{"id":119179,"date":"2025-01-29T21:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T21:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/29\/fireaid-concerts-who-said-yes-first-who-got-turned-down-and-why-surprise-moments-are-planned\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T21:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T21:01:58","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\/magic\/2025\/01\/29\/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, from Billie Eilish<\/strong> and Olivia Rodrigo<\/strong> to Pink<\/strong> and\u00a0Lady Gaga<\/strong>,\u00a0to\u00a0Joni Mitchell<\/strong>, Stevie Nicks<\/strong> and Rod Stewart<\/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<\/strong> Billboard<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0the show is already running\u00a05 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>\u00a0the concert was announced 48 hours after he came up with the idea. His first call was to the\u00a0Eagles<\/strong>, who weren’t available, but who kicked in a $2.5 million donation. The first artist who officially confirmed was Rod, who said he’d charter a plane for himself and his band.<\/p>\n

Stevie was next to confirm and plans to perform a song “with relevant lyrics that she’d never recorded or released before,” according to theWall 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\u00a0Apple TV+, Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, Paramount+, Prime Video, and TikTok and YouTube.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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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, from Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo to Pink and\u00a0Lady Gaga,\u00a0to\u00a0Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart. But there were so many others whoRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}