As part of his tour, he played at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, with his final concert of that tour in Paris being recorded for a Valentine's Day special on PBS in 1998.

Brown appeared at Edinburgh 50, 000 – The Final Push, the final Live 8 concert on July 6, 2005, where he performed a duet with British pop star Will Young on " Papa's Got A Brand New Bag ".

His last shows were greeted with positive reviews, and one of his final concert appearances at the Irish Oxegen festival in Punchestown in 2006 was performed for a record crowd of 80, 000 people.

The following day's second Oakland concert was the band's final live appearance in the United States.

The set list was the same as the 1977 concert, with the addition of a couple of more recent songs as a final encore.

To fulfill agreed commitments, the Undertones remained together for a further two months, performing several gigs across continental Europe before disbanding in the summer, with their final concert being played at Punchestown Racecourse in County Kildare in Ireland on 17 July.

* June 12 – The Supremes perform its final concert together at Drury Lane in London, England and then disbands permanently.

* August 19 – Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Yankee officials said that while the team had contemplated a final ceremony ( with any proceeds going to charity ), talk of a concert was just media speculation.

Although he made two more stage appearances before his death, Ellington performed what is considered his final " full " concert in a ballroom at Northern Illinois University on March 20, 1974.

One of Mercury's most notable performances of The Games final track, " Save Me ", took place in Montreal, and the concert is recorded in the live album, Queen Rock Montreal.

Queen's final concert with Freddie Mercury was in Knebworth in 1986.

The show marked bassist John Deacon's final concert with Queen ( save two live appearances with Brian May, Roger Taylor and Elton John in 1997 ).

( The director of the Institute, Leonard Stein, added a setting of his own to the final concert of the project.

Venues included the Perth Entertainment Centre, The Seagull Stadium on the Gold Coast, Memorial Drive in Adelaide, the Sydney Entertainment Centre and a final concert at the Melbourne Tennis Centre on 23 December 1988, the same night that the last episode of Young Talent Time went to air on Network Ten.

The Synchronicity Tour began in Chicago, Illinois in July 1983 at the original Comiskey Park, and ended in Melbourne, Australia in March 1984 at the Melbourne Showgrounds ( the final concert featured Simple Minds, Flock of Seagulls, The Fixx, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and The Police topping the bill ).

A number of Nico's performances towards the end of her life were recorded and released, including 1982's Heroine, Live In Tokyo, and her final concert, Fata Morgana, recorded on 6 June 1988.

Nico's final recording was of her last concert, ' Fata Morgana ', at the Berlin Planetarium on the 6th June 1988.

Particularly famous ones include George Harrison's Concert For Bangladesh, The Concert for New York City following the September 11 attacks, and John Lennon's final concert appearance ( during an Elton John concert on Thanksgiving Night, 1974 ) before his murder in 1980.

Their concert on July 26, 1972 was the final show of their legendary 1972 North American Tour to promote the classic album, " Exile On Main Street.

In the film's final half-hour, most of the characters come together at the outdoor concert at the Parthenon in Nashville.

His final appearance on his 2006 U. S. tour was a benefit concert in the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn, New York on August 7.

The theatre's final performance before its closure for refurbishment works in 2005 was a concert on November 1 starring folklore singer Mercedes Sosa in performance with the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pedro Ignacio Calderón.

The day after the final concert, he was interviewed on NBC's Today Show about the origins of his support for Amnesty International and he stated: " I've been a member of Amnesty and a support member for five years, due to an entertainment event called The Secret Policeman's Ball and before that I did not know about Amnesty, I did not know about its work, I did not know about torture in the world.

On 17 September 2010 Coronation Street entered the Guinness World Records book as the world's longest-running television soap opera after the American soap opera As the World Turns had its final episode.

* 1986 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.

It was almost by accident that the final two, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, came together to complete the opera.

In 1907, Puccini made his final revisions to the opera in a fifth version, which has become known as the " standard version ".

Turandot, Puccini's final opera, was left unfinished, and the last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches.

The final scene of the opera Risorgimento!

A cast party is a celebration following the final performance of a theatric event, such as a play, a musical, or an opera.

The most popular Italian prime-time drama series Incantesimo ( Enchantment ), that run from 1998 until 2008, has been transformed into daytime soap opera in its final two years, airing 5 days-a-week on Rai 1.

* 2009 – The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.

During that final moment, Sondheim and I were standing, facing the choir of students from the University of Utah's opera program, our backs to the audience, and I could see tears welling in his eyes as the voices rang out.

The first and shortest opera, Das Rheingold, typically lasts two and a half hours, while the final and longest, Götterdämmerung, takes up to five hours, excluding act breaks.

In 1889, for his final examination at the end of his course of study, he submitted his opera Gina, with a libretto by Enrico Golisciani which was adapted from the old French play Catherine, ou La Croix d ' or by Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville ( 1787 — 1865 ).

He changed the location and names to the final Norwegian version while the opera was in rehearsals for its first production, which took place in Dresden in January 1843 with Wagner himself conducting.

By March 1924 he had completed the opera up to the final duet.

As this somewhat lighter overture seems to work best of the four as a start to the opera, Beethoven's final intentions are generally respected in contemporary productions.

Much of the work of this stage of development of the opera overlapped with work on the final orchestral version of Das Rheingold.

The final scene of the opera Risorgimento!

Verdi finally completed the composition of the opera on 5 February 1851, a little more than month before the premiere, although as he worked on the final stages of Act 3, Piave had already arranged for the sets to be designed.

Four of his chamber pieces are actually arrangements of portions of his operas, including the Daphne-Etude for solo violin, and the string Sextet which is the overture to his final opera Capriccio.

Strauss's final opera, Capriccio ( 1942 ), had a libretto by Clemens Krauss, although the genesis for it came from Stefan Zweig and Joseph Gregor.

In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.

The production of Bizet's final opera Carmen was delayed through fears that its themes of betrayal and murder would offend audiences.

Bizet's fourth and final envoi, which occupied him for much of 1862, was a one-act opera, La guzla de l ' émir.

Later that year he got the role of charming " bad boy " Demian Vermeer on the New Zealand primetime soap opera Gloss, and moved to Auckland to work on the series ' final season.