Live 8 (TV 2005)

Directors:

Bruce Gowers, Nick Hopkin,

Writers:

Bob Geldof (idea), David Wild

Stars:

Bob Geldof, Articolo 31, 4Peace Ensemble

1 win.

Cast

Credited cast:
Bob Geldof	...	Himself
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Articolo 31	...	Themselves
4Peace Ensemble	...	Themselves - Johannesburg
A-Ha	...	Themselves
Bryan Adams	...	Himself
Romeo Antonio	...	Himself
Ainhoa Arbizu	...	Herself
Jann Arden	...	Herself
Tina Arena	...	Herself
Richard Ashcroft	...	Himself
Audioslave	...	Themselves - Berlin
Dan Aykroyd	...	Himself
Bap	...	Themselves - Berlin
Amel Bent	...	Himself
Louis Bertignac	...	Himself

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

peace | charity | digit in title | tv special | live broadcast | 

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Taglines:

The long walk to justice

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Genres:

Documentary | Music

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site The Live 8 List

Country:

UK

Language:

English French German Italian Spanish Zulu Russian Japanese

Release Date:

2 July 2005 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, Yvelines, France

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

480 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Was the first global broadcast to be formatted in the HD TV standard.

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Connections

Edited into Live 8: A Worldwide Concert Event Presented by Nokia (2005)

User Reviews

Monumental

I won't say this is worthy of a higher rating than "7" because many of the artists/performers, etc., were not to my liking. That said, a lot of them were great.

Pink Floyd made a historic return to the stage and stole the show. Roger's voice may not be at its best, but in terms of pure presence, they were ace! Velvet Revolver, sadly, was less impressive; the first live performance of theirs that I had seen, and I was fairly underwhelmed. Slash looked bloated and bored, Scott Weiland's vocals were fair at best, and their song selection was questionable (the opening line of "Do It for the Kids" contains a strong expletive, and the entire point of the song is to encourage sex). I'm not anti-swearing/sex, but the idea of them performing this show in front of millions of families across the nation was a bit disappointing. I think they could have instead played something more relevant and melodic.

To be entirely honest I couldn't care less about most of the other performers. REM was pretty dull and all the solo artists were grating MTV generation no-talent hacks.

Pretty colossal production. I was only 20 miles from Hyde Park, and looking back in retrospect I wish I had gone down to see the concert if only to catch a glimpse of what may possibly be the last Pink Floyd performance ever.