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Rolling Stones donating share of Polish concert proceeds to bus crash fund


(AFP)
Updated: 2007-07-24 09:36





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Rolling Stones' lead singer Mick Jagger performs during the
"A Bigger Bang" tour concert in Budapest, 20 July 2007.[AFP]

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British rockers The Rolling Stones are going ahead with a concert in
Poland despite three days of national mourning for 26 pilgrims killed in
a coach accident in France, organisers said Monday.

While the group has decided not to call off the concert Wednesday
evening, which is expected to draw tens of thousands of fans to Warsaw,
victims' families will receive a share of the proceeds, concert promotion
firm Viva Art said in a statement.

The company did not specify the sum to be donated by the Rolling Stones
nor the concert's sponsors.

The event at a Warsaw race-track is part of the group's current European
tour, and is scheduled to begin only hours before the official end of
three days of mourning declared by Polish President Lech Kaczynski in the
wake of Sunday's deadly crash in the French Alps.

Mick Jagger and fellow band members will also ask the crowd to observe a
minute's silence during the event, organisers said.

Several performers have called off concerts scheduled to take place
during the mourning period, notably British star Rod Stewart, who
postponed an event scheduled for Tuesday in the historic shipyard in the
Baltic Sea city of Gdansk.

The pilgrims' coach crash in the French Alps has sent a shockwave across
Poland, where more than 90 percent of the 38.2 million people are Roman
Catholic.

The Polish-registered vehicle, carrying 48 pilgrims and two drivers back
from visiting a local Roman Catholic shrine, had brake trouble Sunday
morning as it drove down a steep and winding road between Gap and
Grenoble, officials said.

It smashed through the safety barrier, hurtling 40 metres (130 feet) onto
the banks of a river below and catching fire. Twenty-six people were
killed and 24 injured, 14 of them seriously.








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