Лондон. 29 ноября. Концерт памяти Джорджа. Среди участников: Маккартни, Ринго, Клэптон и Traveling Wilburys!

Paul spokesman Geoff Baker confirmed it [Tribute Concert] is being filmed but had no further details as to a broadcast if any or any future release.

Corvin, здравствуй. Ты видимо не получил моё сообщение. Очень жаль, а то завтра у нас концерт и я мог бы зачитать твои пожелания. Пока. Пётр.

Вот, что было исполнено -
I Want To Tell You - Jeff Lynne
If I Needed Someone - Eric Clapton/Jeff Lynne
Old Brown Shoe - Gary Brooker/Eric Clapton
Give Me Love - Jeff Lynne
Beware of Darkness - Eric Clapton
Here Comes The Sun - Joe Brown
Thats the Way it Goes - Joe Brown
Horse to the Water - Sam Brown vocals/Jools Holland piano
Taxman - Petty & Heartbreakers
I Need You - Petty
Handle With Care - Tom Petty/Jeff Lynne
Isnt It A Pity - Eric Clapton/Billy Preston
Photograph - Ringo
Honey Don't - Ringo
For You Blue - Paul
Something - Paul
All Things Must Pass - Paul/Jeff Lynne
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Clapton
My Sweet Lord - Billy Preston
Wah Wah - Jeff Lynne/EricClapton
See You in My Dreams (Joe Brown singing & on uke)

http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/911georgeallstartribute.html
Восемь фотографий с события -- и не только.

Сегодня по ТВС показывали сюжет о концерте. Показывали Вадима Малахова!

Вадим, congratulations от Битлз.ру!

Маленький сюжет был по ОРТ: кусочки с репетиций (?), интенрвью с Ринго, толпа перед залом.

By Phil Sutcliffe, Special to The Times


LONDON -- "This is a special night," Monty Python's Michael Palin told the 8,000 fans gathered Friday at Royal Albert Hall to pay tribute to George Harrison. But something about his delivery and his gold-lame-lapel tuxedo suggested that tear ducts should be kept on standby for the moment.

Solemnly, he continued. The "specialness" of this night, he said, was so "special" that its overwhelming specialness would render all other "special" nights, well, "unspecial." Because the bigness of the very "big" person they had come to honor was so "big" that, by comparison, the "biggest" of other "big" people's "bigness" would ...

And by then there wasn't a dry eye in the house, but from people falling about laughing rather than mourning the beloved former Beatle who died last Nov. 29 in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer.

Harrison would have loved it -- not to mention the spirited Python rendering of "The Lumberjack Song."

Harrison loved the comedy troupe's rude surrealism and, given that the profoundly spiritual Briton considered physical death a matter of little importance, he would surely have been delighted by his old pals from the "Life of Brian" movie days sticking it to the Grim Reaper.

So the tone was set for the all-star second half of the show: the least mawkish of valedictions and almost two hours of rock 'n' roll the Harrison way -- marshaled by Eric Clapton, rumored to have proved a hard taskmaster during the three weeks of rehearsals that produced a set masterfully combining discipline and inspiration.

The band -- including Harrison's son, Dhani, on guitar -- slammed through Beatles favorites written by Harrison, including "I Want to Tell You," "If I Needed Someone" and "Old Brown Shoe," with lead vocals shared by Clapton, Jeff Lynne and Procol Harum veteran Gary Brooker. Incense filled the air, and children of the '60s -- the kind who can afford all-for-charity ticket prices of up to $260 -- traveled back in time.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers took over for a while and did fine with "Taxman" and a brief visit to the Traveling Wilburys repertoire, but the occasion really gathered itself around the two surviving Beatles, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. They got standing ovations, and the songs they chose had their own special poignancy.

Starr, resplendent in an embroidered scarlet velvet jacket, reached back to Harrison's old favorite, Carl Perkins, and sang "Honey Don't." On the Beatles' recording, Starr hollers for the guitar break with a "Rock on, George, one time for Ringo!" This time it was just, "Come on, let's hear you."

McCartney, as he had done on his American tour this year, sang "Something," the Harrison composition once described by Frank Sinatra as McCartney and John Lennon's greatest love song.

McCartney accompanied himself on ukulele, Harrison's favorite instrument for an after-dinner sing-along. Then in came Clapton and the band with the majestic lines of the original version.

The rock show closed with modesty and charm. Dhani Harrison thanked all the musicians -- "all my dad's friends." McCartney said Harrison's widow, Olivia, had just told him that Dhani so resembled his father that "it looks like George stayed young and the rest of us got old."

Finally, with the entire cast on stage, an old friend of Harrison's, veteran British guitarist Joe Brown, picked up the ukulele and, very quietly, sang "I'll See You in My Dreams."

"It's a favorite of George's and it's designed to send you home with a smile on your face and a little bit of love in your heart," he said.

While Brown sang, Olivia Harrison turned to her son and hugged him. And as the band members filed off, McCartney, who had never been closer than 20 yards to Starr on stage, waited in the wings for the drummer, then hugged and kissed him.

But the most graceful and lingering farewell may have rested with Ravi Shankar. The first section of the tribute was devoted to music he had composed in memory of Harrison, who, he said, had become "like a son to me."

Shankar's daughter Anoushka played a sitar raga, then conducted a 25-strong Indian group in a piece of dazzling complexity called "Arpan" -- a performance that an English audience might have had no chance of enjoying if not for Harrison's opening its ears to that musical culture.

The final lines of Shankar's lyrics say: "He gave so many songs to this world / We are remembering that great soul / And we salute him with love and respect."

Joe Brown, Jools Holland, Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney, Billy Preston, Tom Petty , Ringo Starr, Ron Blair, Sam Brown, Dave Bronze, Gary Brooker, Mike Campebll, Jim Capaldi, Phil Capaldi, Ray Cooper, Steve Ferrone, Neil R. Gauntlett, Dhani Harrison, Jim Horn, Jim Keltner, Katie Kissoon, Albert Lee, Andy Fairweather-Low, Mark Mann, Tessa Niles, Dave "Rico" Nilo, Emil Richards, Tom Scott, Henry Spinetta, Chris Stainton, Benmont Tench, Scott Thurston, Klaus Voormann.

Special guests - Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones

http://www.rexfeatures.com/cgi-bin/r2news0?t=397836&m=2&z=0
"Это фотографии

Еще один сайт с ревью и эксклюзивными фото
http://www.geocities.com/editorofbrandx/rahtrib.html

Газета Спорт-Экспресс(вчерашний номер)удостоила Пола Маккартни своим вниманием на первой полосе в связи с переносом его концерта в Париже (!)на более позднее время из-за финала кубка Девиса.
А наш народ молчит про Парижский концерт Макки...

А что никто не слышал несколько песен, переданных после битловского канала ? Это было около 4 утра. Песни исполнялись замечательно, но потрясли овации. Таких жарких (а всего-то 8 тысяч народу) и, главное, продолжительных апплодисментов и не видел ни на каком концерте.

Да,сэт лист конечно чумовой!!!!!!!
Господи,как же повезло Вадику Малахову и компании,которым посчастливилось побывать на таком обалденном концерте.Я им просто так завидую,а именно завидую в хорошем смысле этого слова.Такие люди собрались вместена одной сцене-это просто супер!!!!!!!!
Безусловно такой концерт надо конечно же издавать на видео,аудио и DVD!!!!!!!!

Товарищи!
Ну, можно, сказать, свершилось...
Вот на одном клэптоновском сайте раскопал мп3 и видео, а также репетиции.
Работают ссылки - не работают - хз. Пробуйте на свой страх и риск.
http://mainlineflorida.free.fr/newsang.htm - там ниже искать статейку и mp3.
Кто скачает быстро - напишите - стоит качать или нет, а то у меня нет тормозной. Да и сам я не ангел...

Рад за Вадима, с которым я хорошо знаком, мы собираемся с ним, а также вместе с Сергеей махнуть на очередной битл-дей в Ливерпуль в августе на следующий год. Надо ему позвонить и допросить его поподробнее, потому что писать он никогда и ничего не хочет: такой уж у него ленивый характер.

To:Bluesman
Spasibo ,za ssilku.
Proslushat konechno interesno,v plane informacii.Zapisivalos javno iz zala.
McCartney ,chuvstvuetsia ne v svoe tarelke.
Something -nachalo za upokoj,konec za zdravie,polozhenie klasno ispravil Clapton.A ih duet vne vsiakoj kritiki.Ocen zdorovo.
Konechno ,trudno sudit po 4 pesniam.
For you blue - bolee standartna,mozhet dazhe ne interesna.
Photograph ,Ringo -eshio bolee standartna,concertnoe ispolnenie speta i perepeta sto raz na ego live albomah.
Handle with care-interesna ,kak produkt ostavshihsia Wilburys.
Vot pervoe vpechatlenie,a v celom nado slushat ,smotret concert polnost'ju.

Делаю copy-paste из закрытой темы:
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Proman:

Вот увидел эту ссылку на www.pythonline.com:
http://www.geocities.com/editorofbrandx/rahtrib.html
И вот здесь есть ещё фото с концерта:
http://www.rexfeatures.com/cgi-bin/r2news0?s=397836S&m=3

На ней 4 члена Monty Python (Michal Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam и Eric Idle) + Carol Cleveland и Tom Hanks поют "The Lamberjack's song" :).

ДЕДУШКА:

Не забывайте, что там еще был Neil Innes!
А так приятно..И вобще это прекрасный повод поговорить о Monty Python.

Официальный пресс-релиз.CONCERT FOR GEORGE
November 29, 2002
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
The Concert for George was held on Friday, November 29th at London's Royal Albert Hall. The concert was organised by Olivia Harrison and Eric Clapton. Proceeds from the concert will be donated to the Material World Foundation.

George Harrison established the foundation in 1973, the year he released the album "Living in the Material World." "George gave the song royalties from that album to the foundation in order to allow people to explore other philosophies and cultures," Olivia Harrison said.

The following artists appeared at the Royal Albert Hall: Eric Clapton, Joe Brown, Jools Holland with Sam Brown, Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney, Billy Preston, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Ravi Shankar with Anoushka Shankar, and Ringo Starr.

"It was easy to pick the people for the show," Eric Clapton said. "A definite group of people were always involved in George's life at one stage or another."

The show was Eric's and Olivia's idea to start with," Jeff Lynne explained. "And I feel honoured to be among them."

The main backing band was led by Eric Clapton and featured:
Jeff Lynne, Andy Fairweather-Low, Albert Lee, Marc Mann and Dhani Harrison on guitars, Jim Keltner and Henry Spinetti on drums; percussionist Ray Cooper; Christ Stainton and Gary Brooker on keyboards; Jim Horn and Tom Scott on horns; Dave Bronze on bass; Katie Kisson and Tessa Niles on backing vocals.

Additional musicians include Jim Capaldi and Klaus Voormann.

The concert was performed in two halves: Eric Clapton introduced the evening. This was followed by an original composition for George by Ravi Shankar performed by a 40 member Indian and Western Orchestra, including Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and conducted by Anoushka Shankar. During this segment, they were joined by Jeff Lynne on guitar and vocals and Eric Clapton on backing vocals for "Inner Light." Ravi also spoke about George.

Former Monty Python members Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin started the second half performing the classics "Sit on My Face" and "The Lumberjack Song." This was followed by:


"I Want To Tell You" performed by Jeff Lynne and the house band.

"If I Needed Someone" performed by Jeff Lynne, Eric Clapton, Andy Fairweather-Low and the house band.

"Old Brown Shoe" performed by Gary Brooker and the house band.

"Give Me Love" performed by Jeff Lynne, Andy Fairweather Low and the house band.

"Beware of Darkness" performed by Eric Clapton and the house band.
"Here Comes the Sun" performed by Joe Brown and Andy Fairweather-Low

"That's the Way It Goes" performed by Joe Brown and Andy Fairweather-Low

"Horse To Water" performed by Jools Holland, Sam Brown and the house band

"Taxman" performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

"I Need You" performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

"Handle With Care" performed by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne

"Isn't It a Pity" performed by Eric Clapton, Billy Preston and the house band

"Photograph" performed by Ringo Starr and the house band

"Honey Don't" performed by Ringo Starr and the house band

"For You Blue" performed by Paul McCartney and the house band

"Something" performed by Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne and the house band

"All Things Must Pass" performed by Paul McCartney and the house band

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" performed by Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney

"My Sweet Lord" performed by Billy Preston and the house band

"Wah Wah" performed by the full ensemble of participating musicians

"See You In My Dreams," the final farewell to George, performed by Joe Brown and featuring the entire ensemble.