So You Wanna Book a Rock 'n' Roll Star? (Bush's tax cuts at work)

[hadrons]

If you're a hard-core rock fan and have a net worth of nine figures or more you may not have to tune into your iPod when you next want to listen to your favorite band. For the right amount of money you can hire them to play in your own backyard.

That's more or less what British retail baron Philip Green did when he coaxed the soon-to-disband R&B trio Destiny's Child to croon at his 13-year-old son's Bar Mitzvah. Never mind that the three-day soirée on the French Riviera, which was estimated to have cost around $7.4 million, included putting up 200 guests at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat. Or that Green père had previously been serenaded at his own $9 million 50th-birthday bash by Tom Jones and Rod Stewart.Or, for that matter, that the High Street retailer, whose current fortune Forbes estimates at $6.3 billion, apparently doesn't mind toasting his son's coming-of-age with music generally preferred by 13-year-old girls.


Go to Forbes.com to view a slideshow of artists happy to do private gigs (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/weekend/article/fo/entertainment/rock/article/SIG=12hlda24s/*http://www.forbes.com/2005/06/16/cx_ns_05celeb_0616featslide.html?partner=yahoo)


What is really interesting about the Green episode to any die-hard fan of popular music is that it proves the possibility of getting a bonafide super-group to play at a private party. Why, you can practically hear metal heads across the land swooning, "Whoa--maybe I can get Metallica to crank it up at my backyard barbecue!!!"

While data on such performances is hard to come by, there's no denying that private gigs--both corporate and personal--have lately become a ready revenue stream for music entertainers of all stripes. Gone are the days when faded acts such as The O'Jays and Kool and the Gang were the biggest names on the circuit. Everyone from Elton John to Madonna has put in time at private gigs--for the right price.

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http://biz.yahoo.com/weekend/rock_1.html

well, Bush tax cuts have created jobs ... for mutli-millionaire pop/rock star :eyes:

[oscar111]

1. Example here in US? this one, brit. == link have US cases?

short on time to read links

anyone able to post a re detailing a US case as outrageous as the one in OP?

[oscar111]

2. 9 million starving worldwide, and this is all he can think of to spend on?

good argument for tax reform

PS ...12 million hungry right in the US. Cost to end , 12 billion.

cost to end US homelessness... 4 billion

bush taxcuts.. total 35O billion plus a few.

roll back those cuts, and easily end hunger and homelessness {total needed is 16 billion}

[MrSlayer]

3. Some guys I know had Slayer play their party for 70 grand.

You might have seen it on Viva La Bam on MTV. One of my friends goes snowboarding with the guys on that show. Pretty cool.