Stones-led concert on track for 430,000 fans
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The Toronto concert headlined by the Rolling Stones for the benefit of healthcare worked in the only North American city to suffer significant deaths due to this year’s SARS outbreak has expanded to a 9 1/2 hour affair, drawing an expected 430,000 ticketholders. The massive festival will culminated in a peformance by the Stones, which Canadian networks CBC and MuchMusic plan to broadcast in part.
More at the Toronto Sun
The Toronto concert headlined by the Rolling Stones for the benefit of healthcare worked in the only North American city to suffer significant deaths due to this year’s SARS outbreak has expanded to a 9 1/2 hour affair, drawing an expected 430,000 ticketholders. The massive festival will culminated in a peformance by the Stones, which Canadian networks CBC and MuchMusic plan to broadcast in part.
More at the Toronto Sun
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Back injury cited in Boston cancellations
Boston leader Tom Scholz reportedly suffered a back injury this week, forcing the band to cancel shows in Salt Lake City, Utah and Nampa, Idaho on their tour in support of “Corporate America.” A Saturday (7/26) show in Portland was still scheduled at press time.
Tour updates at Boston.org
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Elliott, Timberlake lead MTV Video Awards nominees
Missy “Midemeanor” Elliott and Justin Timberlake lead the pack of nominees in the running for 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, with eight and seven nominations, respectively. Johnny Cash, with six nominations for his stark rendition of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt,” issued a statement. “I am overwhelmed by this great honor. I thank you all for thinking of me,” Cash said. “It’s been 48 years since I cut my first record and it’s nice that people are still digging them up.”
More at liveDaily.com
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RIAA lawsuit “hit list” emerging
TechTV has listed the email aliases of some of the initial targets of RIAA lawsuits, available via public records. The list, previewed on the TechTV website, is just a portion of the hundreds of file swappers currently being subpoena’d for offering large numbers of files for sharing via Kazaa and other trading services. The TechTV report notes that one of the first to be served notice by the RIAA has already settled his case out of court for $12,000.
More at TechTV.com