| Dion Di Mucci |
| In love |
| Dion Di Mucci wrote '(I Was) Born To Cry' when he was sixteen On the recording he sings seven bells out of the song It's in a minor key And sounds like two legions of pop Kicking the door in Then beating you up I saw him play live a couple of times in 1990 I was right at the front He wore sunglasses and a discreetly peaked cap And a black leather jacket Which he took off theatrically at some point The enormity of his talent made him seem a little inhuman Like little Michael Jackson singing 'Who's Loving You?' The precocity almost overwhelms and distances him from the audience When it should make us stagger and swoon I had to wait for a while to see if I trusted something this good I remember him playing 'Make The Woman Love Me' Which I then searched for on record for 10 years It's on 'Born To Be With You' Which Phil Spector lavishly and lovingly built for his idol Dion It's the Taj Mahal of pop With bells on Voices are hard to describe Dion's voice is like a miraculously cast bell His singing is utterly fearless And open He sounds hurt and proud at the same time Try singing along with 'Teenager In Love' Feel how your throat contracts as Dion's seems to get looser, lighter, stronger The ascents feel physical The punched stay hit His phrasing is made to work with lots of non-verbal 'ums' and 'ahs' and 'ers' 'Mwaahz' and 'Yeeejiz' And trail offs and lead ins And it is always right And natural And distinctively, lastingly Dion When I think of great voices I think about Clarence Carter, Gram Parsons, Jackie Moore, Kevin Rowland... But I always think of Dion Di Mucci as the very best |
| The Majestic , he should have played there but he graced the union instead And the Town & Country Club a few nights later |
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