Prodigy's Keith Flint declared himself a big fan. Gary Barlow says, "he was my reason for getting into the business. The man is a God." Britain's most infamous tabloid, The Sun, chimes in with, "The legend is reinstated for a whole new generation."
I caught up by phone recently with the target of all this adoration, Leo Sayer, to find out just why and how all this new buzz came about, and to find out his plans for the future.
So why all the new interest Leo -- and what's The Sun got to do with it all?
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