The assault on one of the leading concert halls in Paris sends shockwaves Saturday through the music world.
“Shocked, sad and angry. We are all Parisian today,” tweets Peter Gabriel, one of many prominent musicians who took to social media after Friday’s night coordinated attacks in the French capital.
More than 80 people were killed inside the Bataclan concert hall as gunmen opened fire during a performance by the California rock band Eagles of Death Metal.
The music industry was directly touched by the tragedy, with at least three employees of Universal Music France, part of the largest global label group, among the dead.
“The Universal Music family is in mourning,” tweets Pascal Negre, president of Universal Music France, as he identified the dead by the first names Thomas, Marie and Manu.
“This is crazy. It’s normally a pleasant place where people come to relax. And then it was hell,” says the television and radio presenter Pierre Janaszak.
The 35-year-old tells AFP that he survived by hiding in the restrooms as the assailants took hostages and was freed in the police counter-assault.
Leading French music magazine Les Inrockuptibles says that one of its writers, Guillaume B. Decherf, was killed.
Members of Eagles of Death Metal, a bluesy garage rock band known for lascivious lyrics but rarely politics, were unhurt and were set to return to the United States, although a British crew member was killed.
— AFP
People rest on a bench after being evacuated from the Bataclan theater after a shooting in Paris, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. A series of attacks targeting young concert-goers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed over 100 people in the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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