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...Wilkeson survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three members of the group. He and the remaining members reformed the band in 1987 and were in the midst of a U.S. tour. RETIRED. MICHAEL FLATLEY, 42, the flashy and temperamental Irish-American star of the original Riverdance step-dancing extravaganza, who was fired but went on to headline his hugely successful Lord of the Dance show, after announcing that last week's performance of his Feet of Flames tour would be his final live appearance; in Dallas, Texas. Flatley, whose feet are insured for $50 million, plans to devote...
...This week one of the twin pioneers of this pop renaissance releases an eagerly-awaited second album. Air's 10,000 Hz Legend is a sprawling baroque extravaganza. In 60 minutes of multifaceted music, it sparkles with unlikely references: Pink Floyd, cult sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick, Eric Satie, White Album-era Beatles, German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk and the Beach Boys are all in there somewhere. But there's also impeccably modern production and the latest computer technology. Air transcends its influences to create something dazzlingly unique. The duo from Versailles - a well-off suburb west of Paris...
...This summer will also see Jean-Michel Jarre performing his sound-and-light extravaganza at Athens' Acropolis on June 19 and 20. Not to be outdone, Sting will perform amid Roman ruins at Lebanon's Baalbeck Festival on July 13 and 14, while Elton John will play at the Grand Theater of ancient Ephesus on July 17. These singers may have been around for a few decades, but their venues? Millennia. Talk about staying power...
...that resurfaced in 1991 was dramatically different from what audiences were used to. Their sound was infused with synthesizers and techno-based drum beats, while their tours were large-scale spectacles that expanded to the $250,000-per-day multimedia extravaganza of the 1997 PopMart tour, complete with a lemon-shaped spaceship that carried the band on stage. U2 was trying to create the next generation of music and performance by utilizing the technology...
...SIMIAN www.ikda.co.uk/simian GO APE A high-bandwidth music and design extravaganza. It's a little out there - has Earth been overrun by monkeys? - but it proves the Internet can enhance listening to music...