I know I run the risk of shredding every last ounce of critical cool and credibility I have left, but I'm a fanilow of Manilow. Yep, I just outed myself. But in the contemporary pantheon of singer-songwriter greats " Billy Joel, Carole King, even Dylan and McCartney " he's carved out a unique niche, not just of longevity (as the others have, too), but of memorability. "I write the songs that make the whole world sing…
SOURCE: The Stage at 01:48AM on May 5, 2011