Queen live before Freddie Mercury died.
Paul Simon in Africa with the kickass band Kalahari and featuring exiled Hugh Masekela on the flugelhorn and cornet (of "I Can Dig It, She Can Dig It, He Can Dig It" fame from the 1960's song..."Grazin In The Grass"). Musicians of note...Miriam Makeba...Ray Phiri.....Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Cat Stevens (his original name was Steven Demetre Georgiou) on his Earth Tour in 1976 before he... almost drowned after getting caught in a rip-tide off of Malibu while surfing...got off of drugs...changed his name again...to Yusuf Islam this time...became a Muslim and went underground...not picking up a guitar for over 20 years...only to emerge getting arrested as a suspected terrorist on an airplane after 9-11...
Video 1 has 2 songs
"Miles From Nowhere" (dedicated to the residents of Rhinelander, Wisconsin)
"Father & Son" (timeless song...for those of you born after 1970 and have no clue who this guy is...you have no clue...just kidding...the song is a conversation between a father & son...hence the name..."Father & Son")
Video 2 "Peace Train" (written during the Vietnam War..sung here after the war by a soon to be Muslim...hopefully this song can do it's magic by leading to peace in the Middle East, the end of Islamic Extremism...and the successful and peaceful conclusion to the War in Iraq) Too bad a few extremists have hijacked a peacful culture and religion...Next week...."We Are The World". |