Sentence examples for concert attraction from inspiring English sources
Thanks to them, the Dead eventually triumphed over standard music business wisdom, which assumed that an act had to have hit records to be a popular concert attraction.
They remained an enduring concert attraction, however, thanks in part to their energetic new guitarist, a former paratrooper from Seattle named Jimi Hendrix.
Several years as a top concert attraction in the United States followed, but Ray's struggle to reverse bad business deals made in the early 1960s took its creative toll.
The quartet made its first recordings in 1952, gave its first public performance the next year and except for a seven-year layoff was a leading concert attraction from the mid-1950's to the late 90's.
He began to envision "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" not just as a documentary but as a way for the Funk Brothers to resurrect their careers as a concert attraction.
And although the Eagles are reliable sellers, Journey is what industry executives delicately refer to as a "heritage act," a steady summer concert attraction that sells relatively few albums of new material.
These were designed to unlock actors' spontaneous behavior, in this way to facilitate the kind of improvisation and collaboration that made Mr. Nichols and Ms. May headline concert attractions by 1959 and, the following year, Broadway stars.
But many of its residents seemed unprepared for the motley masses that streamed in for three rare homecoming shows by Widespread Panic, a jam-band that has kept a low-profile commercially -- selling only 1.5 million copies of its seven albums combined -- but has nonetheless managed to become one of the biggest concert attractions in the South.
Year after year, Dead tours have ranked among the top concert attractions in the United States.
Here's a singer whose world tour consists of one stop -- the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, within a cab ride of her home -- yet she was able to draw enough fans and charge enough for tickets that she finished third (behind the Stones and U2) on Pollstar's ranking of the year's top concert attractions.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10 — Madonna is about to become the latest music superstar to defy the music industry's traditional structure by exiting her longtime record label, Warner Brothers Records, for a lucrative deal that relies heavily on her longevity as a live-concert attraction.
