{"id":804883,"date":"2020-03-04T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T21:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=962271"},"modified":"2020-03-04T14:12:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T21:12:35","slug":"watch-van-morrison-eric-clapton-and-nick-mason-jam-at-london-charity-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-van-morrison-eric-clapton-and-nick-mason-jam-at-london-charity-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Van Morrison, Eric Clapton and Nick Mason Jam at London Charity Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/clapton-van-morrison.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>An incredible lineup of musicians \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/eric-clapton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_eric-clapton\" data-tag=\"eric-clapton\">Eric Clapton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/van-morrison\/\" id=\"auto-tag_van-morrison\" data-tag=\"van-morrison\">Van Morrison<\/a>, Yusuf\/Cat Stevens, Rick Wakeman, Tom Jones, Bonnie Tyler and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nick-mason\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nick-mason\" data-tag=\"nick-mason\">Nick Mason<\/a> \u2014 came together at London\u2019s 02 Arena on Tuesday night for the Music for the Marsden charity show, which raised money to fight cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Procol Harum\u2019s Gary Brooker was the musical director of the show and he worked alongside keyboardist Paul \u201cWix\u201d Wickens, guitarists Andy Fairweather Low and Robbie McIntosh, bassist Dave Bronze and drummers Graham Broad and Ian Paice.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oR32JsvTK5c?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Highlights included Van Morrison and Eric Clapton jamming on \u201cThree Chords and the Truth\u201d and \u201cDoes Love Conquer All,\u201d Paul Carrack reuniting with his former Mike and the Mechanics bandmate Mike Rutherford for \u201cOver My Shoulder\u201d and \u201cI Can\u2019t Dance,\u201d Bonnie Tyler bringing things back to the Eighties with \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart,\u201d Yusuf\/Cat Stevens breaking out \u201cWild World\u201d and Tom Jones getting everyone in the place dancing with \u201cDelilah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of the night, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason came out to play the group\u2019s 1979 classic \u201cComfortably Numb\u201d with Brooker, Procol Harum guitarist Geoff Whitehorn and many other artists from the show. He\u2019s spent the past year playing pre-<em>Dark Side of the Moon<\/em> songs on the road with his new band Nick Mason\u2019s Saucerful of Secrets, making this one of the few times in recent memory he\u2019s broken out a tune from the band\u2019s stadium rock days.<\/p>\n<p>The show also marked the first time that Rutherford has played with Carrack in several years. Carrack parted ways with Mike and the Mechanics in 2004 and Rutherford carried on with new vocalists Tim Howar and Andrew Roachford. Hours after this show ended, Rutherford met up with his Genesis bandmates Phil Collins and Tony Banks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/genesis-tour-reunion-961479\/\">announce their first tour<\/a> since 2007 on the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MdZIzZxa4JE?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/van-morrison-eric-clapton-nick-mason-fight-cancer-london-charity-show-962271\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An incredible lineup of musicians \u2014 including Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Yusuf\/Cat Stevens, Rick Wakeman, Tom Jones, Bonnie Tyler and Nick Mason \u2014 came together at London\u2019s 02 Arena on Tuesday night for the Music for the Marsden charity show, which raised money to fight cancer. Procol Harum\u2019s Gary Brooker was the musical director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 00:40:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}