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George Benson - Jazz Master

Advantages: Amazing vocals, guitar playing, strong melodies
Disadvantages: Sadly a tendency towards blandness

Introduction Jazz music seems to have a terrible reputation. You only have to look at how its been ridiculed over the years by the likes of "Jazz Club" on the "Fast Show", or Benny Hill's take on Cleo Laine back in the 70s to see it isn't really held in particularly high esteem by the mainstream music buyer. And not a lot of jazz ever makes it through to the pop charts - perhaps because of the fact its not radio friendly and may require you to think outside the box a little. One jazz performer who did make through to the mainstream and did very well indeed however was George Benson - albeit through his "jazz lite". About George Benson George Benson was born in Pittsburgh in 1943 and began his career as an instrumentalist, playing guitar in jazz combos and earning a name for himself within that genre. By 1976 he had signed ...

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Bensons Customer Service goes Belly Up

Advantages: Lovely beds
Disadvantages: Rude staff, terrible customer service

Although this review is primarily a moan at Benson?s Bed Shop, I have endeavoured to give a brief background of the shop and the products they sell. Unfortunately, I have already posted in the Buyer Beware section, so I have had to use this category for a rant. Last year our bed began to show signs of age.....you know the thing, you get out in the morning and have the imprints of the springs in your back?.. My mother-in-law decided she would buy us a new bed for Christmas, so we duly trundled off to Bensons Beds in Coventry in November 2002. Bensons have stores all over the country, 220 of them to be precise, and pride themselves on being the largest bed retailer in the country. Details of your nearest store, should you ever be unfortunate enough to want to buy a bed from them, can be found on their website. The shop is very ...

Lizard_Lover 26.03.2003 (11.10.2003) · Read full review
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Bensons - Not too sure of these yet!

Advantages: you can lay on the beds
Disadvantages: customer service

Bensons for Beds calls themselves Britains Biggest bed specialist. Im not sure if this is true or not as the stores, although large, don't tend to have masses of beds on offer. From 'Britains Bed Specialist' I would expect to see at least 100 beds from around 20 different brands. In reality you're lucky if you see 40 beds from 4 different manufacturers. Stores are usually out of the town centre with plenty of free parking. They are usually open 7 days a week. When you walk into a show room the predators are lurking, ready for you to sit on or express any interest in a bed. When they do come over I've found that they don't really have too much information about the beds and what they're made of. (I can read the information sheet myself y'know!) We have found a mattress we like at Bensons but we're still not sure whether we ...

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