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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bob Geldof, who 20 years ago put together the famine-relief concerts of Live Aid -- the biggest musical event in history -- yesterday announced that five enormous, free concerts would be held July 2 ...

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 ...

Bruised by harsh criticism and soft ratings, MTV executives Wednesday acknowledged missteps in their broadcast of last weekend’s Live 8 concerts and hinted that they might retool the program and show ...

Radiohead have turned down the chance to appear at London's Live 8 gig because of non-work preoccupations. Singer Thom Yorke has previously campaigned on many of the same issues raised by the campaign ...