Photo: BANG Showbiz. All rights reserved. U2 turned down $10 million for one show in the Caribbean.
The 'One' hitmakers are among a host of largely older established acts - including AC/DC, The Cure, Depeche Mode, and Bruce Springsteen - who are not interested in playing private concert for wealthy clients, and even a hefty pay cheque couldn't get the band to agree to a one-off performance. Jay Siegan, whose company specialises in organising private gigs by big names, told The Times newspaper: “We recently made an offer to U2 of $10 million to perform on an island in the Caribbean for a private client. They quickly declined.
“As a kid who grew up on their music, it’s a goal for me to get Depeche Mode or the Cure to do one for a client. So far that doesn’t look terribly possible — but goddammit, I’m going to keep trying.” While Celine Dion - who is battling Stiff Person Syndrome - returned to public performance last month at the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony, shortly before then she had sang five tracks to a group of around 100 sales people in Las Vegas, who had arrived at a function at the Delano Hotel and were stunned by the choice of entertainment for their company mixer.
Jay said: “People were truly shocked. It’s such a rare thing to experience, the impact of having a massive global superstar in a tiny room. "[The show was] intentionally brief to leave the audience wowed.
To put it plainly, it was f***ing amazing.” Young artists have been embracing pe.