{"id":3798,"date":"2013-11-20T17:27:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/20\/david-byrne-plans-benefit-for-philippines-typhoon-victims\/"},"modified":"2013-11-20T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:27:23","slug":"david-byrne-plans-benefit-for-philippines-typhoon-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/11\/20\/david-byrne-plans-benefit-for-philippines-typhoon-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"David Byrne Plans Benefit for Philippines Typhoon Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/2f\/David_Byrne_2006.jpg\/220px-David_Byrne_2006.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"258\" \/><br \/>Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne will raise money for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines with a benefit concert featuring the cast of Here Lies Love, the concept album and stage musical he wrote with Fatboy Slim. The concert will take place on November 25th at Terminal 5 in New York, with proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders. Here Lies Love chronicles the life of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines. It was produced as a rock musical earlier this year at the Public Theater in New York City.  <!--more-->  <br \/>&#8220;The show is about the resiliency of the Philippine people\u00ad \u2013 it couldn&#8217;t be more timely,&#8221; Byrne said in a statement. &#8220;Upon hearing about this tragedy, the cast contacted me about doing a show to raise money for relief efforts. Most of our cast is Filipino, and all of us feel the same way. It&#8217;s personal for all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a message posted online from Byrne&#8217;s e-newsletter, he said, &#8220;We&#8217;ll be doing a concert version of the show \u2013 this won&#8217;t be the same immersive, interactive experience as the theatrical version. But we&#8217;ll do EVERY song, in order, with the original cast and costumes \u2013 plus I\u2019ll be helping out and singing as well. The show is wall-to-wall songs. If you didn&#8217;t see or hear the production, now is your chance to hear it and at the same time to do something for the survivors in the Philippines. Wear comfortable shoes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Rolling Stone spoke to Byrne about the Here Lies Love single &#8220;Please Don&#8217;t,&#8221; he said he found a lot of inspiration in Marcos&#8217;s story. &#8220;Some of Imelda&#8217;s quotes say so much,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They were gifts.&#8221; The song comes in the third act of the musical, which was inspired in part by Marcos&#8217;s love of disco.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the benefit are on sale now.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Rolling Stone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne will raise money for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}