Subj : Re: Damn no account Brit! To : Steve Brooks From : Finnigann Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 20:43:00 -=> Steve Brooks wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=- SB> From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape SB> Finnigann wrote: > To: Steve Brooks > -=> Steve Brooks wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=- > >> From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape > >> Nick wrote: >> http://tinyurl.com/c6e8u >> >> The nerve of some people is astounding. > >> $2 million to not sing does seem like a lot. I'd fail to perform for >> half that. > > Perhaps I miss-understood the article (or your interpertation of the > article) > > Rod Stewart is to refund $2m, a prepaid sum for a concert. A concert > he was unable to preform due to illness. Even though he offered to > perform other date(s) to make up the loss. SB> Only because a court made him. He obviously thought he should be SB> allowed to keep the money. "We felt it was only fair," he said, "that if Mr. Stewart didn't perform the concert that he should give the money back." The jury deliberated about three hours Wednesday after nearly two weeks of testimony in the civil breach-of-contract lawsuit. Stewart was paid $2 million in advance in January 2000 for the December 2000 show. He and his doctors testified he was later diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had two tumors surgically removed in May 2000. One was cancerous, one was benign. Stewart, who was not in the courtroom Wednesday, said that he didn't fully recover his trademark raspy voice in time for the Las Vegas show. He did recover in time to begin a world concert tour in June 2001, and estimated he has performed 150 shows since. But he said Harrah's would not let him reschedule the December 2000 show. Harrah's chief executive Gary Loveman testified that a makeup show on any other date could not provide the same monetary benefit to the casino as a show on New Year's weekend. http://tinyurl.com/bxtak Seems to me that he made an effort to comply. .... "It's funny how all the guards disappeared so fast." Garibaldi --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.46 .