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 ...

Records tumbled as an estimated worldwide audience of 2 billion tuned in Saturday (July 2) to Bob Geldof's historic Live 8. AOL says its exclusive Internet feed of the multi-concert event broke all… ...

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 ...

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 ...

Five years ago, AOL's webcast of the Live 8 concerts marked a watershed moment for the live streaming of concert footage online. Billboard takes a look at three key developments since then that… By ...

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 ...

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 ...

A four-disc DVD set of the nine international concerts held on July 2nd as part of Live 8, an initiative organized by Bob Geldof to pressure the G8 to address extreme poverty in Africa, will be ...

Live Aid lied to us. It would be 20 years from that legendary transatlantic charity knees-up before an all-star Bob Geldof production would rock all over the world. Fifty thousand people watched the ...