Many tug at your emotions and dazzle your senses. Over time these videos have become more and more sophisticated, almost to the point of being miniature feature films. And we used to do that walk down the club floor. I realize that shows my age but, hey, who cares? Who can forget the epic Adam Ant video Prince Charming starring, among others, Diana Dors? Pure theater of course. I remember when music videos first became popular and we started to see them regularly on television. For example, I had a fabulous night in Perugia a few years ago, at an open air Santana concert with fireworks being let off in the background and bats flying overhead! The Advent Of Music Videos I do go to some during the Umbria Jazz and Trasimeno Blues festivals.
These days I live up a mountain in Central Italy so music concerts are not so easily available throughout the year without travelling a distance. I danced in the aisles to Chic, Status Quo and Mud. I ‘boo-ed’ with the best of them when the band Sparks left the stage with their concert finished after only 35 minutes. I remember sitting with tears streaming down my face at a Stevie Wonder concert. When I was young and lived in the UK I went to a lot of rock and pop concerts. Previous articles have looked at messages within music and combining old with new music genres.
#Raw power performance series#
In the third of a series of articles on aspects of music, I look at the raw power of a live performance.
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