Queen + Paul Rodgers в Торонто March 16th

[Olesja]

http://www.theaircanadacentre.com/about ... c6a6364841

хорошие билеты, правда, уже раскуплены. но все равно надо идти.

[Kuzya]

Не знаю, мне без Меркюри - и Квин не Квин...
Как-то уже не то.

[Olesja]

Не знаю, мне без Меркюри - и Квин не Квин...
Как-то уже не то.

я тоже сомневалась. но фредю не воскресишь, кто не успел, тот опоздал. к тому же любопытство перевесило.

[Gatchinskiy]

INXS в Ванкувере выступал или будет на днях ... но без Michael Hutchence, уже не то ... IMHO ...

[BM]

Поэтому мой респект АББЕ, которая за миллиард отказалась на сцене прыгать снова... Уходя уходи... А то как то грустно смотреть на прыгающих Жаггеров на сцене... Уж песок сыплется.. Сиди - расти кроликов..

[Gatchinskiy]

... которая за миллиард отказалась ..

не было там таких цифр ... а если бы были, то уже бы прыгали ...

[Котяр]

Не знаю, мне без Меркюри - и Квин не Квин...
Как-то уже не то.

я тоже сомневалась. но фредю не воскресишь, кто не успел, тот опоздал. к тому же любопытство перевесило.

посмотрим, что будет дальше, полным полно примеров удачных замен вокалистов в рок группах e.g. AC/DC: Bon Scott - Brian Johnson, Deep Purple: Ian Gillan - David Coverdale, Uriah Heep: David Byron - John Lawton, Black Sabbath: Ozzy - Ronnie Dio...

[Olesja]

Не знаю, мне без Меркюри - и Квин не Квин...
Как-то уже не то.

я тоже сомневалась. но фредю не воскресишь, кто не успел, тот опоздал. к тому же любопытство перевесило.

посмотрим, что будет дальше, полным полно примеров удачных замен вокалистов в рок группах e.g. AC/DC: Bon Scott - Brian Johnson, Deep Purple: Ian Gillan - David Coverdale, Uriah Heep: David Byron - John Lawton, Black Sabbath: Ozzy - Ronnie Dio...

концерт Deep Purple, кстати, очень даже ничего был. хотя я и не сходила особо с ума от них.

[BM]

не было там таких цифр ... а если бы были, то уже бы прыгали ...

Не прыгают, однако... И Битлз не пели более...
Ну нате, всезнающий Вы наш..:

Swedish disco stars ABBA have reportedly turned down a billion-dollar offer to get back together.
The band, which scored a series of top ten singles in the '70s including "Dancing Queen," "Take A Chance On Me," and "Waterloo,"
before breaking up in 1983, apparently turned down an offer from a British-American consortium to tour 100 cities, according to Reuters. "It was a hell of a lot of money to say no to, but we decided it wasn't for us," former Abba vocalist-keyboardist Benny Andersson told the Swedish newspaper "Aftonbladet" about the reunion offer. Since ABBA's demise, Andersson and former bandmate Bjorn Ulvaeus have collaborated on a series of musicals, including "Chess" (with Tim Rice), "Kristina From Duvemala," and "Mamma Mia." "Mamma Mia" is a song-cycle based on several classic ABBA tunes and has been a theatrical hit since opening on London's West End district last year (see "ABBA Musical To Hit London Stages In Spring 1999").

— David Basham

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ABBA's Billion-Dollar Rejection

by Julie Keller
Feb 2, 2000, 5:35 PM PT

"Mamma Mia" is right.

In perhaps the largest rejection in history, '70s Swedish pop group ABBA has turned down a $1 billion offer to reunite after 17 years.

"It's a hell of a lot of money to say no to, but we decided it wasn't for us," Benny Andersson, ex-leader of the four-member group, told Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet today.

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The staggering offer came from an American-British consortium that reportedly wanted the group to reunite for 100 concerts and cash in on a recent revival of several of their hits. (Currently, the teen band A-Teens has covered "Mamma Mia" and "Gimme Gimme," and a musical based on several songs is a hit in London's West End.)

Anderson and bandmate Bjorn Ulvaeus both say the recent reincarnation of their music has been successful because the group never reunited.

"We have never made a comeback," Ulvaeus told the paper. "Almost everyone else has. I think there's a message in that."

The group--Andersson, Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog--was founded in 1966 by Andersson. They shot to fame after winning a Eurovision song contest in 1974, endured years of internal conflict and officially disbanded in 1982 following the release of their final album, The Visitors.

Thanks to the smash success of hits like "Dancing Queen," "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "Money Money Money," ABBA was he most commercially successful pop group of the 1970s. Regardless, $1 billion is a lot of freaking money.

Even the Beatles, the biggest band ever, was only offered a paltry $30 million in the mid '70s to reunite (though they never did).

And successful as they inevitably are, the fleeting reunion tours of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers never break the billion-dollar mark.

The Eagles' 1995 Hell Freezes Over reunion tour raked in relatively measly $61 million, and the just-launched Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunion--the group's first tour as a quartet since 1974--would have to sell lots of tickets (from $39 to $200 a pop) to be in ABBA's league .

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Is it true that ABBA were offered US$1 billion for a reunion?

It’s hard to really say, now that the story has become so ingrained. When news of this offer first appeared in the Swedish press, it was reported as one billion Swedish kronor, a decidedly less amount than one billion US dollars (though still a hell of a lot of money). Once the story hit the international news services, it seems to have changed there to one billion dollars, though on some occasions it’s also appeared as one billion of whatever local currency the story is printed in, and has recently grown in some reports to amounts up to $2 billion.

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[Gatchinskiy]

OK, сдаюсь, против фактов не попрешь ... это была цифра на многолетний контракт ...