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RE: One Love Manchester On Spotify

Bob,

Thank you for writing about the music. But writing about the music, without commenting on the artist, artists and executives who made this happen leaves out a huge part of the story. And the story is about how artists and our industry can rally together in times of need, where music is the only medicine, the only salve, the only chain to link us all together and remind us of our humanity , not our differences.

This event started with a brave, committed, shaken but resolved, empowered young woman named Ariana Grande, who pulled on every ounce of compassion, soul and strength to do this. That strength was shored up by the outpouring of love and support from every artist in our industry who called and wrote to her, artists from every genre, age and country. Imploring her to stay strong. From that compassion and strength came her voice , which said I have to go back to Manchester, before I go back on the road.....

A cavalry of great industry execs then came together, led by a vision that Ariana and Scooter Braun had. Scooter called in the everyone on the Ariana team and everyone he had a relationship with to produce an amazing show. Live Nation's David Zedeck , Dennis Desmond, great promoters Simon Moran, and Melvin Benn called on every member of their teams and with the help of a number of local authorities, an incredible event came together in 7 days. No egos, no credits, no " look what I did". Their incredible unsung heroes, Ari's road team lead by Roshad Ismail and Omar worked 7 days straight with no sleep, her band worked nonstop for 5 days, no sleep to learn all the artists music flawlessly. Huge thanks you and props should go to all of them!!!

But in the end, it is about 3 groups of people, the City of Manchester fans; the incredible artists who participated, and Ariana Grande. The pure emotion, the honest connection, the tears, the smiles , the energy, the pure power of music are hard to put into words. I could single out every artist, they were all amazing in their own ways...( I hope people will go on line and watch each clip)...

Three moments defined the day.....Ariana singing with the children's choir and that young girl holding on to Ari for life itself, the police officer dancing with a group of children.....and Ariana singing "somewhere over the rainbow". In that moment, we all got to travel to that magical place that only music can take you.

An amazing effort, that made me so proud of our industry.... proud of the selflessness of great and caring artists; and so proud of an amazing 23 year old woman who found strength beyond her years to do her part to change the world.

Rob Light

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From: Robert Kyncl
Re: One Love Manchester On Spotify

Bob -
FYI - YouTube was there for Scooter and Scott from the second they came up with it. And the labels/pubs were helpful and supportive. Everyone came together to champion the moment...including here, in America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9yak899MUs :)

They, and the artists, did a wonderful thing, as you wrote.

R

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From: BERTON AVERRE
Subject: Re: Chris Stein Mailbag

Bob, it's funny what Chris Stein said, because the first time our band went to New York, we visited Mike in the studio with Blondie. And the one thing I remember is Jimmy Destri saying the two things he had to thank Mike for was a healthy bank account and a permanent ringing in his ear.

Mike was a blast to work with. Very happy to hear he's doing well.

P.S. I'm trying to remember if the EMT 250 was the unit we called R2D2.

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From: Steve Lukather
Subject: Re: June 1970 Playlist

ALL This music changed my life and I played most of these songs in bands when I was a kid of 12-13.
All I cared about was music.
When I was a kid and I fucked up in school or whatever... my parents took away my guitar and use of the record player.
I asked for the beating instead!
It was a different era...

I remember clearly Picking up the needle of my parents record player To learn all Erics parts and solos.. not to mention all the rest of these timeless gems. Some heavy lessons there!
This was not music .. this was soul Food!
And .. I learned all of the Cream solos too!
Some things will last forever.
Thanks Eric and ...Thank you to every musician on every single one of these records for without you I would have never dreamed one day I would have a career in music thanks to the lessons learned dissecting these records and and learning from all these artists... real ones !!

Respect

Luke

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Re: June 1970 Playlist

Bob
We had a number one in that exact month. With a list that long, not even worth a mention?
Robb Royer

(Note: "Make It With You" was released in June, but didn't go to number one until August, I loved it back then, but today I prefer Bread's "Diary."


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