{"id":807400,"date":"2020-05-13T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=998933"},"modified":"2020-05-13T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:38:00","slug":"michael-mcdonald-shares-live-rendition-of-what-the-world-needs-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/michael-mcdonald-shares-live-rendition-of-what-the-world-needs-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael McDonald Shares Live Rendition of \u2018What the World Needs Now\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MichaelMc.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rollingstone.com\/t\/michael-mcdonald\">Michael McDonald<\/a> has released audio from his live rendition of \u201cWhat the World Needs Now,\u201d originally written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>The timely concert recording premiered on <em>Billboard<\/em> alongside a lyric video, depicting heartwarming home videos of family and the outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald told&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em> that he likes to end his live shows with \u201cWhat the World Needs Now,\u201d Marvin Gaye\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s Going On,\u201d or both songs. \u201cWe\u2019ve tried to make our live shows leave people with a sense of community and a little something more important than just all of us getting together to hear some live music. That\u2019s certainly a wonderful thing\u2026but nonetheless we take the opportunity to say something beyond that to all the people who are nice enough to come hear us that points to the fact we\u2019re a community. And the mindfulness of being a community is always important \u2014 especially now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On November 7th, McDonald will be inducted into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame\/\">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/doobie-brothers\/\">Doobie Brothers<\/a>, along with bandmates Tom Johnston, Pat Simmons and John McFee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been one of the great honors of my life to share the stage with all these guys over the years,\u201d McDonald said. \u201cTo see the band receive this honor is wonderful to say the least.\u201d<\/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\/michael-mcdonald-what-the-world-needs-now-998933\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael McDonald has released audio from his live rendition of \u201cWhat the World Needs Now,\u201d originally written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach in 1965. The timely concert recording premiered on Billboard alongside a lyric video, depicting heartwarming home videos of family and the outdoors. McDonald told&nbsp;Billboard that he likes to end his live shows [&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-807400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 05:51:11","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\/807400","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=807400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}