Video: Gavin Friday & Friends (U2) "The Jean Genie"

Gavin & Courtney @ Carnegie Hall ( aphrodite-in-nyc ) Rufus, Scarlett & Gavin @ Carnegie Hall ( aphrodite-in-nyc ) Gavin & U2 @ Carnegie Hall ( aphrodite-in-nyc ) Sunday, October 4th was the "Hal Willner Presents: An Evening with Gavin Friday & Friends" show at Carnegie Hall. The whole night was a benefit for (RED), a charity directed toward AIDS in Africa . The night's advertised [...]

Last night Carnegie Hall hosted the biggest assortment of megastars this side of the Orpheum for a (RED)NIGHTS charity show, benefiting the Global Fund 's efforts against the African AIDS epidemic. The night was billed as "Hal Willner Presents: An Evening With Gavin Friday and Friends," and it turns out that the erstwhile Virgin Prunes frontman Friday has a great friend in Bono, and by extension, some of the music world's most iconic faces. It was the night of a thousand collaborations, some likely (Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson), some not so much (Rufus Wainwright, Scarlett Johansson, [...]