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unusual facts about PA system



Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge

The bridge lights were turned on while the Phil Collins song "In The Air Tonight" was played over a PA system.

Charles Carl Roberts

The first police officers arrived about nine minutes later and attempted (unsuccessfully) to communicate with Roberts using the PA broadcasters in their cruisers.

Shed Studios

With no PA system available in Salisbury, Roskilly was sent to London with a government minder in tow to buy the relevant necessary PA equipment.

Vanities

Toward the end of the act they are stunned by a sudden announcement over their school's PA system about President John F. Kennedy's assassination, which foreshadows the "death" of their friendship at the end of the play.


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Black Gives Way to Blue

They played the entire album over the PA system and performed an acoustic set including versions of songs "Your Decision" and "Black Gives Way to Blue".

Hammersmith Odeon London '75

He notes that the concert did not start until 45 minutes after the scheduled start time, that the PA system made it difficult for him to make out the lyrics, but the band and The Boss "kept the evening alive -- and he did three encores." (Michael Palin Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years 2006 ISBN 0-297-84436-9)

Kustom Amplification

CCR toured from mid-1969 - 1972 using their own massive Kustom 400 PA system to maintain quality control of their live sound due to lack of quality backline venue PA systems in those days.

Raydale Park

When a goal was scored, "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker, Jr. used to play on the PA system, for no obvious reason.

Ted Whitten

During a State of Origin game only weeks before his death, Whitten, suffering from blindness due to the cancer, was driven around a lap of the MCG, with his son Ted jr. by his side and Mariah Carey's "Hero" playing on the PA system.

Velcro Fly

The song appears in Stephen King's novel, The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, where in the series's post-apocalyptic alternate reality of Mid-World, the song's looped percussion intro, played via a large PA system in the decaying city of Lud, is referred to as "the God Drums".