Cosmo Wilson
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Cosmo Wilson (born Charles Wilson February 18, 1961) is a Concert Lighting Designer and Director for rock & roll bands, and has been since 1986.
He has worked with over 40 acts including AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Foreigner, The Rolling Stones, David Lee Roth, the Scorpions and Rod Stewart.
He worked on the Rolling Stones "Steel Wheels" 1989 tour as Lighting Crew Chief before moving up to Lighting Director in February of 1990, where he spent the next 7 months touring Japan and Europe with both "Urban Jungle" and "Steel Wheels" shows.
He has worked with AC/DC since 1990, directing over 400 shows since then, including 1991's "Monsters of Rock" stadium tour, which finished in Moscow on September 28, 1991 at Tushino airfield, where it was estimated that there were over 500,000 fans in attendance, and was described as the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history.
In the Autumn of 2002, he traveled with the Scorpions on the most extensive rock & roll tour of the old Soviet Union ever undertaken at the time. They played 20 cities over the course of 6 weeks on a tour stretching from Ekaterinburg in the West to Vladivostock in the East.
He also has credit for several live concert films, the Rolling Stones Steel Wheels "At the Max" (1991) IMAX movie, Black Sabbath's "The Last Supper" (1999) and 3 films for AC/DC- "Live at Donnington" (1991), "No Bull" (1996) and "Stiff Upper Lip Live" (2001).
He is currently working with Foreigner.
[edit] External links
- Cosmo Wilson at the Internet Movie Database
- Cosmo on tour with the Scorpions- Lighting article about the 2004 Scorpions tour.
- "On the road with Cosmo" - Tour Diary
