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Re: Happy Birthday Joey!!!!!!
Reply #5333 - Apr 18th, 2009 at 10:28am
" At Coachella, Paul McCartney, Ever the Uniter
The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival began in 1999, and it built its reputation with smart, cutting-edge rock taste, booking Bjork, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and the reunions of the Pixies and the Stooges. But its most daring lineups have come in the last couple of years, as it has looked beyond fashionable alt-rock circles to bring in mainstream, old-line stars like Prince and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. And on Friday, the opening night of its 10th year, Coachella got about as close to rock orthodoxy as possible with a headlining performance by Paul McCartney. At 66, he is old enough to be the grandfather of most members of the festival’s target demographic.
But if any grandfather could unite a crowd of thousands under the banner of rock ’n’ roll, it would be Mr. McCartney. For almost two and a half hours, he had the attention of what seemed to be the entire multigenerational festival — although throbbing bass from a dance tent across the field shattered that illusion more than once — for a zesty and sentimental run through more than 30 Beatles and solo songs. The super-classics, like “Hey Jude,” “Back in the U.S.S.R.,” “Band on the Run” and “Let It Be,” have been ingrained with such pleasure that people seemed to sing along spontaneously.
Dressed in a crisp white shirt with black suspenders and dark slacks, Mr. McCartney looked to be of an entirely different caste from the scraggly characters who played throughout the day. And he clearly relished the attention, pausing between each song as if accepting an award. (Contrary to rumors that had been flying around the festival all day, in actual conversation and especially online, neither Ringo Starr nor George Harrison’s son Dhani joined in.) But he struck a somber note when he remarked that he was performing on the 11th anniversary of the death of his first wife, Linda. “She loved the desert, she loved music, she loved rock ’n’ roll,” he said. “She loved it all.”
Mr. McCartney was not the only conspicuously AARP-eligible face at Coachella. Leonard Cohen, 74, dressed like an old private eye in a dark suit and fedora, had continued his comeback tour with a crisp and flawless abbreviated set earlier in the evening, at a side stage. He got a lilting singalong from the crowd — his was mostly older — during “Hallelujah,” but shortly thereafter his very lightly amplified set was overshadowed by thunderous guitars: Morrissey, one stage over, had just begun to play . "
Full Frontal Nuzzle Coming Your Way Me Brother .....
FULL FRONTAL !!!!!
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