Earnie Shavers
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It was a huge event in Sydney as well. Much moreso than when Popmart and Vertigo rolled into town, even though Vertigo was triple the size in terms of tickets sold (three shows in a new 80K stadium vs the two ZooTV shows in the old 40K stadium, or one Popmart show in the same smaller stadium). I remember, and did keep for a long time but have since lost, a big front page dominant story the day of the first show with snazzy graphics showing the stage set up and how it all worked in a technical sense, as well as other separate large features on the band and the ZooTV concept, big front page reviews of each show, and of course Adams big night on the town was news as well. It wasn’t forced hype or publicity, it was genuinely exciting, genuinely a big fucking deal at the time, more than just the big band in town this week.