Live 8 performers profit question

 

 

کنسرت های لایو 8 که در نقاط مختلفجهان برگزار شد، باعث افزایش فروش آثار شمار زیادی از هنرمندان در عرصه موسیقی در بازار بریتانیا شده است.

 

  

No one knows what the effect of the weekend's concerts will be on the leaders about to gather for the G8 in Gleneagles in Scotland or on the millions living in poverty in Africa. But we do know what the effect has been on the record sales of several of the rock n roll millionaires who played. They've soared. Sales of Madonna's greatest hits have trebled according to a week on week comparison by one of Britain's biggest chains of record shops. But this is a modest boost compared to an eight fold increase for the veteran rockers the who and a remarkable fourteen times more copies sold of the latest compilation by Pink Floyd.

                    This is potentially embarrassing for those involved in the concerts, as the cynics favorite accusation has always been that rock stars use charity to disguise self promotion.

Perhaps aware of this one of the stars of the London concert has announced that he will not profit from the surge in sales and will donate his royalties to charity. David Gilmour, the guitarist of Pink Floyd is known as a generous donor – again cynics will point out he can afford it,  but his is an important gesture in maintaining the moral high-ground of those involved in what was presented as a principled campaign against poverty.  Gilmour urged other musicians-as well as their record companies-to make similar donations.

 

   

 

 

کمی افزایش یافت              a modest boost

به شدت افزایش یافت                            soared

هنرمندان قدیمی موسیقی راک                   compilation

                           افراد بد بین                            cynics

از کارهای خیر به عنوان بهانه ای برای تبلیغ در مورد خود استفاده کردن use charity to disguise self promotion

افزایش فروش          the surge in sales

پول به دست آمده از فروش را به سازمان های خیریه دادن            donate his royalties to charity

این طور به نظر برسد که کار "درست" را انجام می دهیم؛               the moral high-ground

تلاشی صادقانه برای مبارزه با فقر                             a principled campaign against poverty


 

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