{"id":372,"date":"2009-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.indiemusicnews.com\/blog\/2009\/paul-mccartney-raises-3000000-for-david-lynch\/"},"modified":"2009-04-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T07:00:00","slug":"paul-mccartney-raises-3000000-for-david-lynch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiemusicnews.com\/blog\/2009\/paul-mccartney-raises-3000000-for-david-lynch\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney raises $3,000,000 for David Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final pennies have been counted and given to yours truly, ready to  be exposed to the world. On Saturday night Paul McCartney and co. raised $3,000,000 for art-movie maker David Lynch. David Lynch&#8217;s meditation charity that is.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 4th April saw Paul McCartney take to the stage with old-times Beatle drummer Ringo Starr, beating out the classic &#8216;A Little Help From My Friends&#8217; amongst other special performances.<\/p>\n<p>Support came from Sheryl Crow, Donovan, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, Moby, Paul Horn, Bettye LaVette, and Jim James, who all performed at the &#8220;Change Begins Within Benefit Concert&#8221; at Radio City Music Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The David Lynch Foundation pays for scholarships for students of meditation through-out the world, and funds research into how Transcendental Meditation techniques affect stress, learning, and behavior. McCartney, who has credited &#8216;Transcendental Mediatation&#8217; as his rock in stormy weather over the last forty years, noted that &#8220;In moments of madness, it has helped me find moments of serenity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><i>Peter Adkins is a freelance music and travel journalist from rainy England, spending his time writing for a selection of newspapers, magazines, RSS feeds and websites.<\/p>\n<p>www.peteadkins.com<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With A Little Help From His Friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiemusicnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiemusicnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiemusicnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiemusicnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiemusicnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiemusicnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiemusicnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiemusicnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiemusicnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}