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...Edinburgh Evening News read "URE GOING TO CAUSE CHAOS," echoing the alarm of local authorities, who may be unprepared for such an influx and forced to rent portable toilets from the Continent. Live 8 downplayed the call to march, but by then faced fresh criticism - that although Paul McCartney, U2, Madonna and other rock royalty are signed up, few black performers and only one African will appear. At the press conference, one participant pronounced himself content, however. Elton John says that at the original gig in 1985, "I was pretty much a self-obsessed drug addict." At least that...
...right moments. Green has turned trash into gold before (the Bee Gees' How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?), but this time he excels himself. Shout Out Louds Very Loud Singer Adam Olenius broadcasts his influences with his vocal cords (the Cure's Robert Smith and U2's Bono), but his swing from nonchalant weariness to faint glimmer of hope on this up-tempo heartbreak tune is so winning it almost sounds new. Akon Lonely Senegal-born, U.S.-raised Akon starts his tale of abandonment with typical woe. Then the chorus - a sample of Bobby Vinton's Mr. Lonely, played...
...there were great moments in the music. Elvis Costello asking the Wembley audience to join him in "this old northern English folk song" and performing a peerless acoustic guitar version of All You Need Is Love. Bono of the Irish band U2 singing a mesmeric Bad. Sting duetting with Phil Collins on Every Breath You Take. Bob Dylan, singing a set of early songs and suggesting that a small portion of the Live Aid donations be used to help American farmers pay off mortgages. But the video superstructure constructed to beam the event across the world became an open...
...Singer Adam Olenius broadcasts his influences with his vocal cords (the Cure's Robert Smith and U2's Bono), but his swing from nonchalant weariness to faint glimmer of hope on this up-tempo heartbreak tune is so winning it almost sounds...
...recording industry has gained a new partner in its myopic campaign of strict copyright law enforcement: the publishing industry. What publishers oppose, however, is far more significant than the freedom to shuffle between Bruce Hornsby and U2 on an iPod. When a group of publishers announced last week that they disapproved of a Harvard University Libraries (HUL) project to digitize a portion of Harvard’s books, they declared their hostility toward the enrichment and advancement of the academic world...