Word: bandness
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...love you too!" Radiohead's Thom Yorke confided to the audience at the fifth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on Saturday night. Such effusiveness from the English art-rock band's notoriously introspective lead singer was unusual, but then so was the setting: a 700-acre farm outside of Manchester, Tennessee, where 80,000 people had convened for four days of non-stop music, mingling and merriment. Radiohead's appearance was the centerpiece and high point of a wide-ranging festival that included satisfying sets from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Elvis Costello, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah...
...first glance the scene could be from any one of several generations of London rock gigs: a flurry of plastic beer tumblers flying through the air as the band strikes up its biggest hit and the lead singer dives onto the uplifted hands of the bouncing Brixton Academy crowd. But closer inspection pinpoints the scene as part of a surging - and financially secure - live pop-music scene in 2006. What are the clues? First, the sign above the door says Brixton Carling Academy, incorporating the name of the biggest-selling beer in Britain and main sponsors of the 77-year...
...music. Despite a threefold increase in digital-music revenue from downloads, global-retail revenues from recorded music fell a further 2% in 2005; overall the figure is down 20% since 1999. That crisis has seen a wholesale revamping of the music-business model. In the old days, sending a band on tour was seen as a necessity, often purely to promote record sales - and yet another cost fronted by the label. Now playing live is becoming increasingly lucrative for the artists, whether the labels get a piece of it or not. "We used to give artists tour support, then recoup...
...Vegas and the ridiculous excess of the party itself. Reportedly thrown at a cost of $50,000, the gathering made the observation floor of the Stratosphere hotel positively groan from the weight of the sushi tables, ice sculptures and open bars. There was a Blues Brothers cover band (if it is possible to cover a cover band), an Elvis impersonator and, puzzlingly, a chocolate fountain. If you get a chocolate fountain on your first date, do you go back for a second...
...Four together on their final, tumultuous recording, Let It Be--famously accompanied them in their last concert, in 1969 on a London rooftop. He also received a rare honor on Get Back-the "fifth Beatle" was credited ("the Beatles with Billy Preston"), the only time a sideman for the band was so acknowledged...