Dozens of the world’s leading musical performers will come together this summer for five separate concerts in five different cities for Live 8. The huge event will take place on 2nd July as part of the Make Poverty History Campaign backed by Sir Bob Geldof, who also organised the historical Live Aid in 1985 – a charity fundraising event to aid the Ethiopia famine.
More than 150,000 people are expected to join the event at Hyde Park, for what is set to be London’s largest free concert in history.
Stars attending the event are backing the huge awareness event, which has the purpose of relieving poverty and debt in poor nations across Africa and the world.
The seemingly endless list of musical stars backing the event and rumoured to join the concerts across the five cities.
In London, celebrities such as Sting, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Dido, Coldplay, Sir Elton John, Robbie Williams, Sir Paul McCartney, Keane, Snow Patrol, Joss Stone, Stereophonics and REM with more acts likely to be announced.
In Philadelphia Stevie Wonder will headline the event; in Berlin Brian Wilson; in Rome Duran Duran will play, where as in Paris Jamiroquai is set to appear.
Live 8 is being promoted as ‘one concert across two continents in five cities with 100 rock stars’. The event has been scheduled to coincide with the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland – which is a gathering of 8 of the world’s most powerful leaders running the richest nations on the planet.
The event’s plans were unveiled yesterday by Geldof who passionately said that Live 8 was "a unique opportunity for Britain to do something unparalleled in the world."
