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Concert For New York CD review



>From Toronto Sun at:
http://www.canoe.ca/JamAlbumsV/various_concert_nyc-sun.html

By Jane Stevenson

Not everyone who sang at the televised, five-hour-plus
show at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 20 is on this
double CD. Marc Anthony, Macy Gray and Janet Jackson
are missing in action. 

Unfortunately still present is Adam Sandler's Operaman
character, who rails on for more than five minutes
and, in what proves to be the album's strangest segue,
is followed by the Backstreet Boys' Quit Playing Games
(With My Heart). 

On the plus side, they kept the two performances by
David Bowie, who deftly opened the show sitting
cross-legged on the floor of the stage in front of a
music box and singing Paul Simon's America. 

"I'd particularly like to say hello to the folks from
my local ladder," says Bowie in his wonderful East
London accent. 

Bowie, who follows up with Heroes, is only matched in
intensity by fellow Brits Mick Jagger and Keith
Richards (Miss You, Salt Of The Earth), and then
surpassed by The Who (Who Are You, Baba O'Reilly,
Won't Get Fooled Again), who provide what is
unquestionably the album's standout set. 

New York City firefighter Mike Moran delivers an
impassioned speech that ends with: "Osama bin Laden,
you can kiss my royal Irish ass!" 

Also good are Melissa Etheridge (Come To My Window,
Born To Run), James Taylor (Fire And Rain, Up On The
Roof) and Paul McCartney (Yesterday, Let It Be). 

Proceeds go to the Robin Hood Relief Fund for those
affected by the World Trade Center attacks.

-Brian in Atlanta
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