Many Thanks To THE KING Of Song! Just back from Landmark where Vatsan and I bought tickets for the Ilayaraaja concert! Yes Ilayaraaja is actually doing a concert! It is a dream come true for me. How often is one lucky enough to be born in the same era as one of the all time great musical giants? And then to be able to watch him perform is a privilege not many have. It doesn’t get bigger than this! It really doesn’t! How many Beatles fans would have got too see John Lennon perform? How many lovers of western classical music would have wished they could have been alive when Mozart or Beethoven lived? On the 16th of this month the huge load of us who are going to be at the Nehru Stadium are going to have the rare privilege of watching one of the pillars of world music perform in front of us! The crowd is going to go absolutely wild! I can’t even comprehend how euphoric it is going to be when rakkamma kayatathe is on! Or the mesmeric spell we will be under if Raaja performs kadhal oviyum. When Sridhar and I went for the release of Tiruvasagam in Music Academy the sheer adulation and frenzy for Raaja was breathtaking. It was so packed that people were sitting on the wall outside!Raaja says that it is this response from us,his fans, which convinced him to do something which he has not done in over a decade - do a concert in Madras!Thank you Raaja!