More than one and a half million people went to see Madonna at Copacabana last weekend, where my peer – she looks better than me, I sing better – ended her concert tour on the beach of Rio de Janeiro. This puts her in seventh place on the list of concerts that had the most non-paying spectators of all time.
It would also be strange to pay for something like that, it was miserably hot and the sound amplification only reached a few hundred meters, making Madge’s singing sound like the squeaking of a drowning mouse. On the video screens no one could see the sex gem tinted dance parts in which Madonna still excels were followed closely because a follow spot had failed, and after fifteen minutes all mobile pissins already full, which meant that 178,000 people had to wet their pants during the encores because they could no longer hold their urine. In the mud puddle that caused, 12,987 people lost their toe slings – these are police figures so there could have been many more.
Someone who went to get pints and a white wine for his mates spent seven and a half hours on the road to a beer stall, only to find that there was no white wine left upon arrival and he had forgotten to ask whether red was good too. after which, in desperation, he threw himself backwards from the gigantic statue of Christ that overlooks the picturesque beach. Three people were driven half a meter into the loose beach sand as a result of the fall, which was a strange sight, but fortunately everyone survived their fall. And the atmosphere remained good, they say, because they are Brazilians and they can take a beating.
Four of the ten most attended concerts of all time took place on the same beach. Rod Stewart tops that list with three and a half million attendees at a New Year’s concert in 1994, with Jean-Michel Jarre in second place. At least if one can believe the figures, because you never know with those French.
He appears no less than three times on that list, with massively attended concerts in Moscow, Paris and Houston. Millions of people falling into a trance by rarefied music coming from a battery of synthesizers programmed in advance: it is a great achievement, but it disappears completely into nothing when you know that Jarre once had relationships with Charlotte Rampling and Isabelle Adjani, although not at the same time , because there are limits, even for those French. Respect Jean-Mi!
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