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Concert review: Heart takes Calgary down memory lane with hard-rock staples from the 1970s, power ballads from the 1980s

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Summary
Nutrition label

58% Informative

The Royal Flush tour began its Canadian leg in Calgary with gentle humour, stadium polish and faithful runs through an impressive catalogue of hits.

The efficient 90-minute show gave equal time to the band’s distinct musical periods that made them stars and radio mainstays over multiple decades .

The Illinois power-pop/hard-rock outfit formed the same year as Heart.

Unlike many acts of a certain vintage, Cheap Trick have also released som ereliably fantastic records in the past 20 years .

Unfortunately, due to the band band band perpetually relegated to one-hour opening slots, at least in Calgary , we rarely get to hear this new material live.

VR Score

49

Informative language

41

Neutral language

27

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

46

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

External references

8

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