@kem_manages_concerts: David Bowie performs Wake Up with Arcade Fire at the Fashion Rocks event at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on 9/8/2005. Fashion Rocks was an annual international charity fundraiser event, which featured fashions by the world's top designers presented as live performances by popular music acts. This yeats event kicked off New York Fashion Week. Wake Up is an indie rock song by Canadian rock band Arcade Fire. It was the fifth and final single released from the band's debut album, Funeral. The single was released as a one-sided 7" vinyl record on November 14, 2005. In 2009, NME ranked "Wake Up" as the 25th best song of the decade, and in 2014 ranked "Wake Up" as the 25th greatest song of all-time. In June 2011, Rolling Stone ranked "Wake Up" as the 42nd best song of the 2000s. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 22 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". In 2014, Pitchfork described the chorus of "Wake Up" as "one of the most thrilling, bracing moments in recent rock history", placing it in a tradition of anthemic classic rock wordless crescendos including "Born to Run", "Biko", and "Hey Jude". Pitchfork credited the chorus with inspiring "the most ubiquitous vocal device in contemporary rock": "a relentless procession of 'woah-oh-oh-ohs!' and 'ho yeahs!' and 'heys!' and songs filled with so many 'hos!' and 'heys!', that there's no choice but to give them titles like 'Ho Hey.'" The trend drove the popularity of "indie-oriented big-ticket music festivals" where acts could initiate engagement with larger crowds through "non-lyrical, group-chorus peer pressure." As of June 2024, "Wake Up" holds the number 86 spot on Rate Your Music's Top Singles of the 2000s

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