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Country star Brooks' final show live on silver screen
2007-10-17 04:46:27 Xinhua English

BEIJING, Oct. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Fans of country music superstar Garth Brooks who couldn't purchase tickets for any of his nine sold-out concerts will get an opportunity to see his final performance on the silver screen.

Brooks' last show in the series of nine concerts will be simulcast Nov. 14 from the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri to more than 300 movie theaters, which are part of the U.S. movie theater advertising network National CineMedia network.

Brooks, who retired more than nine years ago, sold out nine concerts in a record 1 hour and 58 minutes earlier this week, his representatives said in a statement.

The fastest-selling solo artist in music history, Brooks sold more than 100 million albums in 10 years. His body of work skyrocketed country music to the front pages of newspapers worldwide and the covers of magazines until Forbes declared on its cover, "Country Conquers Rock."

Brooks accomplished the feat without courting pop radio. His attitude was let the pop audiences come to country.

All tickets will be priced at 10 U.S. dollars and will go on sale on Oct. 19. An encore presentation of the concert will be rebroadcast in theaters on Nov. 15. Tickets for the encore event also will go on sale on Oct. 19.

(Agencies)

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