{"id":7218,"date":"2012-11-20T12:11:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T20:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=7218"},"modified":"2012-11-20T12:11:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T20:11:38","slug":"update-former-beatle-plays-for-bondermans-70th-vegas-b-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/update-former-beatle-plays-for-bondermans-70th-vegas-b-day\/","title":{"rendered":"(UPDATE) Former Beatle plays for Bonderman&#8217;s 70th Vegas B-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>From NYTimes)<\/strong><\/div>\n<h1>Tough Times? You Wouldn\u2019t Know at Party for Private Equity Titan<\/h1>\n<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 These are not halcyon days for the <a title=\"More articles about private equity.\" href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/category\/main-topics\/private-equity\/?inline=nyt-classifier\">private equity<\/a> industry. Returns are down. Fund-raising is trying. A tax increase looms&#8230;.Such challenges, however, did not deter one of the industry\u2019s titans, <a title=\"More articles about David Bonderman.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/b\/david_bonderman\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">David Bonderman<\/a>, from holding a 70th birthday party for himself and about 700 of his closest friends at the Wynn resort in Las Vegas Saturday night&#8230;.Paul McCartney was the surprise musical guest, playing for more than two hours. A newly minted septuagenarian himself, Mr. McCartney, the former Beatle, headlined a concert that also featured the comedian Robin Williams and the rocker John Fogerty. Mr. McCartney played several <a title=\"More articles about The Beatles\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/b\/beatles_the\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Beatles<\/a> hits, including \u201cRevolution\u201d and, in a song befitting a 70th birthday, \u201cThe Long and Winding Road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the image to read the article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/19\/what-happens-in-vegas-a-buyout-birthday-blowout\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7219\" title=\"fogerty&amp;mccartney\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fogertymccartney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fogertymccartney.jpg 576w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fogertymccartney-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/update-former-beatle-plays-for-bondermans-70th-vegas-b-day\/dbpix-david-bonderman-articleinline\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7221\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7221\" title=\"dbpix-david-bonderman-articleInline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dbpix-david-bonderman-articleInline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dbpix-david-bonderman-articleInline.jpg 190w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dbpix-david-bonderman-articleInline-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Tough Times? You Wouldn\u2019t Know at Party for Private Equity Titan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdealbook.nytimes.com%2F2012%2F11%2F19%2Fwhat-happens-in-vegas-a-buyout-birthday-blowout%2F#?secret=lUnpwZU4JF\" data-secret=\"lUnpwZU4JF\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NYTimes) Tough Times? You Wouldn\u2019t Know at Party for Private Equity Titan AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These are not halcyon days for the private equity industry. Returns are down. Fund-raising is trying. A tax increase looms&#8230;.Such challenges, however, did not deter one of the industry\u2019s titans, David Bonderman, from holding a 70th birthday party for himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7224,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}