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| People Magazine - March 6, 2006 |
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| "I've never been trendy, says Manilow, who's already planning a follow-up to The Greatest songs, of the Fifties." "I just do what feels good. These songs should appeal to everybody." After 32 years, it's gotten a lot easier to persuade Barry Manilow to make a hit record. In 1974, when his label head Clive Davis pressed him to record what would be his breakthrough single, "Mandy," the singer recalls telling Davis. "I've been in this business a year and a half. This is not a hit song!" Now more than three decades in, the 62-year-old singer says he knows a good project when Davis, BMG North America's chairman and CEO, suggests it. Sure enough, The Greatest Songs of the Fifties, Manilow's album of covers, recently debuted at the top of the Billboard chart. "I don't think you'll ever hear lyric-writing like this again: 'Love is a many splendored thing," he says. "These days you hear, 'My humps, my lumps, my bumps'!" He may not be as current as the Black Eyed Peas, but that doesn't matter to Manilow's diverse fan base, which consists, he says, of "little children to grandmothers." After years on the road, the singer has settled into his headlining role at the Las Vegas Hilton, where audiences know every word, from "I Write the Songs" (before recording it, "I was afraid people would say, 'Who does he think he is, Bob Dylan?'") to "the one they come for," as he calls it. "On my tombstone it will say, 'Barry Manilow-Copacabana.'" To this day, he still marvels at his hans. "The most flattering of all is when the trash collectors yell, 'Barry! Barry!' hanging off their trucks. You know you've made it when they do that." |
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