory. How were you on holiday?

Resume? What concretly do you mean?