- Title: UNITED KINGDOM: COUNTRY ROCK SINGER SHERYL CROW PERFORMS IN LONDON
- Date: 18th November 1996
- Summary: CROW PERFORMING IN CONCERT
- Embargoed: 3rd December 1996 12:00
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- Location: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM/ VIDEO LOCATIONS
- Country: United Kingdom
- Reuters ID: LVA6XEDOIFKH72358H25C7Q5PUZ8
- Story Text: She's been called the hottest thing to come out of America -- country rock singer Sheryl Crow is now filling concert halls across the Atlantic.
Performing from her new album "Sheryl Crow", the 32-year-old singer appeared at London's Shepherds Bush Empire on Monday night.
Once famed for her baggy dresses and Doc Marten boots, the blonde petite singer laughed off suggestions she has drastically revamped her image into a sassy feminine star.
"In three years you change a lot, the way you dress, people have got fixated on that one thing. It makes me think 'Wow(' John Lennon changed his image every five minutes and nobody said anything," she told Reuters Television before going on stage.
Crow was raised in small town Missouri and shot to fame in Los Angeles. Her influences, she says, stretch far and wide, resulting from her early career of supporting big-name bands.
No stranger to vast crowds during her career, she began in the late 1980s, providing vocal back-up for Michael Jackson and Don Henley. She has also toured with Bob Dylan and sung with Joe Cocker and Sinead O'Connor, and performed a duet with Mick Jagger on the American leg of the Stones' Voodoo Lounge world tour.
Sheryl Crow was last year named best new artist in the Grammy music industry awards while her international hit "All I wanna do (is have some fun)" was voted best pop vocal of 1995 and record of the year. She sold six million copies of her first album, "Tuesday Night Music Club".
Crow has tackled thorny issues including transvestisism and the casting-couch syndrome (What Can I Do For You?).
She welcomes the changing trend from the domination of female singers such as Madonna or Paula Abdul towards the lyric-led balladists. But she is unconvinced the increased interest in female vocalists is permanent.
"The way people are talking about it makes it a novelty. Until we have the same careers as men over a long time with credibility then we're still stuck in the rut," she said.
She admires accomplished lyricists such as Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen -- who, she says, score their songs cinematically -- and one of her great ambitions is to compose the score for a film.
Another ambition -- "to have a family" she laughs.
Crow returns to the United States at the end of November, where she plans to tour. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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