Reviewed by Ian Phillips.
By Celine Dion, Sony music 2018.
Celine Dion is touring Australia and New Zealand throughout July and August and this Greatest Hits collection has been released to coincide with the tour.
It may seem strange to admit that this is the first album of Celine Dion’s music that I’ve ever listened to but for one reason or the other she just hasn’t interested me.
There is no doubting her talent, she has a beautiful voice and her renditions of well-known songs like All By Myself and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face are as good as any that I’ve heard.
Her world-wide popularity speaks for itself.
She has sold over 250 million records during her 30-year career, and in Australia alone she has sold over 3.5 million albums and DVDs, over 1.6 million singles, and had over 83 million streams, so I’m obviously in a minority.
Her tour takes her to Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Auckland.
The album contains 17 of her best known and loved tracks selected from her extensive repertoire from her first album up to the present day.
I really like Falling Into You, it’s a song I hadn’t paid enough attention to up to this point.
The big hits are here including The Power of Love, All By Myself, and That’s The Way It Is but it’s the songs that I didn’t know that most interested me like Alone, which is a very good one.
I shouldn’t be surprised at the quality of her work considering that in 2004 she was awarded The Diamond Award at The World Music Awards recognising her status as the best-selling female artist of all time.
Add to this her five Grammy Awards, two Academy Awards, and seven American Music Awards and it makes my overlooking of her an inexcusable oversight and rather ridiculous.
