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matthewsemple
Sep-01-2006, 20:03 GMT
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United Kingdom
 | But you had the free Simon & Garfunkel concert in Rome in 2004 and lots of people went to that! |
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Lara
Sep-01-2006, 20:27 GMT
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Italy
 | Yes it´s true, even if in 2004 I wasn´t in Rome because of a lot of work, but in fact it was a great event. I also had the possibility to work for the advertising compaign for the concert.But unfortunately we don´t use the really S&G but just two chalk statue.
Anyway sometimes I have the feeling that all the people who were at the concert disapear and maybe that´s because it´s still not easy to hear a PS´s song at the radio or television or some article in newspaper. I hope that when PS will come again in Italy for Surprise tour (it will happen yeah?!)he will receive the grat welcome that he deserve. |
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Bodo
Sep-03-2006, 15:07 GMT
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Austria
 | I have a serious question - is there any real ´Proof´ that 600.000 have visited that show? I only heard that number from some newspapers...
I do not know how big/long the street in front of the colosseum is, but it is hard for me to believe that 600.000 can find a place on that street.
On pictures I have only seen a medium street (4 lanes)... it did not look that impressing - and the crowd did not look as big as in 1991 (Central park) by far...
Has anyone seen pictures from a helicopter?
Sometimes I have the feeling that the newspapers just want to write a even bigger number every year after the free concert in Rome... McCartney, Elton John, S&G... |
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Lara
Sep-03-2006, 15:34 GMT
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Italy
| I wasn´t there. But for what I can remember of that street in Rome it is long but not so much large. There is a point in which it become bigger. Anyway 600000 are too much people for that. I agree with you Bodo, sometimes italian newspaper are a little bit megalomaniac about numbers. |
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Bodo
Sep-03-2006, 16:10 GMT
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Austria
| I ask that too, because in 2002 i was in Rome - PS concert - and the day after they wrote in the newspaper that 60.000 people have visited the show. In my opinion there never have been 60.000 people, because I saw big concerts with 40.000 and 50.000 people and the crowd was MUCH bigger. So I always have some serious doubts when I hear the numbers from "free" concerts where no one can really count the people. |
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Lara
Sep-03-2006, 16:30 GMT
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Italy
| Completely agree Bodo, it´s happened to me too, with free concerts. I don´t know exactly why newspaper and tv like so much to make numbers bigger, maybe because sometimes the sponsor of the concert also control tv channel or newspaper. A sucessfull concert gives more possibility of promotion. I could be wrong. |
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matthewsemple
Sep-04-2006, 00:08 GMT
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United Kingdom
| I think with Central Park they have a fair idea of numbers because free concerts are held there on a more regular basis so they can estimate according to the amount of space taken up on the Great Lawn.
That picture on the front of the CD is awesome and I reckon the 750,000 figure is pretty accurate for that particlaur show. |
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Bodo
Sep-04-2006, 01:13 GMT
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Austria
| The 750.000 are just a estimated number - and the original statement was always
"estimated 500.000 -750.000"
Journalists which Love big numbers then tend to take the 750.000. I even have read lower numbers (350.000, 400.000) from other sources which counted the crowd at a different system. Well, it all depends on how many people per square you take - (and I for example do not believe that people 200 meters away from the stage stood very close to each other or had body contact, while in the first rows they stand very close to each other...so how many people per m² will you take?)
And IMO, a estimated number with a range difference of 33% does not really say a lot.
At the next US elections Hillary Clinton will reach estimated 40-60% ..... :-)
Nearly everyone can bet on that an will not loose a Cent (the number, not that Mrs. Clinton will really run for the office) |
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Klausi
Sep-04-2006, 07:09 GMT
IP:
Germany
 | This reminds me on "When Numbers Get Serious".
"Two times two is 22, and four times four is 44"... |
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matthewsemple
Sep-04-2006, 09:05 GMT
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United Kingdom
| Warner Bros also used the higher figure in the advert for the album. It said:
"One singer, 15 drummers, 750,000 dancers" |
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