by
Mark Connor
© Copyright 2009, Mark Connor
The Scott LeDoux Concert to fight ALS—Hope for a Cure-Help for Caregivers—will be held Friday, April 10, 2009 at Champions Event Center, Elko, MN. LeDoux recently revealed that he has been diagnosed with the degenerative illness, ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. After a career including challenging for the Heavyweight Championship of the World, fights against a total of eight World Heavyweight Champions, an exhibition with Muhammad Ali and sparring partner duties with Mike Tyson, LeDoux has worked with charitable organizations for decades. For this benefit his good friend, Frank Stallone, who contended for an Oscar nomination with the song “Far from Over” on the Staying Alive soundtrack and is known for “Take You Back” and other classics, will be the feature performer. Also playing will be Alex Ligertwood, former lead singer for Santana; Jimi Jamison, who with the band Survivor sang the Rocky III anthem “Eye of the Tiger”; and Fergie Frederiksen, former lead singer of Toto. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.
LeDoux’s friendship with Stallone goes back to the seventies, highlighted publicly with the exhibition they boxed in 1978. While some of Stallone’s best known singing and acting work has been in the series of Rocky films, he has appeared in numerous television and cinematic projects, including the role of Eddie the bartender in Barfly with Mickey Rourke. Further information on the Hope for a Cure—Help for Caregivers event can be found at the Minnesota Chapter of the ALS Association, including details of a silent and a live auction and T-shirt sales. Information on Frank Stallone is at http://www.frankstallone.com/.
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