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Foreigner’s Mick Jones, who played one song — "I Want to Know What Love Is" — with a full band and girls’ choir as a tribute to Ertegun.
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Brave dude ... playing that crud on the same stage Zep performed on.
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In fact, Warner Music had its own private party in competition with the official after party and its own artists. These included execs from Rhino Records, which now administers Atlantic’s Ertegun-created catalog that includes Moore, Sledge, King and Burke. Unbelievable, no?
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Why so much in various articles about the industry execs? Do readers care? It's like the current fashion for newscasters to celebrate themselves, usually at the expense of reporting actual news.
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A strange song selection combined with iffy audio dynamics didn’t help. "In My Time of Dying" and "Your Life" were a little obscure and too long for a crowd packed frighteningly like sardines onto the floor of an arena. To use the vernacular, it was a buzz kill.
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Couldn't have been any more of a buzz kill than the two or three paragraphs in this article about industry execs & their wives & families.
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It may have been a coincidence, but in the audience was Gary Arnold, the senior entertainment officer of Best Buy, the huge American electronics chain. It was Best Buy and Arnold who underwrote the Police tour and saw hugely positive results. My guess is he’s gonna have a whole lotta love for Zeppelin when they’re ready to tour, as well.
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Some nobody gets the last graph? Who cares? Is that the "moral" of the tale?