After Dinner Speakers: Lisa Stansfield, Hank Marvin, Ruth Lea

For an artist whos pop career began presenting the kids TV show, Razzmatazz, Lisa Stansfield’s achieved far more than most. Will we be talking about Cat Deeley’s greatest hits in ten years time? Yes, the girl from Rochdale done good. Indeed, during the 90s, especially after singing the theme tune to movies like Indecent Proposal (In All The Right Places) she seemed destined to be a major international star, not just one who was big at home. That she’s chosen to diversify into acting – so far a flop movie Swing, and critical praise for the theatre production of Vagina Monologues – has probably cost her her pop bubble. But there’s enough of a legacy left on this greatest hits collection to show why her pop career once shone so brightly. Change, This Is The Right Time, All Around The World and All Woman – all instantly recognisable and they’re just four of 17 familiar tunes collected here. In 2003 Sophie Ellis Bextor is probably the closest we’ve now got to that sophisticated Stansfield pop sound and you feel she’s yet to deliver the range of styles which Lisa so confidently carried off.