Whitney Houston: Dazzling or disappointing?

With the Whitney Houston concert coming up in Tenerife on the 30th (hopefully) and doubts raised over it after her recent cancellations for a respiratory infection, this review of her recent performance in Birmingham in the UK, might be of interest:

While, “Some of her behaviour here, it’s true, petered between the eccentric and the charmingly kooky – she chattered ramblingly between songs, signed an autograph from the stage, started sentences and didn’t finish them – but the proof of her sanity was in her singing.” The Guardian review also says, “contrary to reports from Australia, the pipes were in full working order. Whatever drugs did to her they didn’t impede her ability to deliver a song with all flags flying.”

Not every account agrees however, with Bernadette McNulty in the Telegraph saying that her performance "didn’t add up to enough", was sporadic and, at one point after a 20 minute absence from the stage, she received a chorus of boos.

She says "it was a night that in the end still tasted of disappointment."