Pages 10 & 11

So, a bit of a tenuous link for International Women’s Day, but here’s couple of pages from my photo book of concert tickets & programmes featuring a few women who found international fame.
All quite amazing in their own way.

Sade was the queen of ‘80s CD sales with her debut album, and this performance was promoting her second album. Her voice was just as on the discs! Strange how the memory can play tricks – if I hadn’t kept the ticket stub I would have been sure I saw her at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, but as you can see here it was the Edinburgh Playhouse.

Whitney Houston is simply one of my best concert memories. She performed ‘in the round’ and one of the most striking memories of this was the quality of the sound. The Big Red Shed, as the SECC was then referred to, was often criticised for poor acoustics, but whoever was engineering the sound then got it spot-on. Her voice was just superb, amazing really, quite one of the best I have ever heard. What a privilege for us to have heard it at the peak; such a shame how things later went for her.

Tina Turner I had seen a few years earlier, at the very tail-end of her wilderness years before her transformation into a solo global superstar. A great show-woman, she knew how to entertain an audience with a powerhouse performance – fabulous!

Diana Ross I remember as also putting on a great show, although perhaps slightly more memorable for the amount of costume changes than the performance. Another great voice though.
 
 
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