Manilow Set to Perform in Manchester, UK

Manilow Set to Perform in Manchester, UK

LOS ANGELES, August 26/PRNewswire/ --

- Tickets for 8 December Show Available Friday, 29 August

"Ultimate Manilow: The Hits...and then some," Barry Manilow's highly
anticipated non-stop hit-filled concert, is arriving in Manchester, UK on
Monday, 8 December. Manilow fans have clamored for more since the
announcement of his performing on 4, 6 and 7 December, 2008 at the 02 Arena
so Manilow is answering that demand by adding a performance on 8 December at
the Manchester Evening News Arena. Tickets go on sale Friday, 29 August at 9
am through Ticketline, http://www.ticketline.co.uk, Ticketmaster,
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk, or See Tickets at http://www.seetickets.com.

After hundreds of sold out performances at The Las Vegas Hilton since
opening in 2005, "Ultimate Manilow: The Hits ... and then some" will offer a
larger-than-life experience, providing the audience with a truly unique
evening of songs and memories! Manilow has been touted in Las Vegas as "one
of the most popular singers in America" (NY Times), and is "among the best in
the business" (Variety), with the Las Vegas Review-Journal urging
concert-goers to "jump out of your seat and join the party!"

The show Manilow will bring to the UK will be tailor-made for his beloved
British fans. "The British public and I have had a long standing love affair
for over 30 years. There is no audience for me like the people who party with
me at a concert in the UK." Manilow says, "I am creating a show that I can
only do in Britain. If I tried to do the show I'm putting together for the
December concerts anywhere else in the world, the audiences would think I was
nuts! But my British fans and I know better. We'll have a ball!"

With worldwide record sales exceeding 75 million, his work as a singer,
songwriter, arranger and producer has earned Barry Manilow the highest honors
and the distinction of being a powerful and commanding performer. Last year,
Manilow released his 60th album of his career, The Greatest Songs of the
Seventies, which became his third top-selling album in the span of two years.

Billboard Magazine recently stated: "Among the few things one can count
on in life: the taste of McDonald's cheeseburgers, 'I Love Lucy' reruns are
still funny-and Barry Manilow never wearing out his welcome at the top of the
charts." The pop icon has written hundreds of songs and performed around the
globe thrilling millions of fans, winning a Grammy, two Emmys, several Tony
Awards and an Oscar nomination along the way.

Proclaimed by Rolling Stone magazine "The Showman of Our Generation,"
Manilow's unparalleled career encompasses virtually every arena of music,
including performing, composing, arranging, and producing. A Songwriters Hall
of Fame inductee, his career includes 25 consecutive Top 40 hits such as Even
Now, This One's for You, Weekend in New England, I Write the Songs, Tryin' to
Get the Feeling Again and Copacabana (At the Copa). In 1978, five of
Manilow's albums were on the charts simultaneously -- a record rivaled only
by Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis. Industry charts rank him the undisputed
Number One Adult Contemporary Artist of All Time.

Concert-goers will have a chance to enter a contest to win a wild weekend
in Vegas to see his new show, "ULTIMATE MANILOW: The Hits," at the Las Vegas
Hilton throughout 2009.

Web site: http://www.ticketline.co.uk
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk
http://www.seetickets.com

Source: Barry Manilow

Carol Marshall, carol@cmarshallpr.com, or Stephenie Hope, Stephenie@cmarshallpr.com, both of Carol Marshall Public Relations, +1-818-760-6450, for Barry Manilow

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