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Pat DiCesare on Art and Inspiration with William Rock


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Pat DiCesare promoted the Beatles concert in Pittsburgh on

September 14, 1964. 

In this interview on Art and Inspiration with William Rock,

Pat DiCesare shares details of promoting and financing the historic Beatles
concert. He also speaks of encounters with
Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and others.  In this Art and Inspiration interview you’ll
hear some rare audio from the concerts including Pat DiCesare telling the frenzied
Led Zeppelin crowd, “we gotta keep it
cool.”

Pat DiCesare was a hit songwriter and recording artist at

the dawn of the rock n’ roll era and then he went on to promote every major
concert act in the last half of the 20th century including The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Bruce
Springsteen and hundreds of others. Pat was a pioneer in the birth
and development of the modern rock concert and large stadium shows. His Pittsburgh based company called DiCesare Engler
Productions was among the top grossing concert production companies in the
United States.  Pat DiCesare’s book is
called Hard Days Hard Nights.

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