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Website. www.live8live.com. Live 8 ( French: En direct 8, German: Live 8, Italian: Vivi 8, Japanese: ライブ8 (romanised: Raibu 8), Russian: Прямой эфир 8 (romanised: Pryamoy efir 8)) was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa. They were timed to precede the G8 conference ...
Jonathan Ross and Ricky Gervais in the BBC TV studio at Live 8 with the concert audience in the background. In the United Kingdom, the BBC provided full television coverage, starting on BBC Two from 13:00 and continuing from 18:15 on BBC One, right up to the end of the concert at 00:00. The advertised changeover time was 16:15, disappointing ...
Harriet Thorpe (also appeared in London) Herbert Grönemeyer (also appeared in Berlin) James Brown. Jamie Cullum. Jill Greenacre (also appeared in London) Katherine Jenkins (also appeared in Berlin) Lenny Henry (presenter, also appeared in London) Maxi Jazz. Mahotella Queens.
On 2 July 2005, a Live 8 concert was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with a densely packed audience stretched out for one mile along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. [1] The event was organized by the ONE Campaign . It was one of the first Live 8 concerts announced, as the city had ...
Italian singer Vasco Rossi surpassed the record with his solo concert on July 1, 2017 with a total of 225,173 tickets sold at Modena Park. The concert was a celebration of his 40 years of career. Although the attendance numbers of free concerts are known to be exaggerations, several concerts have been reported to have a million audience or more.
On 2 July 2005 Pink Floyd performed at the London Live 8 concert with Roger Waters rejoining David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright. It was the quartet's first performance together in over 24 years, having not performed in that configuration since a 17 June 1981 gig at Earls Court in London as part of a charitable fundraiser.
Hot Fuss Tour. (2003–05) Sam's Town Tour. (2006–07) The Hot Fuss Tour was the first headlining concert tour by American rock band The Killers. It took place between 2003 and 2005 to support the band's first studio album, Hot Fuss, which was released in June 2004. The tour was enduring with the band playing well over 300 shows in a two-year ...
Live Earth was a one-off event developed to combat climate change.The first series of benefit concerts were held on July 7, 2007. The concerts brought together more than 150 musical acts in twelve locations around the world which were broadcast to a mass global audience through televisions, radio, and streamed via the Internet.