Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:00 am
One of my favorite modern Christmas songs is Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You,” memorably sung in “Love Actually” by the young Olivia Olson.
That performance can’t be topped, but I think it is now tied with Mariah Carey and Jimmy Fallon, accompanied by the Roots on kindergarten musical instruments.
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Bon Jovi fans from across the country will have the opportunity to submit their questions for a very special Q&A with Bon Jovi, hosted by Allison Hagendorf of The CW’s “THE NEXT: Fame Is At Your Door Step.” The Q&A will be broadcast LIVE from Times Square on Tuesday evening. Questions can be submitted in advance of the event and live on event night. Submit your questions:
1. Tweet your questions now via Twitter using the hashtag #AskBonJovi
2. Text in your question on event night using a number provided onscreen during the event (This option is for Eastern and Central Time Zones only as the event will be tape delayed in Pacific and Mountain Time Zones)
Featuring a hand-selected set list from their catalog of hits, “Bon Jovi Inside Out” includes the group’s best performances from their sold-out, 12-night stand at London’s The O2, the inaugural multi-night run at New Meadowlands Stadium, and their celebratory shows at the famed Madison Square Garden.
Tickets for “Bon Jovi: Inside Out” are available now at participating theater box offices and online.
Click here for a full list of participating theaters (theaters and participants subject to change).
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 7:38 am
An exclusive story in The Wrap has some big news:
The Beatles’ Apple Corps has authorized a production company, OVOW, to scour the globe for material captured by amateurs and professionals during the group’s concert tours in the 1960s for a major film project called “The Beatles Live!”
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OVOW — an acronym for One Voice One World, a reference to the Beatles’ final live performance in the “Our World” satellite broadcast on June 25, 1967 — says it has commissioned worldwide research teams and developed social-media tools to work with fans and concertgoers in all 116 cities where the Beatles performed to get material for the film.
The goal: combining footage, images, music, interviews and stories chronicling the Fab Four’s 250 concerts from October 1963 through final concert in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park on Aug. 28, 1966,
Aiding in the search will be archivists, collectors, Beatles fan clubs, writers, academics and film restoration-experts. A website, The Beatles Live! Project, has been set up where fans can get news about the project, map the group’s tours and provide digital media, through the end of the year.
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:14 pm
I got to hear The Who’s Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend speak at the National Press Club today, which saluted them with “Tommy” cookies. They were there on behalf of the Teenage Cancer Trust, a non-profit devoted to improving the way young people with cancer and their families are treated and supported. “There’s a huge gap in the health care system,” Daltrey said. There are facilities for children and adults, but “teenagers don’t want teddy bears.” If businesses, who see teenagers as a lucrative market, recognize that they are unique, so should the medical establishment. They may need the same medicine, but their psychological, emotional, and social needs are different.”They love to be together,” he said. “We try to make their lives as normal as possible.” He told us about touring an impressive hospital facility that was “nicer than some of the hotels we stay in,” with atriums and palm trees. “But I did not see one square foot of space where a teenager could be happy.” A place for parents to stay and get support is also important.
The UK program has led to a 10-15% improvement in survival rates. “If you had a drug that made that kind of difference, they would throw billions at you.”
He hopes to promote a more comprehensive clinical recognition of the unique needs of teenagers, who often receive later diagnoses than they should because doctors are not looking for cancer. Their successful UK program is expanding to the US with the first program at UCLA and conversations underway with other hospitals. Daltrey is deeply involved as a passionate advocate and as a fundraiser, persuading other rock stars to help out by reminding them that “the music business would not exist without teenagers.”
Daltrey and Townsend good-naturedly answered questions about music, though they said performing for the teens in the program was not on the agenda. “We might kill off the rest of the hospital.” Townsend declined to say whether current music was better or worse than the music of the Woodstock era. “‘Classic rock’ is a term made up by radio DJs to sell advertising,” he said. “The continuum is the teen we all carry inside us.”
