But it also made me think back on the John Mayer media meltdown.
The festival has launched the music careers of the likes of John Mayer and James Blunt.
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But they all lost out to John Mayer's Your Body Is A Wonderland.
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It's been two years since John Mayer released his breakthrough album, Room for Squares, and those two years have been good to him.
Mr. Giampaglia had to send YouTube videos of John Mayer before he could get the green light to hire the singer for a 2007 show.
The musician and renowned over-sharer John Mayer addressed a related point when he announced his TMI migration from Twitter to the Tumblr blogging platform.
The three-hour televised show also included performances from American Idol winners Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson, Garth Brooks and George Strait, and Brad Paisley and John Mayer.
Having opened for John Mayer, David Gray and The Swell Season at various points in the past year, this 25-year-old is proving to be more than just another promising singer-songwriter.
John Mayer joined Paisley for a guitar summit on "Beat This Summer" and Taylor Swift and Keith Urban joined Tim McGraw on stage for "Highway Don't Care, " which Urban finished off with a scorching guitar solo.
Heart, Randy Newman, Public Enemy and Rush are expected to perform at Thursday's star-studded event, while Usher will sing for Jones, Carole King will perform for Adler and John Mayer and Gary Clark Jr. will pay tribute to the late King.
The Rolling Stone received perhaps the most sustained standing ovation of the night as he joined his old pal toward the end of Crossroads, a two-night concert festival at Madison Square Garden that brought together a dazzling array of guitar masters, from John Mayer to Jeff Beck to legends like Buddy Guy, and of course, Clapton and Richards.
It may be as true for Marissa Mayer and Yahoo as it was for John Keats, Francis Bacon and the sonnet form: We make structural decisions not on the basis of overcoming or eliminating constraints, but on the careful, conscious choice of constraints.
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Billionaires like Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Jim Breyer, and John Doerr join other rising stars like Drew Houston, Marissa Mayer, and Max Levchin.
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With the exception of 72-year-old Rep. John Olver, each one is considered a possible contender, said Bill Mayer, a Northeastern University political scientist.
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