The original Tusk LP did not give proper credit to UNICEF, and the box 25 Years: The Chain still had the publishing wrong, but the 2004 2-CD set (and I assume the 2015 set) finally got it right. Instead, Stevie Nicks volunteered to give the unreleased, yet appropriately titled, "Beautiful Child" to the cause.
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No one could have anticipated the reissue craze and the growth of oldies radio that made his contribution of "Maggie May" much more valuable later than it was in 1979.įleetwood Mac was asked to be a part of the event, but the band declined. Instead, he contributed an older song widely considered past its sell-by date. Rod Stewart sang his then-current hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" but was widely criticized when it was discovered that he didn't donate that song. But not everything was as it seemed: The impression was that the performers "gave away" the song they were singing that night, but that wasn't always true. The two most noteworthy songs assigned to Music For UNICEF were "Too Much Heaven" by the Bee Gees and "Chiquitita" by ABBA. The event took place on January 9, 1979, and aired worldwide a day later.Īs part of this event, each of the performers agreed to assign the copyright to one of their songs to Music For UNICEF as a lasting contribution. In January 1979, to celebrate the International Year of the Child, Robert Stigwood, the Bee Gees, and David Frost organized a concert at the United Nations building to benefit UNICEF. Hopefully they’ve kept some energy in the can to do it all again tonight."Beautiful Child" was the first song I heard about for the project that eventually became Tusk, though I didn't actually hear it until later.
The night closes with the chorus of Don’t Stop. Mosshart decides to mount a guitarist, falls off his shoulders and somehow recovers. In the final throes, everyone winds up onstage, drunk on Jamesons, forgetting the lines to The Chain – the ultimate testament to Stevie, Christine, Mick, John and Lindsey. Carly Rae Jepsen is so keen to be a part of it, she’s agreed to open with Hold Me early enough to leave, drive to LAX and get there in time to catch a plane. Everyone tonight is on a mission to have fun and do good charity. The stone-cold highlight is Alison Mosshart hollering Dreams into the crowd while beaming because instead of her usual Kills partner Jamie Hince, she’s got Mark Ronson up here playing guitar. Courtney Love belts out Silver Springs in the vein of Hole’s Live Through This. Sarah Silverman offers to play “a deep-cut ballad” then launches into a bar mitzvah version of Go Your Own Way. The long-lost but apparently not forgotten KT Tunstall takes a stab at You Make Lovin’ Fun in silver pants and white leather boots. “When you listen to this fucking song in a bar or in the fucking car, you’re the best fucking singer in the world!” Proceedings start to heat up with Dead Sara singer Emily Armstrong’s crowd-assisted rendition of Edge of Seventeen, which – in the greatest possible way – reminds of Jack Black’s film-stealing scene in School of Rock performing that song in a diner to Joan Cusack. The Pierces, performing here together for the last time, do a rendition of Say You Love Me in perfect shikse Haim harmony Australian pop singer Mereki is joined by George Harrison’s guitarist son Danny to rock Landslide in an immaculate white trouser suit Z Berg of the band Phases twirls and throws out Stevie Nicks’s bird-in-flight arms while re-capturing Everywhere. But it’s the ladies who bring the real magic – and, more often than not, while barefoot. The array of performers traverse the span of the Mac’s history – from a re-tooling of Peter Green’s Black Magic Woman that’s dripping in riffs to a hillbilly steel guitar take on Never Going Back Again by the Jamestown Revival. Tonight’s feast proves two things: that the Mac’s consistent delivery of hit choruses doused in dramatic tension can form the backbone of a great karaoke night, and that the lack of female headliners at music festivals wouldn’t be an issue if more festivals had a Fleetwood Mac theme. As singer/actor Juliette Lewis left the stage after a rendition of Stevie Nicks’ Stand Back (in a yellow jumpsuit, no less), the next words uttered by the evening’s MC were: “And now – Joanna Newsom!” Watching the latter sing Beautiful Child, channeling Kate Bush at a piano mere seconds after Lewis’s acrobatic Mick Jagger high-kicks, proves that there is neither rhyme nor reason to the strange catnip quality of Fleetwood Mac.
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