"This is probably the best song ever written and here’s the best singer in
the world, Mr. Richard Ashcroft…"<\/p>\n
Chris Martin<\/p>\n
Now THIS is IT!!<\/p>\n
This was the performance there was the most scuttlebutt about, the one that
everybody was talking about, the unexpected moment, and it DELIVERS!<\/p>\n
I mean is Richard Ashcroft a star in YOUR book?\u00c2\u00a0 With his one big hit?\u00c2\u00a0 But
when this lanky dude strides on stage, you feel the charisma of Jim Morrison.\u00c2\u00a0
It’s daytime, which saps the energy, the specialness of seemingly ALL rock and
roll.\u00c2\u00a0 But, suddenly, your heart starts to pulse, your adrenaline starts to
pump, you’re in heavy ANTICIPATION!\u00c2\u00a0 And then Richard walks to the front of the
stage and starts thrusting his arm in the air and you suddenly FEEL IT!\u00c2\u00a0 THIS
IS ROCK AND ROLL!!!<\/p>\n
God, with this introduction, playing as a sideman, Chris Martin rehabilitates
himself.\u00c2\u00a0 Suddenly, instead of being a poser, the dude in the magazines with
the movie star wife, he’s suddenly a FAN!\u00c2\u00a0 And that’s what we all are.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s
the music that counts, not the PERSONALITIES!<\/p>\n
And then, Richard starts to SING!<\/p>\n
THIS is why the business is tanking in the U.S.\u00c2\u00a0 Nobody can PLAY, nobody can
SING!<\/p>\n
Oh, that’s an overstatement.\u00c2\u00a0 But, even though we expect Ashlee and Britney
to lip-synch, we also expect major stars to sing to track, to have backup
singers covering up their mistakes, their flaws.\u00c2\u00a0 But this dude, who’s been out of the spotlight for YEARS, opens his mouth and this sound starts to waft over
the hundreds of thousands in attendance and it’s positively MESMERIZING!\u00c2\u00a0 He sounds JUST AS GOOD AS THE RECORD!!!<\/p>\n
This is the Live Aid moment we’ve been waiting for.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the experience.\u00c2\u00a0
Pure MAGIC!<\/p>\n
The baton has been passed.\u00c2\u00a0 From commercial-laden MTV to the WEB!\u00c2\u00a0 Where you get it how you want it when you want it.<\/p>\n