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The stuff of dreams: why Susan Boyle is the new Elvis

For all his faults, Elvis Presley knew a great song when he heard it – or at least the producers and arrangers around him did. Susan Boyle and her team have the same knack.

 

They’ve pulled together a disparate and unconnected collection of songs into I Dreamed A Dream, a debut album that shouldn’t work but somehow does.