The young Michael with his mop of curly hair stands at the front of the stage, sings into a condenser microphone. The edit chops out about one-and-a-half verses.

Michael is scanning the audience throughout, but he chooses not to engage with the camera - Michael's audience is the folk in the studio tonight. A bravura performance.

Crossing the Themes has a great analysis of Ball's performance through a decade.

https://crossingthethemes.wordpress.com/2019/12/23/the-power-of-performance-love-changes-everything/

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"Love changes everything" - Michael Ball.

From the forthcoming Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Aspects of Love", and the song is far far far far far far far far better than the show.

Ball plays the ingenue, unaccustomed to the idea of love; as the song builds and grows, so does his confidence, until the song resolves in the final verses.

By the end, Ball has revealed himself to be a great singer, and (we might hope, for the purposes of the plot) an equally great lover.

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