I immediately thought of you when I read that post, Willie. I thought that you would have been devastated at the time.
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I immediately thought of you when I read that post, Willie. I thought that you would have been devastated at the time.
1942 Graham Nash was born.
1963 Born on this day, Eva Cassidy, US singer. She is the only artist to score three posthumous UK No.1 albums: 2001’s ‘Songbird’; 2002’s ‘Imagine’ and 2003’s ‘American Tune’. In 2001 she also had a UK No.42 single with ‘Over The Rainbow’ and the 2007 UK No.1 single ‘What a Wonderful World’ with Katie Melua. Eva died of skin cancer on November 1st 1996, aged 33.
1973 Keith Emerson’s hands are injured during a performance by Emerson, Lake & Palmer in San Francisco. His piano, rigged to explode as a stunt, detonates prematurely
1977 Born on this day, Shakira, (Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll), singer, (2002 UK No.2 single ‘Whenever Wherever’, 2006 world-wide No.1 single ‘Hips Don’t Lie’). Highest selling Colombian artist of all time, having sold over forty million albums.
1979 Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols dies of a heroin overdose less than four months after fatally stabbing his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, at New York’s Chelsea Hotel.
1983 No. 1 : “Africa,” Toto. The group dominates the 1983 Grammy Awards, winning in six categories including Record of the Year (“Rosanna”) and Album of the Year (“Toto IV”).
1985 Foreigner hits #1 with "I Want to Know What Love Is".
1996 Bob Dylan plays a special corporate gig for 250 employees of Nomura Securities International, Inc. at Phoenix’s Biltmore Hotel.
2004 TV network CBS apologised for its broadcast of the American Super Bowl after Janet Jackson was left exposed when Justin Timberlake ripped her top. The pair had been performing a raunchy half-time duet when one of Jackson’s breast’s was exposed as Timberlake pulled at her top. CBS quickly cut away from the scene but was still flooded with calls from angry viewers about the half-time entertainment, produced by MTV. Timberlake insisted it had been an accident saying “I am sorry that anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the half-time performance of the Super Bowl.”
2004 Clive Davis, the record exec who has helped steer the careers of Whitney Houston, Santana and Alicia Keys, is made head of BMG Records. BMG’s current roster includes Dave Matthews and The Strokes.
1959 22 year old Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, aged 17, died in a crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa, the pilot of the single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza plane was also killed. Holly hired the plane after heating problems developed on his tourbus. All three were traveling to Fargo, North Dakota, for the next show on their Winter Dance Party Tour which Holly had set - covering 24 cities in three weeks, to make money after the break-up of his band, The Crickets, last year.
1973 Elton John started a three-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Crocodile Rock'. Elton's first of five US No.1 singles.
1990 for the first time ever, the UK Top 3 singles featured non-British and non-American acts. Ireland's Sinead O'Connor, Australia's Kylie Minogue and Belgium's Technotronic. Sinead O'Connor had her first No.1 single with Nothing Compares To U', a song written by Prince.
2010 AC/DC singer Brian Johnson, joined a growing group of critics of Bob Geldof and U2 singer Bono over their very public charity work, saying they should stop lecturing audiences about charity work and instead do their good deeds in private. Johnson said “When I was a working man I didn’t want to go to a concert for some bastard to talk down to me that I should be thinking of some kid in Africa. I’m sorry mate, do it yourself, spend some of your own money and get it done. It just makes me angry.”
This reminds me of Santana. Don't go to one of his concerts if you aren't prepared to be preached at! There is one segment in every concert we've been to of his where he spends close to 10 minutes preaching about the concept from his Love Child days. "Just Love Everybody". Carlos doesn't seem a strongly "religious" person as far as modern religion goes. But he has a belief or profession that is strongly Hippy-Feeling to me. God is inside you. He's inside everything, the birds, people, rocks...everywhere.Quote:
2010 AC/DC singer Brian Johnson, joined a growing group of critics of Bob Geldof and U2 singer Bono over their very public charity work
I remember sitting around with a group of close friends out by a lake watching the sun come up as we were discussing such "heavy" concepts. The fact that we were on one hell of a trip might have influenced us <LOL>
There isn't anything wrong with that other than it took him 10 minutes each concert to get the point across. Just like it took me 10 minutes to type this in <LOL>
Sound like Carlos and I have something in common. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeA
But as far as Brian Johnson's comment I agree, there is a fine line between making a statement on stage about kids in Africa and taking it too far. The audience may tolerate or even appreciate the first, but get bored or irate if it goes on too long.
True. I think a key part of Johnson's issues is that he feels like the concert-goer is getting "talked down to." I guess his mentality is that it's a lot easier for a billionaire to be generous than it is for the working guy, and they shouldn't be made to feel like they're pieces of crap if they don't give some of their hard-earned money to kids in Africa. A lot of working people give money to charities but they're usually local ones, or their church, and perhaps they feel that Bono shouldn't assume they need to be preached at in order to give money to a cause.
That said, for me personally, I appreciate the fact that Bono is sincerely trying to raise even more money for causes he cares about. His heart is in the right place. He just needs to be careful not to harp upon it and come off as badgering the audience or, as shown above, it backfires. Perhaps outside of the concert setting is best.
Just a thought here, but when I went to Live Aid in 1985, my niece and I paid £5 for our tickets with a £20 donation. £5 for 10 hours of great acts. !!!!
With the silly costs of tickets today, I wonder how many people would mind if part of their ticket money went to a charity of the artists choice. ? I know we didn't pay a lot but in my mind I went to the concert for £5 (and made a donation). Think of the amounts that could be raised not forgetting good PR for the artist(s).
But then it comes out of other people's wallets in the sense that we're paying the same amount for our ticket, yet they're not receiving as much profit. Of course, as you said, that would definitely give the artist some good PR!Quote:
Originally Posted by Annabel
I did say it was just a thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by sodascouts
Yes, we pay the same amount for the ticket, but you're going to pay that price anyway. So if a part of that cost goes to a charity, not the artists /promoters pocket (even $5 or £5 per person), the concert goer gets a warm fuzzy feeling for helping their band /artist's fave cause and the charity raises extra funds. The band /artist / promoters profits go down yes, but they do well enough it seems. If they want to help their charity enough they'd maybe consider it. Could stop some of the preaching too. :laugh:
I certainly didn't begrudge paying £25 for a '£5' ticket. (I know tickets cost a lot more now but at the time it was a lot. Honest ;)) Of course it also depends how charitable you are. Hmm maybe an opt out scheme, something like we have with the gift aid scheme here for charitable attractions like wild life parks. :shrug:
I like the way you think, Annabel!