Posted on 11/14/2014 5:52:29 PM PST by NKP_Vet
Patti Smith is to play this year's Vatican Christmas Concert in Rome next month.
The punk singer will perform live at the Italian city's Auditorium Conciliazione on December 13 following a personal invitation from Pope Francis, according to The International Business Times. The entire event is set to be broadcast live on TV.
Smith's booking has evoked a mixed response from Christian groups, with Catholic organisation Portosalvo apparently describing the decision as "blasphemous", following the singer's 1975 song 'Gloria', which famously featured the lines: "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine".
The singer met Pope Francis at St. Peter's Square last April, where the pair shook hands.
The Vatican Christmas Concert will also feature a performance from "singing nun" Sister Christina Scuccia, who recently won Italy's version of The Voice and covered Madonna.
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This is weirder than Carnival Cruise Lines using Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” in a commercial.
We have that in common!
It doesn’t seem so, I am puzzled by the energy you put into the mention of the Pope’s famous humility.
Click and see what you think, people.
Well Jiminey Christmas, I’m flummoxed!
Just a reminder that many people change as they get older, and experience life in unexpected ways.
Lust for Life is an extremely catchy tune, one that quickly turns into an Ear Worm. The key to enjoying it is to hear the tune, but WITHOUT seeing the image of Iggy Pop onstage, gyrating, stripped to his anorexic, needle-pockmarked, 67 year old veiny waist.
Take me with you next time, ‘kay? ;)
kg/nancy
Smithereens did a killer cover version.
Love that word “flummoxed”. It’s a major life theme for me.
Thanks for that.
I do think Patti is an extraordinary artist. I do not normally think of her as being someone who would be appropriate for a solemn Christian occasion, but perhaps I was wrong about that.
Here is her current thinking on religions.
October 15, 2014
“I believe there is good in in all religions. But religion, politics and business, all of these things, have been so corrupted and so infused with power that I really don’t have interest in any of it – governments, religion, corporations. But I do have interest in the human condition.”
A simple “no” answer would have sufficed. I believe someone else was capable of doing that.
Sounds like she and Francis have much in common.
your comment persuaded me to listen to two of her performances on YouTube, gimme shelter cover and horses. It is definitely not my cup of tea.
OK, no.
Well, definitely not for everyone. If you wanted to try one more, I’d suggest “Free Money” — it starts off soft and slow and builds into a driving song of love and desperation. Again, not really Top 40 stuff, but I think it’s more accessible than some of her other songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSHf1svbQrA
Wow. That was beautiful.
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