Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, February 14, 1994 TAG: 9402140003
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: from wire reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The silver-haired rock legend was to marry independent filmmaker Deborah Koons today in a secret location north of San Francisco.
"If you were invited, you have to call up on the day of the wedding and you'll be told where to go," a friend of Koons' told the newspaper.
A Mill Valley restaurant owner who confirmed to the Examiner that the wedding was to take place said of the secrecy: "How would you feel if thousands of screaming Deadheads showed up for your wedding?"
The Grateful Dead's publicist would neither confirm nor deny the nuptials.
Garcia, 51, and Koons have known each other since they met at a Grateful Dead concert in the mid-1970s, the paper said. Koons, who is in her early 40s, recently completed her first feature film, "Poco Loco," described as a romantic comedy with elements of magic.
\ The three surviving members of the Beatles will get back together for a concert in New York's Central Park, a London newspaper reported Sunday.
Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr will perform in Central Park this year, according to The Mail, which quoted an unidentified source. They will be joined onstage by John Lennon's sons, Julian and Sean Lennon.
Publicists for the musicians could not immediately be reached for comment.
Each of the former Beatles will be paid $30 million for the concert, which is expected to draw more than a million people and will be televised worldwide, the newspaper said. Plans for the concert came out of the three singers' recent reunion to record songs for a television documentary.
The paper said McCartney chose New York as a tribute to Lennon, who was gunned down in front of his Manhattan home in 1980.
by CNB