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It’s Wednesday and Céline Dion is falling in love with The Cure.

A couple of weeks back, I had a 10-minute one-on-one interview, as we say in the biz, with Quebec’s most famous singer. She was meeting the Canadian press in Montreal to talk about her new album and world tour, both titled Courage. The album will be launched Nov. 15 with three songs being unveiled Wednesday: The title track, Lying Down and Imperfections.

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The global tour kicks off Wednesday night in Quebec City at the Videotron Centre and includes shows at the Bell Centre in Montreal Sept. 26, 27 and 30, and Oct. 1, 4, and 5.

The day of the interview at a downtown hotel, things were running about 90 minutes late, as they do in these types of situations all too often. Dion’s team was shooting all of the interviews with three cameras, so I had been mic’d up, and was sitting waiting in the room when La Dion finally arrived.

Then the fun began.

I assume Dion didn’t know who was going to be interviewing her and then she saw it was me. We go way back. The first time we met was just weeks before the launch in 1990 of Unison, her first English album, and I’ve been interviewing her every couple of years ever since. She said ‘hi’ and then said: