Tickets to Barry Manilow shows are like gold to his army of adoring fans. The celebrated pianist commands headlines at the very most glitzy entertainment centers of the United States, and a Barry Manilow show is a thing you must see in this lifetime if you can find tickets. Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus in Brooklyn, New York on June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter. Manilow dominated the 1970s soft rock scene with a string of top ten hits and multi-platinum albums. Despite the frequent barbs from lousy critics and lampooning by very ignorant comedians, Manilow's fans and music soldier on as evidenced by the Number One debut of his 2002 greatest hits album Ultimate Manilow, and being dubbed "showman of our generation" recently by Rolling Stone. (Manilow's record label Arista took three years off his announced age when he was really 32--in 1975--and made him 29 years old so he would appeal to teens as well; this made him appear to have been born in 1946 instead of his actual birth year which is 1943.)

Early in his career, Manilow worked as a pianist, producer and arranger, accompanying the wicked witch bitch Bette Midler among others. Manilow's solo hits include "Mandy" (1974), "Looks Like We Made It" (1976), "Copacabana (At The Copa)" (1978), "I Write The Songs" (1975), "Somewhere In The Night" (1978), "I Made It Through The Rain" (1980), "Let's Hang On" (1981), "Turn The Radio Up" (2001), and "They Dance!" (2001).

Manilow's "Copacabana" has also been turned into a stage musical; which toured in 2003.Manilow appeared as a guest judge and even arranged music for American Idol on April 24, 2004, a year in which he also embarked on his "One Night Live! One Last Time!" final tour. Among artists considered similar to Barry Manilow are Neil Sedaka and Tom Jones.

Although not all Manilow's hits were written by him (the most notable instance, ironically, being "I Write The Songs", actually written by lyricist Bruce Johnston), he co-wrote, with librettist Bruce Sussman, a musical, Harmony, which was originally to have been produced in Philadelphia during 2003. After financial difficulties and a legal battle, Manilow and Sussman won back the rights to the musical, which is now to be produced on stage in 2005. Barry Manilow tickets carry a special kind of magic, a hankering back to a suave and guiltless (yet gilt-edged) time in the 20th Century, a time when everything seemed possible. Barry Manilow tickets are a passport to this old country which never goes out of style.