CLEVELAND, Ohio – Sometimes, amid the $40 T-shirts and the $20 license plates and the $70 jackets, the $5 bottles of water and the $7 hot dogs, it's easy to get jaded about the concert business.
Everybody's out to make a buck, but so is the rest of the world; we've all got mortgages and car payments and grocery bills. It's just that most of us don't pick up paychecks by bringing 20,000 or so fans to places like FirstEnergy Stadium the way boy band One Direction did Thursday night.
But every now and then, you get a face slap that just lets you see a concert for what it was when you were a kid .