{"id":31334,"date":"2025-01-29T21:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T21:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/fireaid-concerts-who-said-yes-first-who-got-turned-down-and-why-surprise-moments-are-planned\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T21:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T21:02:34","slug":"fireaid-concerts-who-said-yes-first-who-got-turned-down-and-why-surprise-moments-are-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/fireaid-concerts-who-said-yes-first-who-got-turned-down-and-why-surprise-moments-are-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"FireAid concerts: Who said yes first, who got turned down and why ‘surprise moments’ are planned"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Live Nation\/AEG Presents\/Azoff Company\/LA Clippers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The star-studded FireAid concerts, taking place Jan. 30 at the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, will feature 27 artists, including Stevie Nicks<\/strong>, Rod Stewart<\/strong>, Joni Mitchell<\/strong>, Stephen Stills\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Graham Nash<\/strong>. But there were so many others who wanted in that you can expect some unannounced performances.<\/p>\n

Famed music manager Irving Azoff<\/strong>, who’s one of the producers of the event, tells Billboard<\/strong><\/em><\/a> the show is already running 5 1\/2 hours. “After it was already on sale and [artists] are all set, then other [artists] called,” he explains.<\/p>\n

“[We said], ‘It\u2019s too late to add you to the bill and we don\u2019t have a slot, but how would you like to go do XYZ with such and such an artist?'” he adds. “I think there\u2019s a good half dozen really surprise moments.”<\/p>\n

Azoff tells The<\/em> Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/em><\/a> the concert was announced 48 hours after he came up with the idea. His first call was to\u00a0the Eagles<\/strong>, who weren’t available, but who kicked in a $2.5 million donation. The first artist who officially confirmed was Stewart, who said he’d charter a plane for himself and his band.<\/p>\n

Nicks was next to confirm and plans to perform a song “with relevant lyrics that she’d never recorded or released before,” according to the Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But Azoff told the Journal<\/em> he turned one superstar down because he wanted artists who had an LA connection. “My friend and client Jon Bon Jovi<\/strong> said, \u2018I\u2019m on the next plane.’ And I said, \u2018Jon, stay in New Jersey. There\u2019ll be a tragedy there, and we\u2019ll come there,’\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n

You can watch FireAid on multiple platforms, including Apple TV+, Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, Paramount+, Prime Video, and TikTok and YouTube.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Live Nation\/AEG Presents\/Azoff Company\/LA Clippers The star-studded FireAid concerts, taking place Jan. 30 at the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, will feature 27 artists, including Stevie Nicks, Rod Stewart, Joni Mitchell, Stephen Stills\u00a0and\u00a0Graham Nash. But there were so many others who wanted in that you can expectRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}