"The feedback's been mental, man," the 23-year-old singer says before the Bowery concert, dressed all in black (collarless shirt designed by him, jacket by Dior).
Gary Barlow, in contrast, performed before the Queen at her Diamond Jubilee concert wearing a scrupulously clean thong, received an OBE for his services to charity in 2012, and once climbed Kilimanjaro with Fearne Cotton for Comic Relief, the latter an image more disturbing than anything a Google of Allin will throw up.
When we met again, in 1991, Cliburn was rehearsing for the opening concert of Carnegie Hall's centenary celebrations.
Later, the Queen was given a five-minute standing ovation as she went on to the stage to meet performers after a gala concert at the Dublin Conference Centre.
A concert film following Elvis's performances at the Hotel International.
Lambert's concert has come under attack by the opposition Pan Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), which claimed the show would promote "gay culture" in the predominantly Muslim country.
But by 1972, Petit was already heading the Ballet de Marseille – again mixing avant-garde experiment, classical choreography and commercial nous, for example with his 1972 Pink Floyd Ballet, a spaced-out hybrid between a ballet and a live rock concert, featuring the Floyd themselves.
Strange but true: the striking miners were supported by Wham!, who pitched up at a benefit concert and declared their support for coal rather than dole by miming to Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.
The Prince of Wales acknowledged his father's absence in an emotional tribute on stage as the concert ended.
The new Milton Court building, which opened in September 2013, houses additional world-class facilities including a 608-seat concert hall, a 223-seat theatre, a studio theatre with up to 128 seats, three major rehearsal rooms, TV studio suite and teaching spaces.
By 1951, when he entered the Juilliard School of Music in New York to study with the Russian-born Rosina Lhévinne, he was already a seasoned concert veteran.
