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...Bob Geldof gave birth to Live Aid, the groundbreaking rock-concert series that raised $200 million for African famine relief. Bono of U2 and Richard Curtis (screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill) were there. That day inspired them to learn more about Africa and ultimately form their own antipoverty campaigns. Now the three friends are organizing Live 8, a series of free international concerts to be held on July 2 with unprecedented star power (Will Smith is host of a hip-hop-heavy show in Philadelphia; Pink Floyd will reunite in London on the same bill...
...BOB, FOR YEARS YOU INSISTED YOU WOULD NEVER REVIVE LIVE...
...BOB GELDOF Not to be immodest, but the first one was perfect in almost every sense. Artistically, people seemed to up the ante, and the performances were pretty great across the board. Huge amounts of money were raised, not a penny lost, and politically it elevated the issue onto the global table. The whole thing just worked, unbelievably. So you f___ with that legacy at your peril. Then there's the personal thing. David Bowie was on a high afterward, and he said, "Let's do this every year." I said, "Go on, you f_______ do it then...
BONO Had there been real coordination, we would have been announcing this six months ago, not six weeks ago. It was all a bit haphazard actually. Bob didn't want to repeat himself, and he has a word he uses better than anyone else in the English language, and he just kept repeating that word followed by "off." [Much laughter.] I remember saying, "Look, Bob, if you don't want to do it, please, just don't tell anyone," because the mere threat of staging it at some point actually keeps a fair bit of pressure on certain politicians...
...Neil Young's Helpless, among other tunes. The message is clear: there are many still-working seniors who don't have the luxury of playing golf and watching their 401(k)s grow. Much of the humor that is a big part of their theatrical approach comes courtesy of Bob Cilman, 51, an accomplished artistic director and the group's founder. The performers' Road to Heaven is set in a surreal nursing home where, in the opening scene, chorus members wear prairie bonnets and cowboy hats. The repertoire includes Every Breath You Take by the Police, Led Zeppelin's Stairway...