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Live 8 organisers have announced the release of 55,000 extra free tickets to the star-studded concert.
The additional places will allow people to watch Saturday’s event at Hyde Park live on giant screens.
Pairs of tickets will be handed out free of charge from Wednesday at selected venues in London and around the UK, organisers said.
Bob Geldof said: “This is going to be the biggest event in Hyde Park’s history and the biggest ticketed event ever in the UK.
“The park will be filled to the brim. In other cities around the country and around the world, millions of people will be joining in to make poverty history. It will be one of those defining moments that come around once in a generation.”
The announcement followed “detailed discussions” with the Royal Parks, Westminster City Council and police, organisers said.
Space for the additional numbers has been allocated south of the Serpentine Lake. The finish time for the event has been extended from 8pm to 9.30pm.
Organisers urged people without tickets not to come, saying that room was limited due to “the massive infrastructure and huge numbers with tickets”.
Saturday’s show, with an actual audience of 150,000, will include Madonna, Robbie Williams and Sir Paul McCartney. The concert will highlight poverty and debt in developing countries, just days before the leaders of the world’s richest countries meet in Scotland.
The 55,000 extra tickets will be available from 3pm on Wednesday June 29, with doors closing at 7pm and reopening at 10am next morning.
source : reuters

Rock ‘n’ roll is all about excess – so with MTV providing selected TV coverage, AOL Webcasting the entire event (at aolmusic.com) and XMsatellite radio broadcasting all the shows as well the hardest part of this historic event is deciding when too much is just enough.
*The London concert begins at 6 a.m. local time July 2 on Saturday. Take a breath: Pink Floyd, Bob Geldof, U2, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Coldplay, R.E.M., Sting, Mariah Carey, Travis, Snoop Dogg, The Killers, Keane, Joss Stone, Dido, Robbie Williams, Elton John and Pink Floyd.
Okay, Pink Floyd was mentioned twice but that’s how musically historic this reunion – after nearly a quarter century – is. No individual gig times have been announced.
*The Philadelphia show starts at noon on Saturday, and has one of the best line-ups. The Dave Matthews Band, Stevie Wonder, Kaiser Chiefs, Linkin Park, Bon Jovi and Destiny’s Child headline. While Jay-Z has been announced as a participant, rumors persist that the rap mogul has bowed out of the event.
*Selections get easier outside of London and Philly. In Paris at the Palais de Versailles, sexy Shakira is the act that’ll make the French go oo-la-la, but no doubt the rejuvenated Cure featuring a decidedly non gloomy Robert Smith will also be a favorite. Lauryn Hill plays Berlin, and Rome has probably the weirdest lineups – a spaghetti western featuring Tim McGraw and his wife Faith Hill. Visit live8live.com for more.
source : newyorkpost

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Live 8 concerts organized by Bob Geldof to raise awareness of African poverty could become the largest global broadcast as they hope to attract more than the 3.9 billion viewers who were able to watch the Athens Olympic Games.
Organizers said on Saturday they were confident they could beat that figure after attracting 140 television networks around the world to show next week’s anti-poverty concerts.
They said millions would also watch the likes of U2, Madonna, Stevie Wonder and Sheryl Crow via the Internet.
Twenty years ago, Geldof organized the Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia, which raised more than $100 million to help fight famine in Ethiopia and attracted an estimated 1.5 billion viewers.
This time, rather than raise money, he has organized eight free concerts to raise the profile of African poverty and increase pressure on world leaders to act.
The concerts will all be held on July 2, days before a Group of Eight (G8) summit of the world’s leading industrialized nations opens at the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland.
Organizers of the concerts say the addition of the Internet will have a huge impact on viewing figures and point to an American soap that last week attracted more viewers via the Internet than through television.
“This … live broadcast … will be the first to truly embrace the powerful broadband Internet,” Live 8 executive producer Kevin Wall said in a statement.
The International Olympic Committee estimates that 3.9 billion people “had access to the images of the (2004) Games.”
The concerts will be staged in Japan, Germany, France, Italy, the United States, South Africa, Canada and Britain.
A ninth may be staged in Moscow, organizers said on Friday, and a separate concert is being held in Edinburgh on July 6, some 40 miles from where the G8 leaders will be meeting.
“Everyone in the world will have the opportunity to view … this event and collectively we will come together to have our voices heard,” Wall said.
source : reuters

40 – It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me – Billy Joel
39 – Our Lips Are Sealed – The Go-Go’s
38 – Making Plans For Nigel – XTC
37 – I Ran – A Flock Of Seagulls
36 – White Lines – Grandmaster Flash
35 – Radio Free Europe – REM
34 – Rebel Yell – Billy Idol
33 – I Will Follow – U2
32 – Take On Me – A-HA
31 – Tainted Love – Soft Cell
30 – Never Say Never – Romeo Void
29 – Mirror In The Bathroom – The English Beat
28 – Blister In The Sun – Violent Femmes
27 – Bizarre Love Triangle – New Order
26 – Let’s Go To Bed – The Cure
25 – Burning Up – Madonna
24 – Satisfaction – Devo
23 – Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
22 – Debaser – The Pixies
21 – Warm Leatherette – The Normal
20 – Pop Musik – M
19 – I Found That Essence Rare – Gang Of Four
18 – Pump It Up – Elvis Costello
17 – Enola Gay – OMD
16 – House Of Jealous Lovers – The Rapture
15 – One Way Or Another – Blondie
14 – The Look Of Love – ABC
13 – Roadrunner – The Modern Lovers
12 – This Charming Man – The Smiths
11 – Life During Wartime – The Talking Heads
10 – Just Can’t Get Enough – Depeche Mode
9 – Good Times Roll – The Cars
8 – Opportunities – Pet Shop Boys
7 – Pretty In Pink – Psychedelic Furs
6 – Hungry Like The Wolf – Duran Duran
5 – Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
4 – Don’t You Want Me – Human League
3 – When You Were Mine – Prince
2 – 52 Girls – B-52’s
1 – Cars – Gary Numan

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Madonna has something very special lined up for her Live 8 performance.
The Queen of Pop will sing Like A Prayer with a gospel choir of African children.
source : thesun

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Donna De Lory will head London this weekend where she be will accompanying Madonna at this years Live 8 benefit concert in London’s Hyde Park! After she spends a week in rehearsals, she will hit the stage with Madonna on July 2nd to put on what is sure to be a spectacular show! Other artists taking to the stage during this benefit are: Sting, U2, Annie Lennox, Coldplay, Dido, Sir Elton John, Keane, Mariah Carey, REM, Robbie Williams, Travis, and many more.
source : donnadelory.net

“Fallen idol”
What’s Madonna doing writing yet another moral-heavy children’s book? And why has she become such a vocal supporter of Kabbala? Dina Rabinovitch, a long-time fan, jumped at the chance to ask her straight out – but was left distinctly unimpressed by her answers.
A day in the life of the Ritchies. Kids at school, Madonna at her computer. She has a book deal to write children’s stories – the only problem is, there’s nothing on the screen yet. “It didn’t come easily,” she says. “I’m methodical, so I set aside time to sit at my computer – of course, in the time that the children are at school – for four hours every day, but nothing came out. My husband [the film-maker Guy Ritchie] said: ‘Write what you know about, and it will come, and then you edit out the bits you don’t like.’ And he was right – that worked.”
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Madonna, the original material girl, is on the fifth of her moral-heavy children’s books. Lotsa de Casha is published this week and the message is, money can’t buy happiness. Her first children’s book, The English Roses, was launched in London, with a celebrity-studded rooftop party. The author – much prettier in real life than in photos, and very tiny – was surrounded by heavies and nobody was allowed to approach. This time she is publicising her book in New York, but she has decided to give two UK interviews, to the Guardian and Grazia magazine. Madonna will phone me, I’m told, not the other way around, and it will be at 9.40pm British time. And sure enough, to the second, she does: “Hi, this is Madonna.”
She sounds just like a regular New Yorker – quiet voice, clear American accent. So, fellow American, I don’t do the English dance of politeness, but come straight out with the questions I’m really curious about.
I ask about the Kabbala Centre, of which she has become an habituA