Word: concert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lost her "best friend," Painter Martin Burgoyne, 24, to AIDS, rocked the Garden with old songs given pertinent twists. As she sang Papa Don't Preach, the screens flashed Ronald Reagan's image; at song's end, they bore the message SAFE SEX. Everyone got the message from the concert, which raised $400,000 for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR), and from a comic book about AIDS. "Read this booklet," a handwritten note urged, "then give it to your best friend. It just might save his or her life. It just might save your own. Love, Madonna...
Hope, pugnacity, desperation. And the entertainer's belief that, against fatal odds, the show must go on. These may be the only emotional weapons an artist can marshal against a disease that has sapped America's artistic community. Star-studded evenings like the Madonna concert and the Ludlam memorial have become depressingly frequent occasions for New York's beau monde. In October, 13 prominent dance companies will appear in Dancing for Life, which should raise $1.5 million for four AIDS groups. In November, Leonard Bernstein, Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price and other luminaries will stage a Carnegie Hall concert to cadge...
...Eastern Europe seems already to be backfiring against the regimes in the region -- and therefore against Soviet control. One of the most extraordinary images of the year came last month at the Berlin Wall. A group of East German youths had gathered in hopes of hearing a rock concert on the other side when armed police moved in. The youths took up a chant: "We want Gorbachev!" In effect, they were invoking his new thinking to mitigate the brutality of the old order. The tactic did not work. The police cracked heads and dispersed the crowd. The moment...
...huge last year with the top- selling debut album in music history. Now she has topped herself: her new album is the first by a female singer to go to No. 1 in its first week on the charts. On July 4 she began a three- month concert tour that is already a hot summer ticket. And you know what? She sings beautifully...
...left. Nigel Dempster, the country's leading gossip columnist, informed readers of the Daily Mail on Sunday that Di spent the weekend with Dunne and other guests at his family's country home while both his parents and Charles were away. When Diana was photographed at a David Bowie concert next to a handsome man, several papers trumpeted that it was Dunne. It was not; Di's companion turned out to be an officer in the Queen's Household Cavalry. The mistake did not deter at least one paper from offering some friendly advice. "Have an early night, Diana," urged...