The Spice Girls are still oceans apart when it comes to getting together.
First, it was Live 8 in 2005, and this time it's the July 1 tribute to Princess Diana that...
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President Bush is a celebrity in his own right, but he took time Wednesday to gaze at some stars.
Bush met with Irish rocker and anti-poverty activist Bono, music producer...
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Bob Geldof took over for a day as the editor of Germany's biggest-selling newspaper, which appeared Friday with an impassioned front-page plea for the country's leaders to...
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Bob Geldof, who organized the Live Aid and Live 8 benefit concerts, criticized the Live Earth music events Al Gore is putting together this summer, saying they lack a...
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When Al Gore throws a party, he doesn't mess around.
Organizers of the planet-spanning Live Earth concerts revealed on Tuesday the all-star lineups for the U.S....
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Welsh singer Charlotte Church, who has performed for President Clinton and Pope John Paul II, announced Thursday that she is pregnant. According to her Web site, Church and...
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Environmental activists led by
former U.S. Vice President Al Gore announced plans on Thursday
for a worldwide string of pop concerts in July featuring Sheryl Crow, Red Hot...
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Irish rock star and rights campaigner
Bono has been awarded an honorary British knighthood, the
British Embassy in Dublin said on Saturday.
"Her Majesty The Queen has...
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Flamboyant New York band the Scissor
Sisters dominated music sales in Britain for a second week as
they stayed at the top of both the singles and album charts.
Their...
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Leading British film and music stars urged the British government Saturday to help end fighting in the violence-wracked Sudanese region of Darfur.
Musicians Elton John and...
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Irish rocker Bob Geldof canceled two
concerts in Italy at the weekend because of poor ticket sales,
Italian newspapers reported.
Geldof decided not to perform the first...
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Sir Bob Geldof on Friday slammed New Zealand's foreign aid contribution as "pathetic" and a "disgrace" — earning an immediate rebuke from the nation's foreign...
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The world's richest countries are
falling short on pledges made last year to provide Africa with
life-saving AIDS drugs, expanded trade and increased aid,...
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Irish rock star and Third World
campaigner Bono turned guest newspaper editor on Tuesday with
Britain's Independent daily agreeing to give half its revenues
for the day to...
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Roger Waters is getting in touch with his Dark Side.
Pink Floyd's cofounder, original bassist and driving creative
force has announced he's taking to the road to perform...
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Anti-poverty campaigner and Live 8 organizer Sir Bob Geldof accused China on Monday of being responsible for the continuing civil war in Sudan's Darfur region.
The Irish...
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David Gilmour was midway through finishing his first solo project in more than two decades when he got a buzz from Bob Geldof — would he mind reuniting with fellow Pink...
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Thousands of Brazilians took a break from samba to rock with U2 frontman Bono during Carnival celebrations in the northeastern city of Salvador.
Bono performed an...
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Rock stars Bono and Bob Geldof were nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize along with Indonesia's president, a former U.S. secretary of state and a Finnish...
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The Arctic Monkeys' first album, "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not," has become the fastest-selling debut in British chart history, with sales of more than...
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Robbie Williams writhed, Shakira shouted and Madonna didn't show up, although all three won honors at one of France's biggest music awards shows.
Williams, voted best male...
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Already holding strong in 2004 amid
declining sales in most European countries, the British music
market experienced another reasonably healthy year in 2005.
That was...
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Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof was scheduled to receive a peace award in Rome on Thursday from a foundation headed by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Geldof is...
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Madonna will give the first global live
television performance from her new album on Thursday when she
appears at the MTV Europe Music Awards, a key showcase for the
music...
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A solitary white piano at a thought-provoking John Lennon retrospective in Paris invites visitors to play the song that everyone knows but, in these times of terrorism and...
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Fans of David Gray who want to hear
his biggest hit "Babylon" performed live as he tours to promote
his latest album may be disappointed because the
singer-songwriter is...
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Bonnie Raitt is being honored for her devotion to social, environmental and community issues by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers.
The singer-songwriter...
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Rockers Bob Geldof and Bono, two of the world's best known Africa fund-raisers, declared victory Friday in their campaign to push leaders at the G-8 summit to double aid to...
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Live 8 organizers don't want your money, and apparently neither do
the musicians who participated in the historic mega-concerts either.
While last Saturday's Live 8...
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Rock stars staged a final "Live 8"
concert in Edinburgh on Wednesday in a last-minute bid to press
world leaders gathering in nearby Gleneagles to do more to
alleviate...
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Three days after the Live 8 concerts were heard around the world,
their impact continues to reverberate.
The musical
extravaganza which took place in nine venues...
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Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof on Tuesday condemned the G-8 protest violence in Scotland's capital and said it would be "grotesquely irresponsible" for world leaders at the...
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After a galaxy of stars
rocked the world in the largest live concert ever held,
organizers on Sunday looked to a summit of rich nations to see
if people power would change...
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Top African musicians who have spent their lives fighting for change in Africa brought their music to the worldwide Live 8 audience on Saturday.
Senegalese superstar...
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Canadian favorite Tom Cochrane kicked off Canada's Live 8 concert with "Life is a Highway" before 35,000 roaring fans, moving the global event into North...
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African musicians lent their voices Saturday to Live 8's call for a fairer deal for the world's poorest continent, but Nelson Mandela elicited bigger cheers than any of the...
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In Berlin, Green Day proclaimed its majesty with a cover of Queen's "We Are the Champions" as R.E.M. performed "Man on the Moon" in London. And R.E.M. hadn't left the stage...
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An eclectic lineup including Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and The Cure united in the fight against African poverty at a Live 8 concert set amid one of France's greatest...
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They started by predicting a riot, but instead there was brotherly love at the U.S. version of the global Live 8 extravaganza.
"Right now you're watching the biggest...
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Thousands gathered in Rome's ancient Circus Maximus Saturday to watch Faith Hill, Duran Duran and a long list of Italian stars in one of 10 concerts across the globe to help...
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German crowd-pleasers Die Toten Hosen kicked off Berlin's Live 8 concert on Saturday, electrifying the crowd with a string of power anthems while reminding revelers that...
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Japanese rock fans flocked to Tokyo's
Live 8 concert on Saturday, but it was Icelandic singer Bjork
more than the more serious message about poverty that seemed to
be the...
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Icelandic singer Bjork rocked Tokyo on
Saturday, kicking off the biggest live music show in history
which aims to pressure world leaders to do more to fight
poverty.
Live...
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Organizers promise it will be the
greatest music show on Earth, as final preparations for the
Live 8 gigs are made and pop stars prepare to leave their egos
backstage to...
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Organizer Bob Geldof promises it will be
the greatest concert ever, as final preparations for the Live 8
gigs are made and hundreds of pop stars prepare to leave their
egos...
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Designed to raise consciousness about African poverty, the Live 8 concerts will feature some of black music's biggest stars — especially those representing...
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Two exhausted men have worked behind the
scenes, into the early hours, for eight weeks to pull off what
promises to be the greatest music show on earth.
Irish rocker Bob...
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Many of Italy's biggest pop stars have
shaken off their initial skepticism about Live 8 and agreed to
perform on the Rome stage of the international anti-poverty
rock...
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Academics and civil rights leaders
hope Live 8 concerts to press for action on poverty in Africa
will reawaken interest among black Americans in the continent
their...
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Sheryl Crow will not perform at Saturday's Live 8 concert in Paris, part of the worldwide Bob Geldof-organized event to raise awareness of poverty in Africa.
"Due to...
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Park Place in Barrie, Ontario,
doesn't quite have the same ring to it as Rome's Circus
Maximus, the Palace of Versailles, Hyde Park or the Brandenburg
Gate in Berlin as the...
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Bob Geldof makes an unlikely saint. The rangy, foul-mouthed Irish rocker who fronted the Boomtown Rats in the 1970s is now far better known as a champion of Africa,...
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Last time they wanted to feed the world,
this time they want to change it.
The 10 Live 8 concerts around the globe this Saturday take
their inspiration from the Live Aid...
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Those West End Boys are headed east end on a mission of hope.
The Pet Shop Boys have been tapped to headline the newly added
Moscow installment of Saturday's Live 8...
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Moscow has been added to the lineup of
Live 8 concerts on July 2 which aim to put pressure on world
leaders meeting the following week to do more to alleviate
extreme...
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Wrinkly rockers never die, they just do
charity gigs.
Teenage pop fans hoping to hail their heroes at Saturday's
Live 8 concerts are in for a rude awakening when headline...
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When aid groups approach the media to
draw attention to a problem, the response is more often "Who
have you got?" than "What is the issue?"
Driven by an insatiable...
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Live 8 organizers announced Monday they will distribute 55,000 free tickets for admission into London's Hyde Park to watch the concert on giant screens.
Organizers said...
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When aid groups approach the media to
draw attention to a problem, the response is more often "Who
have you got?" than "What is the issue?"
Driven by an insatiable...
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Bob Geldof, mastermind of the planned
Live 8 concerts to boost awareness of African poverty, called
on crowds at a British music festival on Saturday to join him
next week...
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Irish rock star Bob Geldof had to be
pushed hard before agreeing to coordinate the Live 8 concerts
next month to draw world leaders' attention to poverty in
Africa, one of...
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All you who missed out the ticket lottery or can't swing that
last-minute fare to London to see the anticipated Pink Floyd reunion,
fear not--Live 8 is going to be live in...
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Thanks to Scary Spice, Live 8 is in danger of a girl power
deficit.
Melanie Brown, the Scary fifth of the former
international chart-topping pop group the Spice Girls,...
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Bob Geldof told Italy's rock stars Tuesday
there was no excuse to miss the Rome stage of the Live 8
concert next month, as some of the country's top acts hesitated
over...
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Bryan Adams and Celine Dion will
perform for Canada's Live 8 concert, but Rolling Stones fans
expecting an appearance by the British rock legends get no
satisfaction,...
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Bob Geldof, the rock-star-turned
anti-poverty campaigner, called on Pope Benedict on Tuesday to
visit next month's G8 summit to add his voice to the throng of
people who...
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Destiny's Child and Linkin Park have been added to the lineup for the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia on July 2.
The additions were announced Thursday, one day after...
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Eight isn't nearly enough for Bob Geldof.
The charity
rocker behind the massive Live 8 shows aimed at raising awareness in
industrial countries of the problems in the...
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Africa is to get its own Live 8 concert,
taking the event to the continent whose problems it aims to
highlight, Irish rocker Bob Geldof said on Thursday.
Geldof and other...
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Internet auction site eBay has suspended
some of the accounts of users who sabotaged online sales of
free Live 8 concert tickets by making hoax bids of up to 10
million...
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Everybody knows Bob Geldof doesn't like Mondays. He apparently
can't tolerate scalpers--or their enablers--either.
The
ex-Boomtown Rat turned charity rock icon, lashed...
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African musicians will stage a concert
to coincide with major Live 8 charity events across Europe next
month, organizers said on Wednesday, after the main lineups
were...
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Organizers of the Live 8 concerts to raise awareness of poverty in Africa announced on Wednesday plans for a separate concert featuring African artists.
The event, called...
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The managing director of eBay said the Internet auction Web site would withdraw tickets for sale for the London Live 8 concert.
Sought-after tickets for show to raise the...
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Sought-after tickets for a London concert to raise the profile of poverty in Africa are being sold for inflated prices on the Internet before even being issued — and...
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The wall has come tumbling down.
After nearly a
quarter century of acrimony, the classic lineup of Pink Floyd, including
band cofounder and creative force Roger Waters,...
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Music fans broke a world record when
they sent more than 2 million text messages to try to get
tickets for next month's Live 8 concert in London, the Guinness
Book of...
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The line-up of performers for Bob Geldof's upcoming "Live 8" concert in London for African
poverty relief was criticized by British artist Damon Albarn on
Friday as being...
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Twenty years later, it is still considered one of the greatest rock 'n' roll concerts of all time. During Live Aid, top musicians played simultaneous shows in London and...
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The line-up of stars in Bob Geldof's
Live 8 concert for Africa in London was criticized by Brit
artist Damon Albarn on Friday for being "too damn Anglo-Saxon."
Twenty...
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They'll be grooving to Coldplay in London, rapping along with Will Smith in Philly, dancing mbalax with Youssou N'Dour in Paris. But in African cities and villages, they'll...
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Rock supergroup Velvet Revolver abruptly cut short its overseas tour Tuesday, leaving many wondering if the band's future was in jeopardy.
A newspaper and television...
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Live 8 is up to six.
Annie Lennox, Dido and Travis are
among the artists signing on to headline a sixth Live 8 concert, this
one in the Scottish city of Edinburgh,...
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Organizers of the Live 8 concerts aimed at promoting awareness of poverty in Africa have announced a lineup of artists to play at a sixth concert in Scotland next...
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Dido, Annie Lennox, Travis and Texas
will take the stage in Scotland for a sixth Live 8 rock concert
to press world leaders to fight African poverty at next month's
G8...
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A texting lottery for tickets to
London's star-studded Live 8 charity concert opened on Monday
with hundreds of thousands expected to spend up to 20 million
pounds competing...
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Paul McCartney is working on attracting a new generation of fans.
The former Beatle has signed on to write a children's book
titled High in the Clouds: An Urban Furry...
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Will an Internet leak leave Coldplay frozen out of
record-setting first-week sales?
Just days before its
official U.S. release, the band's hotly anticipated new...
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Bob Geldof is aiming to galvanize the
world to aid Africa with his Live 8 concerts next month and
thousands of people will demonstrate in Scotland as leaders of
the world's...
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Twenty years after the Live Aid concerts, musical superstars are joining in a five-city spectacular to push a political solution for African poverty.
"We don't want...
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Bob Geldof is at it again.
Two decades after he
masterminded Live Aid, the largest charity concert ever mounted, to
fight famine in Africa, the 58-year-old...
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Charity rocker Bob Geldof on Tuesday
announced plans for five star-studded concerts aimed at
pressuring world leaders into eradicating African poverty.
Twenty years after...
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London's Hyde Park, Circus Maximus in Rome and the Museum of Art in Philadelphia are among the venues for Live 8, a series of concerts being organized by Bob Geldof, the...
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Organizers of the 1985 Live Aid concert are announcing plans Monday for a similar star-studded event next month aimed at raising money and awareness to fight poverty just...
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Organizers of the 1985 Live Aid concert are announcing plans Monday for a similar star-studded event next month aimed at raising money and awareness to fight poverty just...
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Two decades after the original Live Aid, when rock stars raised money for Ethiopian famine relief, singer-activist Bob Geldof is planning another star-studded, humanitarian...
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Two decades after the original Live Aid, when rock stars descended on Philadelphia and London to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief, singer-activist Bob Geldof is...
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Live Aid founders Bob Geldof and Midge Ure confirmed Thursday they are planning a star-studded concert to fight poverty in Africa — but insisted it wouldn't be Live Aid...
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An "ecstatic" Elton John joined a host of British celebrities Thursday for the opening night of fleet-footed musical "Billy Elliot."
The rock legend wrote the music for...
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"We Are the World," the pioneering
all-star charity anthem that generated millions of dollars for
African famine relief 20 years ago, is returning to the world
stage -- this...
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Retro rock group Franz Ferdinand received five nominations for Britain's music awards. The Glasgow-based quartet, who won the $37,400 Mercury Music Prize in September,...
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It was No. 1 in 1984, and it's No. 1 again in 2004. The star-studded re-recording of the hit charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" hit the top of the British music...
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A new recording of Irish rock star
Bob Geldof 's 1984 Band Aid hit to help starving people in
Africa finds the continent even more widely gripped by famine
and shortages,...
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A new recording of the 1984 charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" hit British record stores, many of which opened early in anticipation of large crowds.
The single...
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Pop musicians have re-recorded the
charity mega-hit "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise funds
for African relief.
But critics wonder whether the question asked...
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Twenty years after the release of one of
the biggest singles of all time, leading British artists
gathered on Sunday to re-record the Bob Geldof -inspired charity
hit "Do...
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After almost two decades of refusing to rebroadcast the Live Aid famine-relief concert, organizer Bob Geldof said he changed his mind because of the large number of bootleg...
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After almost two decades of refusing to rebroadcast the Live Aid famine-relief concert, organizer Bob Geldof said Sunday he had, reluctantly, changed his...
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The founders of Band Aid, the 1984 charity effort that raised millions for Ethiopian famine relief, plan a new version of the single "Do They Know It's Christmas," a British...
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Mother, do you think they'll like the show?
Yes,
Pink Floyd fans, Miramax and former Sony Music boss Tommy Mottola are
getting ready to build The Wall on Broadway.
...
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Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is
coming to the Great White Way.
Miramax Films has pacted with former Sony Music chief Tommy
Mottola to develop and produce a Broadway musical...
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The historic 1985 Live Aid concert
will finally be released on DVD in the fall.
Earlier this year, the Band Aid Trust agreed to auction the
global rights for the concerts...
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Bob Geldof is denying British media reports that he's putting on another "Live Aid" concert.
The British tabloid The Sun reported that the Boomtown Rats' singer had...
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Irish rock star Bono is planning a
repeat of the 1985 Live Aid concerts to raise money to help
ease third world debt, The Sun newspaper said on Monday.
Bob Geldof , the...
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Duran Duran is close to signing to
Epic Records, sources have told Billboard.com.
For several months, reports have surfaced that Epic parent
Sony Music was a leading...
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European Union president Ireland has
canceled a major open-air concert in Dublin that was to be the
centerpiece of its celebrations to mark the historic
enlargement of the...
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The custodians of the historic 1985
Live Aid charity concerts have given the green light for their
official DVD and video release.
The Band Aid Trust has agreed to auction...
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American superstar Justin Timberlake won the best international male award at the Brit Awards, a glitzy showbiz ceremony in London, on Tuesday night.
The Darkness,...
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If someone compiled a list of the
most commercially successful and prolific producers in
R&B/hip-hop, Timbaland's name would likely be near the top of
the list.
In less...
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Prime Minister Tony Blair met Tuesday with Bob Geldof , the Irish pop star turned activist who drew attention to Ethiopia's 1984 famine, to discuss Africa and wider...
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Organizers of the Nelson
Mandela-inspired "46664" AIDS -awareness and fundraising
campaign are claiming the biggest TV and radio audience for any
single music...
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Beyonce Knowles , Bono, Peter Gabriel and other musicians from around the world took to the stage for an AIDS benefit concert hosted by former South African President...
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Bono, The Corrs, Beyonce Knowles and
other international stars answered Nelson Mandela's call to
help fight the scourge of AIDS Saturday, putting on a musical
extravaganza...
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Bob Geldof's first album in nearly a decade, Sex, Age & Death, arrived in stores on Tuesday (August 27).
In the time since the release of the former Boomtown Rats...
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Bob Geldof has seen more highs and lows than most people see in their lifetimes, and it was some recent low points that inspired his latest solo effort, Sex, Age & Youth,...
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Former Boomtown Rats frontman ("I Don't Like Mondays") and Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof can be seen in a new British television ad aimed at recruiting police officers....
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British television personality Paula Yates was found dead in her Notting Hill apartment Sunday (September 17). Yates was the late INXS singer Michael Hutchence's partner at...
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Bob Geldof, whose humanitarian efforts via Live Aid won him a knighthood, is being condemned by his former band's drummer for being a penny-pinching pervert.
Geldof's...
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Former Boomtown
Rat and Live Aid good Samaritan Bob
Geldof has refused to publicly address accusations made by his ex-wife, Paula Yates, that his actions...
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