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...have Diana, who is associated with very powerful images around issues like land mines and HIV/AIDS, gives us a voice. It opens doors and gives us a seat at the table." It also brings in money. All the proceeds from the sold-out Concert for Diana at London?s Wembley Stadium on July 1 - organized by William and Harry to celebrate what would have been their mother?s 46th birthday - are going to charities Diana supported, including the National aids Trust and the Leprosy Mission...
...London today, so a limited-edition 70th anniversary special Monopoly Here & Now brings the game up to date. New hot properties such as Notting Hill and Canary Wharf are selling for mini-money millions, a barrage of London icons - including the London Eye, Tate Modern and the new Wembley Stadium - have appeared and, instead of scooping up $18 in a beauty contest, players who draw the right Chance card receive $183,000 for winning a reality TV show. The Free Parking square, however, is history. In London? Never...
...dress the part, Delerm can still pull in the crowds. Last month, he played a sold-out five-night stand at the famed Olympia concert hall in Paris - the ultimate badge of success in France, equivalent, in stature if not capacity, to headlining at Madison Square Garden or Wembley Stadium. He embarks on a national tour on June 28. What's the attraction? The young singer-songwriter is reviving an old French tradition: the chanson. Back in the 1960s, these nostalgic songs captured the hearts of music lovers with their emotion-charged lyrics and rousing delivery, sometimes, but not always...
Ninety thousand came to JFK, 72,000 to Wembley. More than a billion people, including those in the Soviet Union, could have tuned in on live satellite broadcasts to watch over 60 of the world's most prominent rock acts. All together, this dream was called Live Aid. The breadth and heart of it were great...
...there were great moments in the music. Elvis Costello asking the Wembley audience to join him in "this old northern English folk song" and performing a peerless acoustic guitar version of All You Need Is Love. Bono of the Irish band U2 singing a mesmeric Bad. Sting duetting with Phil Collins on Every Breath You Take. Bob Dylan, singing a set of early songs and suggesting that a small portion of the Live Aid donations be used to help American farmers pay off mortgages. But the video superstructure constructed to beam the event across the world became an open...