Well these people have been doing free live concerts and interviews on-line - live-streamed onto YouTube - on the weekends for everyone stuck at home or inside somewhere during the virus 'shutdown/lock-down.'
Singer - Aruna |
In the case of Paul Van Dyk and Aruna these are simply the biggest superstars on the European music scene. Paul Van Dyk has been doing extended live-streamed gigs from his own home in Berlin - for hours and hours on end.
Katy Perry gave a fully staged free concert for the Australian bush-fire affected communities here in Australia just literally days before the shut-down.
And Stone was interviewed live-streamed straight from her lounge at home, with Naomi Campbell doing the interview. Probably the most surprising thing for me personally, was how absolutely down-to-earth, intelligent and really nice Campbell was.
Sharon Stone has been running fundraisers for medical charities involved in viral research and a LOT of other areas related to this particular pandemic situation.
So, this is a shout-out to those sorts of people everywhere who gave their time straight away without asking anything at all. From what I understand in every one of these particular above-mentioned instances, the people involved have been doing a lot more besides that they don't seek publicity over; so I'm putting it out there that they haven't 'just' been giving of their time alone.
Modern era musical legend and frankly, genius - Paul Van Dyk |
Paul Van Dyk's home concerts are going to be revered over time as today's equivalent - for the cognoscenti of his type of music - of the Abbey Road sessions.