Obama concert tonight. Apparently stars have been asked to sing songs which are "appropriate to the occasion" rather than their own hits, including Sam Cooke's A Change is Gonna Come. I hope Mary J Blige or Beyonce aren't going to warble all the way through it. And please, please don't use it for the mass sing-a-long, everyone on stage finale, with them all trying to outdo each other. I can just visualise Bono and Bruce now.
We need a old timer... someone you might just about imagine being born by the river in a little tent. Stevie Wonder hasn't quite got the voice for it, and most of the soul legends are dead. Any suggestions? Smokey Robinson maybe, or is his voice a bit too light for it?
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And before anyone takes me to task. I think Stevie Wonder has a great voice - but not for something like this.
This is becoming a one woman post. Have just had a thought - Aretha!
Mary J Blige. Warbling?
Mary rolling up with her band and running through 'No More Drama' might well fit your "appropriate to the occasion" demands.
(http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_J-4dXS77V0&feature=related)
Better than all the ageing has-beens you're suggesting anyway. Aretha? Stevie? Aren't they all a bit Clinton era ?
I love Family Affair, but I remember JMB performing One with Bono at one of the big charity concerts (on TV, of course) and the histrionic wailing went on and on.
A Change is Gonna Come is about the 60s civil rights movement - so I reckon you need someone who was there. Can Aretha still sing? Yes she can!
P.S. Not 'my' demands.
All hail the new emperor.
Complete with a fun packed and warmongering cabinet just like the last one.
So how about some Clash numbers
I'm so bored with the USA
Charlie Don't Surf
I don't get the second one. Am I being dense?
PS Aretha is performing today!
Charlie don't surf is an anti american military intervention track on Sandinista
See when they started doing triple albums, I gave up.
True about 1 albums worth is dross but it also contains some classic tracks
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