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Joe Cocker
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Joe Cocker
Driving Lessons
Love is all around once more for Marti Pellow. The former Wet Wet Wet frontman - a bit more grizzled than in his days as a pop heart-throb - has been deliciously reborn as a raffish American medallion man in this touring, musical version of the Jack Nicholson film, based on the John Updike novel.
Pellow revels in his role, stalking the stage like a sex-mad rooster. Glorying in the name of Darryl van Horne, he upends the lives of three bored and exceedingly desperate housewives, who fall hook line and sinker for his voodoo charms.
It must be said that Pellow has pretty much the same effect on the women in the audience, who succumbed en masse to his hip-thrusting, tongue-waggling and innuendo-laden performance.
Verdict: Absolutely diabolical - in a good way ****
By PATRICK MARMION - THE DAILY MAIL (28/08/08)