Live Aid v Live 8
 

For those old enough to have watched both concerts, which was the best?


I was twenty when l watched Live Aid, just about to start the last year of my degree at Art School, and just about to spend the Summer in Germany working for a fashion magazine. lt's a bit strange though because in the intervenining twenty years l've only reached the age of 34???

Best acts of the show-
1985- Queen
2005- Robbie Williams/ Madonna.

While Madonna is still able to re-invent herself and make her relevant to contemporary music, l'll never be old. For an old bird she rocks. Keep it up Madge.

Biggest dissapointment-
1985- Prince Charles wearing a tie and looking daggers at a bopping Diana.
2005- Pink Floyd. lt may have been 24 years since they last played together, but as always it just sounded to me like a lot of musical masterbation, and a strange act to close with.

Watching yesterday did make me realise how quickly time passes, but also how little people through music can make a difference.

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Live Aid was the best because it was about a 'moment' - but Live 8 was a much slicker concert.

Robbie was without doubt the best.

What on earth were Pink Floyd doing there at all? Aging rockers who weren't even cool in 1985.

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Everyone seems to like Pink Floyd, I don't think theres anything special about their music at all :S

U2 and Sir Paul was a good opening :)

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I was only 10 yr old first time round and don't remember too much about it, but Live 8 rocked. Unfortunatley I was at work, so I only heard it on the radio, but it was cracking. Robbie Williams played around 10pm, and they said after that he was 'the best performance of the day' and that 'he'd stolen the show'. Not bad for a 'fat dancer from Take That'!

Also enjoyed hearing acts from the other venues, espec Bon Jovi (they're touring over here next summer).

Generally looking forward to actually watching some of the coverage.

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live 8 was the best by far

because it was a shorter concert than live aid there was less of bob geldof to put up with

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I got married that day in 85, How can I forget. Len should know he was there.

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I can't remember enough of the first one to be able to make a good comparison but what I do know is, I really enjoyed yesterdays performances, I had it on all day then went out round Town at night and they had it on in the pubs, I caught Sting and Robbie in The Warners and yes the 'fat dancer from Take That' is still one of the most sexiest men in pop :D !

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To all the cynics out there, what does it matter if egos were massaged?

If only one child was saved from starving to death was that not worth it?

Hate to contradict anyone, especially my little Tink, but it was Gary Barlow who was called the fat dancer from Take That.

Fact- 20,000 people die of starvation or AIDS related illness everyday. Hardly comparable with the poverty in this country.

Scissor Sister and The Killers also rocked, bring it on. :)

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Did we all sign the live 8 list? If not you should do so, I heard on the radio today over 25 million names on it so far.

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Live Aid certainly had pulling power. I remember being glued to the telly. It was the most powerful music event in the world at the time. I missed a lot of Live 8 due to work commitments but did manage to catch Madonna who was a class act. I also managed to catch Geldof's rather poor rendition of Don't Like Mondays. I'm peeved that I missed the Scissor Scissors and Robbie but that's life.:D

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That's why we're staging LIVE 8. 10 concerts, 100 artists, a million spectators, 2 billion viewers, and 1 message... To get those 8 men, in that 1 room, to stop 30,000 children dying every single day of extreme poverty.

We don't want your money - we want you!


Well, according to Geldof, Live 8 is not Live Aid 2. Like Leonard, Part 6, this “sequel” is meant to stand on its own merit. Live 8 will bring together over 100 different musical acts in 10 different cities and is scheduled just before the July 6-9 meeting of the G8 Leaders. It is a coordinated musical effort to get the G8 leaders to start tapping their feet and humming along, thereby canceling African debt, injecting new money into the continent and “delivering trade justice.” Whatever that means. Hey, Bono’s gonna be there!!
· Price of a bottle of water: $6
· Percentage of things made of hemp (excluding actual narcotics): 73
· Times President Bush was called a criminal: 65.5
· Times President Bush was called a war criminal: 49.5
· Ounces of hair product that Bono uses: 22
· Shout-outs by Bono to Kofi Annan: 3
· “Mourn you ‘til I join you” shout-outs by Bono to Pope JP the 2: 4
· Protesters: 150,000
· Protesters protesting issues that are totally unrelated to the cause Live 8 is advocating: 100,000
· Food consumed by concert goers (in pounds): 250,000


· Number of starving Africans food consumed by concert goers could feed: 750,000

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I saw glimpses of Live Aid, and I made sure that I totally missed Live 8.

I've got better things to do with my life than watch telly for several hours, listening to music, a lot of which I am probably not that keen on. The music that I do like I have in my collection already.

Anyway, it wasn't aimed at me - it was aimed at the people at Gleneagles who make the decisions.

I saw an interesting snippet on the BBC news during the week. Joss Stone was doing an interview, and she pretty much admitted that she didn't really understand why she was doing it.

If the rest of the similar age performers were of similar mind, it pretty much renders it useless, does it not?

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Joss Stone?...Aretha could blow her off stage anyday!

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just caught floyd back at the hotel in norwich,i love em an those that don't can kiss my bum lol,can't really compare the 2 cos thats all i saw of the second one,but agree with rindy if it helps one starving kid all the cynics can kiss it as well-i'm back lol

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How do you discover you like anything new if you stick with what you already know ?

I read an interview with eighteen year old Joss Stone, who wasn't even born in '85. In it she said she knew very little about the original concept behind Live Aid, just as 20 years before l was born, l knew very little about the end of WW II.

Yesterday was about education.

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Don't be so diplomatic, Mr C, tell 'em what you really think!:)

Most ordinary people from third world countries (my missus, for example) can tell you tales of aid falling into the wrong hands. But it's a bit like carpet bombing, really. If some of it reaches its intended target and saves lives, then it's worth it. Hmmm...maybe carpet bombing isn't such a good comparison, but you know what I mean!

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some might not figure that one out lol

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Which was the best?

Errrrrr

One had Queen in it and one had several poor covers of Queen in it.
It must be Live Aid was the best then.

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It was a laudable effort......but it was just a concert.......and although the performers were not paid, they all got 'goodie bags' worth £7000.......now tell me I'm being a cynical old Burger if you like......but do these folk really need such inducements. Oh, and who's betting that there will be recordings of the concert on sale soon and we'll all be coughing up our hard earned readies to capture a piece of it.......profits.....? bet they aren't donated to Africa.
And.....just while I'm up here on the soap box.......don't you think it was OBSCENE of Bill Gates to go on stage.......what was that all about........? He could wipe out the debt in Africa without even feeling it.

Africa doesn't need AID....what Africa needs is TRADE! And the ousting of corrupt governments.

We could repeat this episode every three years and still be no nearer a solution.

SORRY.....but that's how I feel.

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Bush has said that he will drop subsidies for American farmers, if the EU drop theirs, thus allowing African farmers to compete on a level playing field. I'm not holding my breath, though...

Also, I'd like to know why Geldof and co aren't protesting about poverty in latin America. Doesn't it have the same radical chic that Africa possesses?

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non of the stars i know about have protested about the starving in either south or central america to my knowledge,probably cos a lot of hard drugs come out of their,wouldn't want to threaten the supply,ohh some geek - think it was sting had a winge about the amazon rain forest and thats about it- trees not people.

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LOL. Hadn't thought of that!:)

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one person dies every three seconds,20 are born every two thank you to you!