★★★★★
1 The Collection Iglesias was last in the UK top ten in 1988, a year before Enrique's first hit. Even for those that grew up in the eighties, Julio Iglesias was somewhat of an elder statesmen but having now turned 70, it is a good time to look back at the reasons for those extraordinary sales stats. 1 The Collection is billed as an assembly of Iglesias's love songs and it is littered with cover versions, performed in that smooth Latin vocal that has made him so popular...
- www.music-news.com
2014-05-20
★★★★★
So it's welcome back to that swoonsome, croonsome Iberian uber-knob Julio the Iglesias. Not that he's ever away for that long, this being his 77th album. A couple of hours on the sunbed when all was done and dusted and no doubt he was back in the next morning and raring to go on that notoriously difficult 78th one. Depressingly rumoured to be the best-selling artist of all-time there's never been a more vivid instance of never mind the quality missus, feel that length...
- uk.launch.yahoo.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
In concert, Julio Iglesias has the kind of not-a-dry-seat-in-the-house appeal usuallyreserved for acts with younger fans. But where teen heartthrobs tendto rise and fall, the kid from Madrid just keeps going and going,sort of like the Energizer bunny of sex objects. Although the U.S...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
On his first English album in fouryears, the Make-Out Man of Madrid has put together a grab bag ofsugary confections that's expansive, diverse, and downright baffling.There are duets with Art Garfunkel, Sting, and Dolly Parton for theAnglo crowd, plus unlikely covers of Santana's "Oye Como Va" andPatsy Cline's "Crazy." Best of all is the finale, an orchestralversion of Beethoven's "Song of Joy" so overblown that you have tochuckle. Senseless...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
A lot has happened in music since Julio Iglesias' last English-language album (1994's Crazy), not least the extraordinary explosion of Latin pop that has propelled his son, Enrique, to stardom; not that you'd notice from listening to 'Romantic Classic's'. Here, time has stood still - freezing Julio in his cover-pose as ageless Lothario. Nothing wrong with that, of course; Julio fans know what they like and he doesn't disappoint...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2009-06-04
★★★★★
1100 Bel Air Place was designed as Julio Iglesias' breakthrough to the American audience, finding the Latin superstar recording with producer Richard Perry -- the architect behind blockbusters by Barbra Streisand, Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson -- and duetting with such established American superstars as Diana Ross, Stan Getz, the Beach Boys and Willie Nelson...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
The acknowledged king of adult contemporary offers up a CD that is chock-full of feel-good ballads. Whether he's covering Sting or Santana, Iglesias manages to deliver the material with the perfect combination of sentiment and showmanship. Some songs, such as "Crazy," the ballad originally made famous by Patsy Cline, are a little bit too gooey, but others, such as a beautifully arranged version of "Mammy Blue," are just gooey enough...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Julio!
Sure, I know what you're thinking: "To all the girls I've loved before..."
(Doesn't the thought of Willie Nelson boning give you the heebie jeebies?
Yeah, me too.) Put those thoughts away, put on your tux, and soak up the
vibrant if somewhat overproduced sounds of Tango, an album of...
um, tango music.
Your mom will love you forever if you give her this one, even though she may
not understand a single fucking word of it...
- www.pitchforkmedia.com
2008-07-30