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...Mega-concert promoters have not always been so sanguine. Just a few summers ago, the American rock festival seemed destined for the trash heap of music history. As recently as 2004, Lollapalooza, the granddaddy of traveling rock happenings, was struggling to stay afloat as sagging ticket sales and a general decline in live concert attendance took its toll. But the following year, Lollapalooza retooled itself from a touring entity into a two-day event based in Chicago's Grant Park. More than 60,000 people showed up to see a slate of some 60 bands that included the Pixies...
...cinemas, started drawing shoppers from all corners of Spain. Last year the town opened a new 2,500-sq-m multisports center featuring swimming pools, basketball courts and putting greens. And last month it inaugurated [an error occurred while processing this directive] a new youth center, with a theater, concert hall, workshops and mediatheque, where kids can surf the Internet, watch movies and listen to music. The keys have just been handed over to the first of 5,000 new houses, the bulk of them moderately priced, in La Dehesa Vieja (the Old Meadow). By the time that development...
...Beatles, the gregarious, gospel-influenced virtuoso, who also wrote You Are So Beautiful for Joe Cocker, was the most coveted session player of his era. Preston--who George Harrison said kept the Fab 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...
What's the first concert you ever saw? I didn't exactly have the funds for concerts. There was a time when the only joy I got was recording my outgoing answering-machine messages. My roommate and I left a message once describing when we had no heat, no water, and the fly-paper situation was bleak. It ended up being the message that the record company heard when they called to sign me. I was mortified...
...been known to discuss undergraduate life over the net.Those games and discussions appear to have paid off, as the College has increasingly relied on the Office of the President to fund its undergraduate life initiatives.Summers has used his office’s discretionary funds to contribute money to College concerts, House renovations, and more recently, the construction of a campus pub in Loker Commons and a café in Lamont Library.“President Summers’ interest in undergraduate life and his direct support of campus events—events that would have otherwise not been possible?...