Word: gig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bands from Harvard, MIT, Boston University and Northeastern will play for 45 minutes each beginning at 8 pm, and New Man will do an hour gig at midnight. The council will fund part of the cost of the production...
...late-night rock 'n' rollers it was an ungodly hour, but the gig was for an exceptional cause. So 37 top musicians made a point of showing up at 10:30 a.m. in a London studio to record Do They Know It's Christmas? The one-day superstar session-dubbed Band Aid-was organized by Bob Geldof, leader of the British group Boomtown Rats, to raise money for the famine victims of Ethiopia. The $2 single, which will be released in the U.S. this week, has already sold a million copies in England, where it appeared three...
...fill the space between the extended pinup sequences and Charle's nonstop social commemary, Laura tells her own story. The poster manages to say a few words. She wants to sing, but her lead guitar has departed for L.A., leaving her stranded without a band and without a gig...
...live most of the time with their mother in Spain, he has very little else in his life but singing, rehearsing and singing some more. He has four houses scattered around the world, but his real home is a Mystère-Falcon 20, which jets him from gig to gig. "Everything has to be quick for Julio," says Martinez. "Once he thought the water was too warm in his Miami pool. I offered to turn down the thermostat, but he said that would take too long. We had trucks dump five tons of ice into the pool...
...Epps quashed the proposal in December, citing concerns over the reliability of the financing of the event and the effect it would have on the stadium. The council then pulled together and invited nouveau stars R.E.M. to play at the indoor track in the spring, and the gig went off without a hitch, although the council lost more than...