Barry Manilow to play Manchester in December

Aug 12 2008 by Michael Green, Chester Chronicle

Barry Manilow coming to Manchester

LEGENDARY entertainer Barry Manilow returns to the MEN Arena in Manchester on Monday, December 8 with his new show “Ultimate Manilow: The Hits . . . and then some”.

Tickets, priced £40, £50, £60 and £70, go on sale 9am Friday, August 29.

Described by Rolling Stone magazine as “The Showman of Our Generation”, Manilow returns to Manchester for the first time since his sold-out 2002 Arena show.

Speaking ahead of his Manchester show – a concert tailor-made for his British fans – Manilow said: “The British public and I have had a long standing love affair for over 30 years. There is no audience for me like the people who party with me at a concert in the UK.”

Manilow has sold more than 76 million records worldwide – including last year’s The Greatest Songs of the Seventies - and has won the American Music Award for Favourite Pop/Rock Male Artist three times.

In 1978, five of Manilow’s albums were on the best-selling charts simultaneously – a feat equalled only by Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis.

Manilow’s many hits include Mandy, Copacabana, Could It Be Magic, Can’t Smile Without You and I Write the Songs.

Tickets may be subject to a booking fee and are available via the 24 Hour Ticketmaster Hotline 0844 847 8000; to personal callers from the M.E.N Arena Box Office (10am-6pm: Mon-Sat); via post (send sae & cheque payable to SMG UK Ltd) ; via e-ticket centres at selected zavvi stores (formerly Virgin Megastores) and via the venue’s official website men-arena.com Special Needs Ticketline 0161 950 5229 (10am-5pm: Mon-Fri). Group bookings: 0870 169 6888