[BON]GOING to The World Cup

[Rayan]

Will Tony Levin get the call ?
Will a BONGO5 kickoff The World Cup ?

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"UK singer Peter Gabriel will be the musical director of next year's World Cup opening ceremony in Berlin ...

Asked why he had signed up, Gabriel joked: "It's the same attraction for a musician as for a footballer - money, sex and drugs.""

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4489586.stm
BBCNews Last Updated: Thursday, 1 December 2005, 16:40 GMT
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"PETER GABRIEL IN ONE MINUTE
* One of the first rock musicians to realize the potential of the Fairlight CM sampler
* In 1982 he organized the first ever WOMAD (World Of Music And Dance) Festival
* He's good mates with Senegalese superstar Youssou N'Dour
* Film score credits include Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation Of Christ and Alan Parker's Birdy
* His song "Biko", about a murdered anti-apartheid activist, became one of the best known protest anthems of the 80s
* He did the music for London's Millennium Dome show, later released as the Ovo album
* Owner of the Real World studios at Box, near Bath"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/gabrielpeter.shtml
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/R