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Old 04-29-2013, 09:29 AM  
Robbie
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I'm looking forward to seeing this.

When I was young I hated any musicians who didn't play heavy rock/metal.

Because of that I didn't have any idea how good Liberace was as a musician and entertainer.

He was THE headliner at The Riviera here in Las Vegas when it opened in 1955 becoming the highest paid entertainer in the world at $50.000 a week (which was unheard of in 1955)

Since I saw this movie was coming out and set here in Vegas I started looking up stuff about him and it's very cool.

On YouTube for instance is him on the Oprah Winfrey show in Dec. 1986 playing Christmas music (he was the guest for the whole hour). He was dying at the time of AIDS but the public didn't know it.

He looks frail and probably felt HORRIBLE but he was super gracious and played Christmas songs beautifully and took questions from Oprah and the audience.

He died 2 months later...so he was REALLY hurting when he did that show. Not to mention that at the same time he was performing a series of shows in New York.

Anyway, it's interesting to see all the things he did.

And sad if you look up his home here in Vegas today on YouTube. It's in shambles.
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