The Amoo family still live around Aigburth and Toxteth and next month they'll be at the Philharmonic Hall in numbers for what was originally a regular tour featuring
The Real Thing alongside the band Heatwave and DJ Ian Gibbons.
First staged in the West End in 1982,
The Real Thing transferred to Broadway, where it won awards including the Tony Award for Best Play in 1994.
It takes the best tribute acts from around the world (rather than just members of the public who believe they can impersonate a star) and asks them to compete in front of a live studio audience to show who truly is 'better than
the real thing.'.
| Original vocalists in
The Real Thing, Chris and Eddie Amoo and Dave Smith, are heading to Holmfirth
He bought them for PS10 and sold them on for PS75 - a quarter of
the real thing's price.
Other notable hits from
the Real Thing include Can't Get By Without You, You'll Never Know What You're Missing, Whenever You Want My Love and Can You Feel The Force.
Made up of the three original members, brothers Chris and Eddie Amoo with Dave Smith,
The Real Thing perform around the UK and internationally.
THEY are one of the most popular British soul groups to emerge during the '70s and now
The Real Thing are celebrating 40 years in the music business with a tour.
It's pounds 3, www.johnlewis.com Careful you don't mistake these quail ceramic hamster salt and pepper shakers with
the real thing. They're pounds 13.99 from Cotswold Trading, cotswoldtrading.com You certainly can't win this at a fairground.
In "
The Real Thing," a Tony Award-winner, he gives us dazzling wit, breathtaking verbal dexterity, psychological depth, political wisdom, theatrical pyrotechnics and more layers than a mille-feuille pastry.
Speaking at the premiere Brad Pitt said: "Bennett Miller's mandate was 'get real baseball players', you know it looked like
the real thing, it is
the real thing.
An old friend (and for a good reason--he's
the real thing, and a genuine gentleman), I've always respected him because his methods are simple, make perfect sense in the actual, real world we all live in, and are easy to understand and learn.
Look again--that animal in the forest may not be
the real thing! Wildlife authorities in several states have introduced robotic animals to "roam" among live ones.
I subsequently checked with the few half a dozen or so that still serve
the real thing and none of them had been approached.
ART: A major retrospective of one of the most revered painters of his generation, Glenn Brown,
The Real Thing is the largest exhibition of his life's work to date.
