Yes, Mr. "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" himself BIG Solomon Burke (and I mean BIG!!), near the border with Austria a few years ago! This song was also made famous by the Stones and was part of that epic movie, "The Blues Brothers". I was in front row for this show, one of the best I've seen in a long time. Burke back then must have weighed some 300 kilos or so. In fact, they brought him out on a "throne" with the curtains drawn and they moved him out the same way. So good was his show that at one point he invited anyone who wanted to jump up on stage and sing and dance. In the Stones's great 2003 "4 Licks" DVD set they show Burke joining the band on stage and singing "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" together. I think at one point Ron Wood says that the stage floor began to go up and down as Burke came on (all pics by M. Rimati)!
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