"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 23:24:26 +0100, "Keith G"
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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:09:17 +0100, "Keith G"
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He's gone and we'll miss him, even if he was never our *favourite*...




True. He was never to my taste in tenor singing, but certainly a great
spectacle. Bel Canto has always been more my thing than Can Belto.


*Belto* indeed - the 'Cornetto Song' has just ended on Carsick FM!!

(Getting in my car a while back I was greeted with Pav's Nessun Dorma
and it's been Pav all the way - if nothing else, what a *performer* he
was!!)




That thing must have hung round his neck like an albatross. Suppose it
made him a rich man, though.

It brought him the "wider audience" recognition that few classical
artists can even dream of. Worldwide sales were phenomenal.
Expect an "In Memoriam" boxed set from Decca fairly soon.

Iain