Do me a favor, let's hold off on that congressional medal for Stevie Wonder for giving a "free" concert in Central Park.
To hear the local news reports this day, one might surmise that the aforementioned Mister wonder had found a cure for penicillin......when in fact. He used taxpayer dollars and central park to promote his upcoming tour ( Tix for that are not free).
He played for 40 minutes and talked about his upcoming shows.....he pulled the same stunt in Washington and filthadelphia earlier in the day......why not Baltimore ( where's dat?)
Every station in the tristate area picked up the story and ran clips from the concert.....he got more air time today than when he was a geust on the Bob Hope Christmas special.............. How much coverage would a traditional press conference have received ?
So he was very smart, very shrewd business and he probably enjoyed playing......I appluad that.........but he's not mother Theresa bringing free music to the ghetto.....si let's give it a rest.
Incidentally..... His new wife was in attendance...... Maron Ami.......have you ever seen this broad ? ? ?
Neither has he.
2 comments:
does anyone remember the reggie jackson quote about 2 fastball pitchers in the 70's...I remember the quote, I just don't remember the names of the 2 pitchers...he said:
"Blind people would pay to hear x and x pitch in a game".
I found it...was about Tom Seaver...reggie said blind people would pay to hear seaver pitch...I think you had some comments about tom terrific a few posts ago...the mets let him go...unforgivable...
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