The Zimmers: My Generation

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via Donita Sparks (L7, of course) at firedoglake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efiredoglake%2Ecom%2F

The above video was the most watched this week on YouTube. It all started when documentary filmmaker Tim Samuels was making a hard-hitting series for the BBC about the isolated and disenfranchised elderly in Britan titled Power To The People. He wanted to have a grand finale for his project by bringing together 40 of his subjects to record The Who's My Generation at Abbey Road studios in London to bring attention to their situation and blow some misconceptions of the elderly out of the water. U2's producer and Band Aid's video director jumped on board, the project gained momentum and the recording session went down:

They were then coached from around the country to the North London studios, where the single was painstakingly recorded between band members having to sit out sections due to treatment for various medical problems. One fainted in over-excitement before she even reached the studios.

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1. That reminds me of the last gig I played.

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But really, that was great. I thoroughly enjoyed it.