Lullaby and Goodnight, With Fee Waybill Sleep Tight

Even Laurie Anderson would find the collaborative billing too David Byrne. Inside Celine Dion and baby photographer Anne Geddes's new Miracle is a blurb for the "180-page large-format full-colour book complete with music CD and DVD," so you have to get the box set for the full multimedia experience. La révolution ne sera pas télévisée, ce sera un coffret. Producer-ROCist David Foster reaches back to his Tubes-Alice Cooper days, but the "babies" here are plantoid pods instead of "dead," and none of them (despite "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face") are holding an apple.

photo: Andre Rau/Sony Music

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Celine Dion & Anne Geddes
Miracle
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