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Re: Wahsington benefit



Keets/Lela,

Your on a roll!
Keep it coming...

Dave...

--- thewho rocks <leb905@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Interesting development in the Washington show. 
> Matt Kent's news item
> on this seems to have disappeared, BTW.  Does
> anybody know what that
> could be about?
> 
> LB
> 
> 
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,36367,00.html
> 
> Jagger Exits Charity Show as Jacko Takes Over
> 
>  Somehow, the United We Stand benefit scheduled for
> Oct. 21 in
> Washington D.C. has been renamed. It's now called
> United We Stand What
> More Can I Give. That's a mouthful isn't it?
> 
> The reason for the change: Michael Jackson, as I
> reported here
> exclusively two days ago, has pushed his way into
> the show and gotten
> first billing. You didn't think the self-proclaimed
> King of Pop was
> going to be included alphabetically didya? Or take
> second billing to
> someone else?
> 
> And guess who's out of the Washington concert
> because of that? Mick
> Jagger.
> 
> Jagger's name, which had been announced Oct. 9 as
> part of the show, is
> now gone, gone, gone. The Rolling Stone had been
> associated with the
> Washington charity event until yesterday when a
> press release went out
> with all the names of the participants. The only one
> specifically
> missing from the roster was Jagger. He is clearly
> not going to be
> Jackson's Beast of Burden.
> 
> Jackson has not only jumped to first billing, but
> he's also had the
> show renamed to reflect the anthem he's recording
> with 'N Sync and the
> Backstreet Boys on Oct. 20 in Orlando. As I told you
> Wednesday, Jackson
> has secured President Bush's blessing to make "What
> More Can I Give?"
> the official song of the World Trade Center/Pentagon
> disaster.
> 
> McDonald's will sell the CD single for $2.99 with
> its apple pies and
> Egg McMuffins.
> 
> "What More Can I Give?" was not written specifically
> for this disaster,
> however. Jackson wrote it at least two years ago,
> and it wasn't
> considered good enough to include on his soon to be
> released album,
> "Invincible." It was going to be used next February
> for another charity
> until the Sept. 11 disasters.
> 
> Jagger's decision to pull out of the Washington show
> is extra
> interesting since he and Jackson once released a
> duet together in the
> 1980s called "State of Shock." Jagger will appear
> however at the New
> York benefit organized by Miramax Films and VH-1 on
> Saturday, Oct. 20
> at Madison Square Garden. That's the benefit which
> Paul McCartney will
> headline.  Jackson was not welcome at that event
> since McCartney
> stopped speaking to him after Jackson bought the
> Beatles' songwriting
> catalog and publishing rights in 1985. 
> 
> How much anger does McCartney have for Jackson? On
> Wingspan, his
> recent greatest hits collection, McCartney omitted
> the two No. 1
> singles he had with Jackson, "Say Say Say" and "The
> Girl Is Mine."
> 
> Tickets for United We Stand etc go on sale today
> through Ticketmaster
> or at www.cc.com.
> 
> 
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