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Sábado, 16 de septiembre de 2006
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Willie Williams es una de las personalides nombradas en la Revista Time, acerca de innovadores que forjan el futuro, en el terreno de la iluminacion y como nos dan nuevas formas de ver y escuchar.
A PLACE CALLED VERTIGO
Willie Williams never intended to change the way people watch rock concerts. Growing up in the late ’70s, all he really wanted was to get out of Sheffield, England. “So I ran away to London to join the circus,” says Williams, “and the circus at that time was punk rock.” Punk rock had a visual aesthetic, but it started and ended with the pierceable parts of its players’ bodies. At 19, Williams, whose love of music trumped his aptitude for it, cozied up to his favorite band, Stiff Little Fingers, and talked the group into letting him design its stage show. When the Fingers broke up in 1982, he called his new favorite band. “They happened to be named U2.”
Ever since, Williams, 46, has moved with U2 from clubs to arenas to stadiums, revolutionizing concert visuals at every step. From the seven Trabants (compact cars built in East Germany) he hung from the rafters of U2′s early ’90s Zoo TV tour to the giant beaded LED curtains of the recent Vertigo shows, he has turned concrete caverns into spaces that drip with mood. And when the music starts, Williams, who pioneered the integration of video and light into a single element, turns the sets into an extravaganza that enhances but never competes with the sound.
In addition to his rock work, Williams has taken on the Kronos Quartet (“The equipment can’t be merely quiet, it has to be silent”) and is brainstorming ways to light the revitalized South Bank Centre on the Thames. But he still gets his greatest thrill watching people watch his work. When Williams went to a Vertigo concert with artist Julian Opie, whose minimalist figures were incorporated into the show’s visuals, Opie couldn’t disguise his envy. “No one,” he said, “ever applauds at an art gallery.” –By Josh Tyrangiel
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U2 Star met recovering tenor in Pesaro (ANSA) – Rome, August 23 – Irish rock legend Bono paid a flying visit this week to his old friend Luciano Pavarotti, who is convalescing after undergoing surgery for pancreas cancer in July. The U2 lead singer called in on the tenor at his villa at Colle San Bartolo near Pesaro on Monday, but the visit was kept secret until Wednesday. Bono and Pavarotti have been good friends for over 10 years and the duo have performed together for good causes many times .
They first sang together at the 1995 Pavarotti and Friends gig to raise money for victims of the war in Bosnia .
Pavarotti also sang on the U2 hit Miss Sarajevo .
He performed this track with U2 at the famous Sarajevo concert in September 1997 – the first gig by a major band in the city after the war . continuar
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En entrevista para la television de Bosnia, Bono comento que U2 esta preparando un nuevo album para ser lanzado a la venta en 2007.
“I would like to think that we’re doing our best work now. We’re about to make a new album for next year, and it’s the most important thing. We like being in a room with each other. We like playing. Something happens when we play, we have some sort of chemistry. And Edge, right now, is on fire. He’s really rockin’. He’s playing guitar like I’ve never seen him playing guitar. So, I like to think that the best is yet to come.”