From Daily
Kos:
This past summer, a story hit the internets
and got passed around. It was the story that Michael Cohl related to an
audience at a keynote address for Pollstar. Cohl
was a concert promoter and producer who had worked with popular
luminaries like Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, and of course, the Rolling Stones.
The 1989 Steel Wheels tour was famous for many things, including its
reunion of Mick and Keef but also for its profitability, grossing nearly $100
million – a tour manufactured by Cohl and one that changed the landscape of
concert promotion. It wrapped with a $24.95 pay-per-view event at Atlantic City
Cohl figured
out a way to sell the band on a big Pay-Per-View event, which ended up with the
Stones having to get involved with Donald Trump. The Rolling Stones, even back
in 1989, didn’t want to have anything to do with Trump—but Cohl promised he
would “control” Trump. Part of the agreement Cohl makes with Trump is that he
can’t be associated with the Stones. At all. Trump cannot even be on the
premises when they perform for the Pay-Per-View. Well, with about an
hour to go before the Rolling Stones do their press conference for the
nightly news to promote this unique concert PPV, Cohl gets word that lo and
behold, Trump is in the press room doing his own press conference, lying like a
insane person.
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Keith Richards pulled the
knife, if you didn't already guess.
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