The Concert For New York City



Recorded live at Madison Square Garden, The Concert For New York City showcased Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, David Bowie, The Who and many more performing to honor the victims and workers in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

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  • It says this is a video over 4 hours but all I get is The Who for 2:50

  • Is the money from this going to first responders? If not I would like to know what scumbag is profiting off this.

  • hmmm, smells like…. yep must be

  • As I write there is the controversy over the "colour", or lack thereof, with the Oscar nominations. Watching this I can't help think the same – apart from JZ and Destin's Child which was about 5% of the concert …… poor

  • You can't watch the concert for NEW YORK CITY for free on YouTube anymore. Some greedy bastard want you to buy it.

  • I am watching the whole thing now 🙂

  • Thanks Orchard Movies for making it impossible for some people to see David Bowie sing "America" at The Concert for New York City.

  • This was a historical event – it is not right that it is no longer available for free : (

  • Roger Daltrey was once asked on Reddit what his emotions were like before going onstage at this concert. This was his answer:

    "Wow. It's almost, you could almost touch the hole through the walls of the backstage. It was extraordinary, absolutely an extraordinary time. Of course it's in those times of incredible stress the adrenaline kicks in overdrive, and people are dazed, and it kind of brings out the best in humanity. And I was really nervous, you know, I thought 'what are we going to play' and Pete said 'Let's just play what we always play' and thank god he was right. We went out and played songs that were defiant, not celebratin' anything, but like we're not going away, we're here, and I still find it emotional now, thinking bout it. It was a very roller coaster to be onstage looking at the audience. I don't know if you saw it on the TV, I never saw it on TV, but quite a lot of the front row, there were young children, 8, 9, 10, and they were wearing their father's helmet who were killed in the twin towers. It was so hard to look at it. But they all reacted so positively to the music that you thought 'all of this evil, wherever it comes from in the world, music will overcome it, good music, and being upfront with people and talking to people and getting rid of all the stuff in between.' When you come face to face with good music. It was an amazing, amazing experience. And i hope I don't ever have to do another one."

  • Why can't I watch this for free anymore? Youtube if you are responsible for robbing people of this historic show then you're a bunch of cunts

  • BULLSHIT TO MAKE MONEY OFF THIS CONCERT WHEN ALL PLAYED FOR FREE TO RAISE MONEY KISS MY ASS The Orchard Movies

  • This "Orchard Movies" group had a good business plan, until they screwed it up with charging for a concert which was played for a benefit. A benefit for the people who suffered through the worst attack on US soil in history. Let's hope "Orchard" isn't doing the same thing for all the more recent terrorist attacks, and those which are to come.

    They would do better trying to get some of the videos long gone, like Joe Cocker's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen," which they could probably make a buck on.

  • I love how they were willing to have such a huge event shortly after 9/11, despite the security risk. It shows that we're not afraid and will always carry on.

  • disgraceful and quite shameless of google to make people pay for this wonderful concert. The tribute to all those brave men and women should be free for all, so we can always be in awe of their sacrifice. Lets hope there is donation's from google, going to the affected families.

  • At 56-1/2 Townshend could still get up with that trademark side jump.  This guy is the best all around rock and roller.

  • I was fortunate enough to be there at the concert. And I was lucky enough to escape downtown that morning unhurt physically.. Many of my friends and co workers died.. It was a special time in NYC..strangers talked to one another and comforted one another. It was an extraordinary time.. That warm feeling among New Yorkers lasted a few months.. I wish it could be that way forever.. The humanity the compassion the humanity and emotion. I'm sad I experienced the tragedy first hand.. But wear it as a badge of honor to be connected to such a great city with some amazing fellow New Yorkers.. I was looking for video today of the concert.. So it promoted me so many years later to write this post.. Gone but never forgotten.. Hey hey my my rock and roll will never die. Words to live by

  • The Concert for NYC is available on a 2 disc DVD and it is the full uncut concert.

  • Zack isn't Keith Moon but he holds his own. Damn.

  • THE ORCHARD sucks! They also steal royalties from musicians & their families. They're vultures. I recorded this on VHS when it aired—-I should upload it out of spite.

  • Why must every musical group include an unknown, un-talented acoustic black female performer?

  • Great Great Show. Why oh Why Must One Keep PAYING. I Donated $100.00 I Recorded On VHS. NOW It's $9.99!
    HOW vim you ain't Charging Me $ 9.11 would that not be more fitting of Capitalists ASSHOLE Making $$$ Off Tragedy Tragedy You Arrogent COCKSUCJERS PROPETUATE IN THE NAME OF peace
    WAR IS MORE LIKE IT.
    what war? Just go buy a car. A new cell phone. C ANT Afford the American Dream anymore.
    The American Dream!
    Raise a Family Have a House,a Car a Phone, Food on the Table. A Work Ethic, Community, Where Overtime pay Got you A camp or Boat or A Local Vacation. Or Just A Day off to Cook Sunday Dinner Watch The Game. Many Go Bowling, Play Some Pool? Go To The Polish Home Have A Few Beers W/ whom Ever.
    Play The Ponies W/ the Bookie at The Rainbow Resturant?
    Bowl at The Recreation Club. Strikes & Spares = Beers! You Trade YOUR Beers For Candy Bars. Cause you Couldn't afford to Have Beers and Bring Candy Home on Wednesday Nights. The Smell of Beer and Cigarettes Sweat and The Lanes coming off Your Bowling Shirt. That was Your Time. Adult Play TIME Time to Tip A Few Catch A Good Buzz Win or Loose. It Was all you Had. It was Enough pretty much. Because You was Grounded. Connected. Proud to Support 7 ppl on 1 Income. Maybe If You Hit The Ponies? We COULD Afford Ice Cream after A Tail & Chips at Rudys? There Was A Definate Dicotomy. Work Hard. PLAY Harder. Laughter Love, Polka, Good Company Shit! WTF did YOU KNOW? Fought WWII as an engineer. Come home Do The American Dream. As A Catholic The Trip They Placed in Your Head about All The Bad Things! Bad Things Like Profolatic! Shit A Few Rain Coats would of Afforded you A Better less Stressed life. One where Every Hour You Could Beg or Scratch in Overtime minus what Sleep you Got? Playing Keeping Up With The ????
    Shit You Were Treading Water and Going Down SLOW.
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    He is More Like You Than You'd Ever Know Me To! However You Would Of Be at us With Assistance of Whowrver into Some Misguided Submission.
    So Be Glad You Face Planted Walking To Sealright one Cold Cold COLD February day in 69? or was it '70
    It Sure is A mixed up Fucked Up World. We Can't Change Circumstances otherwise? Shit I Wouldn't be Here. Anyways Your Kids Got Some Great Kids. You'd Like I'm. They're Pretty Happy Go Lucky Musical Hands On blue Collar By Choose even When They're Wearing Different Shirts & Hats.
    You Sure We're Around Some Funked Up WOMEN! Crazy Man.I mean What A Strange Bunch. Once Again I Wouldn't Be Here. Though if Really Was Almost Worth It To Have Had You Wear a RUBBER! Spare Me The Bullshit Of Playing Nurse made To The Distinction The Mess The Head Trip You Left in your Wake.
    Beat I'm Into Submission. Nuture? But then You Were Beat into Submission and Ridiculed. So You Emulated what you Knew! Be that right or Wrong? IDK how that Truely Set W/ you?
    You Sorta Lucked Out Dropping Dead at 52. In 1970. You'd of been Worked like a Slave and Never Done enough for your Dupisitus Wife.
    As She said! You Have her KIDS To See After Her. Oh and The Two Fuck ups Were Used as Scape Goats. She Kept that Head Trip Up until the End last Feb18th. What A a head trip. Compartmentalized Relationships allowing Her To Play Any Game She Wanted. There was No UNITY Or Harmony. Just A Fucked up Mess Used to Her Advantage.
    Oh the Men. Shit She was coming Home at 3:30am or 5am Just a Singing and a Dancing in time to Get an Hrs Sleep and Walk Across the street to Start Her Shift At A.L.Lee Memorial Hospital. She Played every B.S. card ppl Snickered her With!
    Honest Things like Fighting for YOUR Pention? Nah "We Dont want to "Rock The Boat" What A Classic Line.!!! Even if All was Right With The World. Everything Was Great. Fat and Happy Everybody Successful! That would Scare the Shit out of Your Wife. She Could not Stand The Though of Being Old Alone! She Never Had To. We Who Promised her We Got You.
    I Got Your Back. Through Decades since 1970 and ALL the Night Terrors. Shit We Couldn't have Friends Sleep over. She's Screaming Bloody Murder! Get Out Of My Room!!!! Bla Bla Bla!! Blood Curdling SCREAMS. I'D have to Go in Turn on the Light! Nobody's In YOUR ROOM!
    NOW SHUT UP RELAX AND GO TO SLEEP! YEARS OF THAT. YEARS OF psychological abuse and Forced Co dependency.
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    No I Don't go back That Far In My Memory! That would be Wired. (Plus I don't want to Breathe In My nose in Amniotic fluid! SHUT 1 WOULD CHOJE TO DEATH BE (not B-3) starting this Oxigen Adventure!
    So That's my plug for Life Starts Sometime inutearo Further on Up/ Down Pushed out and Down The Road?!??? Something like this.
    Anyways John Was a Person in Need Of Supervision A p.i.n.s case THROUGH the Court System. You BOTH Really Gave John a. HARD ROW 2 whore How. Ridiculed By U as No Good Worthless because He Saw things Learned Visually. Well Fuck Youse ME TOO.
    HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?
    DO 'S I threaten You Still? Either of Youse? Your Dead!
    So Thank You For Making Me A LIAR of The Fantastical Kind. Never to Be Believed when Telling Truths! Truths are to Simple. Even when Complex. You won't Believe Us. We Could Do NO Right!
    Only Left only Wrong only Burdon only SHAME only Why can't you Do As I TOLD YOU! YEAH But YOU never explained Or Demonstrated or Taught or Nurtured! Fuck what a Twisted thing life is!
    Well Guess How many Kids I Have? GUEDS HOW MANY OF OFFSPRING I've laid
    (Oh And I got Laid a Plrnty!) This Fucked Up Sick Twisted Head trip on!
    All of My Biological kids! None that sent mine though. They Are to be Held up as An Example of Perfection to the Offspring of My Loines.
    There I Laid your Baggage on them All.
    Every Biological 1!
    I knew I didn't want to Curse anybody I love with The Sins of My Father My Mother My Brothers sisters Aunts Uncles. There's some Good ones I wish I got to Know. But Fuck they were Chased Away. Unless you She Created A Fucking B.S. Drama where the Spotlight was On or off you. As you saw FIT to your Mood for Attention!
    Your 2 jealous Proud SCARED but Not Show True Emotion Forever Manipulating Those around you. You lived Proudly like a Pauper your Whole life. And Used it to Play off of People. People are people Family Is Sacred.
    You my Dear Used Family and Got Played and Laid by aqaintances!
    Acquantences You Gave years of Being Elgible for Medicaid driver that I helped Set up For You. 15 yrs anyways you Would have had about $2100 + a month. But you TRUSTED STRANGERS Family you Compartmentalized! You Played for Your Amusement. For Power For CONTROL.
    I you Got Your Final Wish at The End! You Continues the Family sibling against Sibling Game. Right up until Your Death!
    You Made Sure! You Were The Only Glue.
    The Only Glue Holding your Unteathered from you( PRN ) Together!
    You Made Sure to Blow it up on Your way out. To See discord False Truths and Beliefs. Well Mother Dear. I WOULD of Done what I Believe at My Core Anyway. ComPASSION You want my PASSION SEEN as AGRESSION UNHINGED CERTIFYABLE So You Can JUSTIFY YOUR TWISTED SECESSION RECESSIONS Decessions You Laid on THOSE YOU CHOSE TO BURNED WITH THE BLAME FOR ALL THAT you Perceived Wrong in Your Life. And Wanting to Financially or Emotionally Ducking at Your Dried up Pathetic Feet.
    Enough 4 NOW
    Paul McCartney is on Concert for NYC at M.S.G
    following 9-11-2001 celebrating?Not! A hurricane and a birthday of Deathes!
    Not Today. Get Your Negative Wygant Shit Away From Me Please.
    Ty.Ty please?
    Teshi Delec I need A Hug Something Positive and Good Nookie. Please.

  • Probably 78 per cent of the audience gas spent hours waiting in an auto, and heard this song, better than the BSB. And The Who fuckin' showed up

  • I bought this CD. Somebody switched it out I ended up with Lee Greendwell
    OMG!?

  • The Who were the best band ever here.

  • In a career of dominant performances, they were never better than this night

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