Maye-E Wong/Associated PressBernie Ecclestone joined the Black Eyed Peas in the garage of the Ferrari team at the Singapore Grand Prix of 2009. The group will play at Ecclestone’s daughter’s wedding.
It is no coincidence that Bernie Ecclestone has hired Eric Clapton and the Black Eyed Peas to perform at the marriage of his daughter, Petra. Formula One racing – and auto racing in general – goes together with music, especially rock music. And in recent years, the Formula One paddock has played host to a lot of musicians who are also fans.
Eric Clapton has come to the paddock two or three times, if not more, and the Black Eyed Peas were part of the new business F1 got involved in during 2008 when it began matching races with rock music concerts.
Clapton also, by the way, played on a video of a song written and played by Jackie Stewart’s son for his father’s 70th birthday in 2009. So it is not surprising to see that Clapton will play — for a fee, of course. That is understood to be £240,000 for Clapton and more than three times that for the Black Eyed Peas.
Petra, 22, and her fiance, James Stunt, already had an engagement party with Rihanna performing — and the latter ended up visiting the Canadian Grand Prix paddock in Montreal. The wedding next week will take place in the 15th century Odescalchi Castle, where Tom Cruise married Katie Holmes.