Word: concert
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...What They're Listening to in Israel: In the Swinging Sixties, straitlaced Israel rejected the Fab Four's offer to perform. Four decades later, Beatlemania has gripped Tel Aviv, with a Sept. 25 Paul McCartney concert drawing at least 40,000 fans--who forked over as much as $1,500 a pop to see Sir Paul's performance despite death threats lodged against him by a Muslim extremist...
...playing a full album as their set, including Built to Spill performing their celebrated 1997 indie rock epic “Perfect From Now On” and Tortoise playing their 1996 post-rock masterpiece “Millions Now Living Will Never Die.”Full album concerts experienced a surge in popularity over the past few years. Hogan explained that ATP started the full album trend with the Don’t Look Back concert series in Britain, which featured the Stooges performing “Funhouse,” and later Hogan personally convinced Sonic Youth...
...crowd: the rock and roll ragamuffins before me had begun to beat each other up. They pushed and shoved and fell down and sometimes didn’t get back up for a while. One of them was a female co-worker, so embarrassed that she was at the concert (and drunk) that she did not make eye contact with me the next few days at work. One of their final songs was a crowd favorite, “Zhong Nan Hai.” At the time I thought the song was about the complex of buildings that...
...crazy," says Khan, 25, now a marketing executive for Clifton, a real estate agency in Dubai. "Projects would sell out a couple hours after opening." He used to collect checks from clients and wait in line overnight at the developers' offices like a teenager looking for rock concert tickets...
...jetliner. In August a selection of the material was shipped for viewing to the Hamptons, the weekend retreat for New York millionaires. It also went to New Delhi, to wink at India's increasingly powerful collectors. In June Hirst flew to Kiev to attend a Paul McCartney concert and a party hosted by Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian steel billionaire who owns seven Hirsts and a private art museum. A month later the artist gave a private tour of some of the Sotheby's work to Daria Zhukova, a young, London-based art impresario. Her boyfriend is Roman Abramovich, the Russian...