Most classic rock fans remember one thing about Live 8: Pink Floyd. When Live 8 took place on July 2 and 6, 2005, it was billed as a series of benefit concerts to help commemorate that summer's G8 ...

Roger Waters' relationship with David Gilmour was so distant in the period before Pink Floyd's celebrated reunion at Live 8 that Waters had to ask organizer Bob Geldof for his former bandmate's phone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. L-R: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Rick Wright at Live 8 London in Hyde Park, 2 July 2005 (Getty) Live Aid lied to ...

The Live 8 concerts scheduled for this weekend are aimed at raising global public awareness of the challenges confronting Africa. Madeleine Brand speaks with Philadelphia Inquirer music critic Dan ...

Twenty years after a scruffy one-hit wonder first demonstrated his gift for lofty dreams and grandiose statements, hundreds of the world’s top performers and more than 1 million fans united for 10 ...

In what was dubbed “the final push,” the last Live 8 concert took place in Edinburgh on July 6 as heads of state assembled at Gleneagles for the G8 conference. A rain-soaked crowd of 50,000 heard ...

It was one of the biggest charity campaigns of the century. A series of benefit concerts - starring U2, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Madonna - aimed a simple message at world leaders: “Make ...

Philadelphia, PA – Today, ONE volunteers from across America joined community leaders, activists and Live 8 artists and celebrities to kick-off the Philadelphia Live 8 Concert by delivering 300,000 ...

Live Aid lied to us. It would be 20 years from that legendary transatlantic charity knees-up before an all-star Bob Geldof production would rock all over the world. That happening – minus Status Quo ...