…for Live8.
The classic Pink Floyd lineup - which hasn’t performed together in more than two decades–has announced plans to play at next month’s Live 8 concert in London.
The performance - which will be the first by bassist Roger Waters, guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright since 1981 - is part of a multi-city event aimed at raising the public’s awareness of global poverty and debt.
Like most people, I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world - David Gilmour
Gilmour said in a prepared statement announcing the group’s participation in the event.
It’s crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.
Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention, then it’s got to be worthwhile. - David Gilmour
Waters, the catalyst for two of the band’s best known works - 1973’s “Dark Side of the Moon” and 1979’s “The Wall” - left the group on bad terms in the ’80s.
About the only band worth seeing at the event packed with dullards and those trying to resurect carreers, suppose Jacko will be added soon…
- Hyde Park, London
- Coldplay
- The Cure
- Dido
- Bob Geldof
- Elton John
- Keane
- The Killers
- Annie Lennox
- Madonna
- Mariah Carey
- Paul McCartney
- MS. Dynamite
- Muse
- Pink Floyd
- Razorlight
- REM
- Scissor Sisters
- Snoop Dogg
- Snow Patrol
- Stereophonics
- Sting
- Joss Stone
- U2
- Velvet Revolver
- Robbie Williams
- Museum of Art, Philadelphia
- 50 Cent
- Bon Jovi
- Jay-Z
- Kaiser Chiefs
- Maroon 5
- Dave Matthews Band
- Sarah McLachlan
- P Diddy
- Will Smith (host)
- Rob Thomas
- Keith Urban
- Stevie Wonder
- Eiffel Tower, Paris
- Axelle Red
- Andrea Bocelli
- Manu Chao
- Craig David
- Calo Gero
- Johnny Halliday
- Jamiroquai
- Kyo
- Youssou N’Dour
- Yannick Noah
- Placebo
- Renaud
- Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
- A-ha
- Bap
- Crosby, Stills and Nash
- Die Toten Hosen
- Lauryn Hill
- Peter Maffay
- Brian Wilson
- Circus Maximus, Rome
- Duran Duran
- Irene Grandi
- Faith Hill
- Jovanotti
- Tim McGraw
- Nek
- Laura Pasini
- Vasco Rossi
- Zucchero
…as he reaches his 90th birthday.
On the very day, June 9th, 2005 Lester William Polfuss aka Les Paul was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.
Les truly is one of the great guitar innovators, as well as one of the great players, he’s still tinkering with the guitars that bear his name including the new Gibson Digital Les Paul.
For a full interview with Les Paul and a quick run through the story of his life and how it changed music check out Modern Guitars.
Other inductees included in the Songwriters Hall of Fame were Steve Cropper (”Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay”, “Knock on Wood”); Isaac Hayes (”Soul Man”, “Hold on, I’m Comin’”, “Theme from Shaft”); David Porter (who co-wrote “Hold on I’m Comin’” and “Soul Man” with Hayes); John Fogerty; Richard and Robert Sherman; Bill Withers; Alicia Keys (who received the Starlight Award for young songwriters); and, Smokey Robinson (a previous inductee who received the Johnny Mercer Award).
…as he reaches his 80th birthday.
Blues legend B.B. King joined local dignitaries Friday for the groundbreaking of a $10-million museum honoring him in Indianola, the Mississippi Delta town where he used to live.
Riley King was born Sept. 16, 1925, on a cotton plantation in Berclair, outside Itta Bena. He moved to Indianola in 1943 and earned the nickname “B.B.” - for Beale Street Blues Boy or just Blues Boy - during his early career in Memphis, Tenn.
The 18,000-square-foot B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center will be built around a cotton gin where King once worked.
I had this thought that I would build a house and at my death it would open as a museum - B.B. King
King said during a news conference after the ceremony. The museum isn’t his only new honor.
Different areas of the complex will feature various aspects of King’s 60-year career, many narrated and presented through animation and recordings by King himself. King will talk about his upbringing in the Mississippi Delta and the early days in Memphis, where he launched his career in clubs and on local radio.
A replica of the WDIA radio studios in Memphis, where King discovered his first real success, will also be housed at the museum.
Motorists driving on a stretch of U.S. 61 in Tennessee will be traveling the B.B. King Highway.
A ceremony noting a name change for the highway was held last week at the Beale Street nightclub that also bears King’s name.
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