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On 2 July 2005, a
Live 8Live 8 was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa. They were timed to precede the G8 Conference and summit held at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland from 6-8 July 2005; they also coincided with the 20th anniversary of Live Aid...
concert was held at the
Circus MaximusThe Circus Maximus is an ancient Roman chariot racing stadium and mass entertainment venue located in Rome. Situated in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, it was the first and largest Chariot Racing Stadium in ancient Rome...
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RomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated municipality , with over 2.7 million residents in , while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.46 million. The metropolitan area of Rome is estimated by OECD to have a population of 3.7 million...
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ItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
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The event is also referred to as
"Live 8 Rome" or
"Live 8 Italy"
Lineup
Past
Live AidLive Aid was a multi-venue rock music concert held on . The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. Billed as the 'global jukebox', the event was held simultaneously in Wembley Stadium, London and JFK Stadium, Philadelphia...
performers are listed with an asterisk (*). In order of appearance:
- Zucchero
Adelmo Fornaciari , more commonly known by his stage name Zucchero Fornaciari, is an Italian rock singer. His music is largely inspired by gospel, blues and rock music, and alternates between ballads and more rhythmic boogie-like pieces.-Personal life:Adelmo Fornaciari was born in Reggio Emilia ...
¹ - "Everybody's Gotta Learn","Overdose d'amore", "Diavolo in me" (R 14:00)
- Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English rock band from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States. Since the 1980s they have placed 14 in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart and 21 in the...
* - "(Reach Up for the) Sunrise" Sunrise" is a song by Duran Duran, the first single from the album Astronaut and their 31st single overall. It was the first single since "A View to a Kill" in 1985 to feature all five of the original members of the band.-Music video:...
", "Ordinary World"Ordinary World" is the first single from Duran Duran's self-titled 1993 album, better known as The Wedding Album. The song peaked at No. 3 in the American charts and No. 6 in the British charts...
", "Save a Prayer"Save a Prayer" is the sixth single by Duran Duran, released on 9 August, 1982.The soft, seductive ballad was the third single from the band's second album Rio...
", "The Wild Boys"The Wild Boys" is the twelfth single by Duran Duran, released in October 1984.The song was the only studio track on the live album Arena, and was produced by Nile Rodgers, who had previously remixed the single "The Reflex"...
" (R 14:14)
- Elisa - "Luce (Tramonti a Nord Est)", "Una poesia anche per te" (R 14:39)
- Negrita - "Una Maera Di Sonio", "Storia Di Mary", "Rotolando Verso Sud", "Cambio", (R 14:53)
- Negramaro
Negramaro is an Italian rock band formed in 1999 and successful since 2005. Their name stems from Negroamaro, a wine produced in their native region, Salento....
- "Mentre Tutto Scorre", "Nuvole E Lenzuola", "Estate" (R 15:15)
- Jessica Simpson
Jessica Ann Simpson is an American singer, actress, and television personality who rose to fame in the late 1990s. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has three gold and two multi-platinum RIAA-certified albums. Simpson starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality...
- "I Think I'm In Love With You"I Think I'm in Love with You" is a song written and produced by Cory Rooney and Dan Shea for Jessica Simpson's debut album Sweet Kisses . It contains a sample of singer-songwriter John Cougar's "Jack and Diane" and was released as the album's third and final single in summer 2000...
", "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"These Boots Are Made for Walkin" is a pop song composed by Lee Hazlewood and first recorded by Nancy Sinatra. It was released in February 1966 and hit #1 in the United States and United Kingdom Pop charts. Subsequently, many cover versions of the song have been released in a range of styles: pop,...
", "Angels"
- Tim McGraw
Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts, leading him to achieve total album sales in excess of 40 million units. He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of former baseball player...
- "Drugs or Jesus"Drugs or Jesus" is a song recorded by country music singer Tim McGraw. It is the third single from his 2004 album Live Like You Were Dying. It peaked at #14, thus becoming his first single since 1993's "Two Steppin' Mind" to miss the top ten...
", "Live Like You Were Dying"Live Like You Were Dying" is a song by American country music artist Tim McGraw which appears on his Live Like You Were Dying album. It reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard country music charts, and held that position for a total of seven weeks...
" (R 15:29)
- Faith Hill
Faith Hill is an American country singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw...
- "Mississippi Girl"Mississippi Girl" is a 2005 song recorded by country music singer Faith Hill and the lead single from her album Fireflies. A Number One single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in late 2005, it was her first Number One on the country music charts since 2000's "The Way You Love Me".-About...
", "Breathe"Breathe" is a country song by Faith Hill, released as the first single from the album of the same name. The song was extremely successful in the United States, and became Hill's signature song.- Chart performance :...
", "Piece of My Heart"Piece of My Heart" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns and originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967. The song came to greater mainstream attention when Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company covered the song in 1968 on their album Cheap Thrills and had a hit with it...
" (R 15:43)
- Planet Funk
Planet Funk is an Italian electronic dance musical ensemble.Members are Sergio Della Monica, Alex Neri, Domenico GG Canu, Marco Baroni, and Alessandro Sommella , in addition to a series of guest singers in collaboration, like Dan Black, Sally Doherty, Raiz and John Graham.Their first single, "Chase...
- "Ultraviolet Boys", "Stop Me", "The Switch" (R 16:09)
- Le Vibrazioni
Le Vibrazioni is an Italian rock and pop band formed in Milan in 1999 that is still active. Its albums were issued by BMG.They made their breakthrough in 2003 with their debut single Dedicato a te, which went platinum....
- "Sono Più Sereno", "Vieni Da Me", "Aspettando" (R 16:23)
- Irene Grandi
-Biography:Irene Grandi was born in Florence.She debuted in the Sanremo Music Festival in the category New Proposed with "Fuori", in 1994, which was later won by Andrea Bocelli, who was also debuting the same year....
- "Per fare l'amore", "Santissima Janis" (R 16:36)
- Tiromancino
Tiromancino is an Italian pop group founded in 1989. It was started by Federico Zampaglione and has released 9 albums. Their music is a subtle blend of folk and electronica...
- "Imparare dal vento", "Nessuna certezza", "È necessario" (R 16:50)
- Max Pezzali
Massimo "Max" Pezzali is well known by Italians to have been the voice, and main song writer of the music pop group "883". He released his first solo album in 2004 , "Il Mondo Insieme A Te"...
- "La dura legge del gol", "Come mai", "Hanno ucciso l'Uomo Ragno" (R 17:06)
- Alex Britti
Alessandro "Alex" Britti is an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.-Biography:At the age of 17 he started his first band playing blues at various clubs in Rome...
- "Gelido", "7000 caffè" (R 17:30)
- Cesare Cremonini
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- "Padre madre", "50 Special" (R 17:45)
- Nek
Filippo Neviani, also known as Nek , is a popular contemporary Italian singer–songwriter.Some of his hits include "Laura non c'è" , which became a major hit in Europe and Latin America in 1997, being one of the most listened songs of that year, and "Almeno stavolta".Nek records and performs in both...
- "Almeno stavolta", "Se io non avessi Te", "Lascia che io sia" (R 17:54)
- Piero Pelù
Piero Pelù is an Italian rock singer and songwriter, best known for his work with the famous Italian rock band Litfiba...
- "Io ci sarò", "Bomba boomerang", "Fela Kuti Improv" (R 18:08)
- Jane Alexander (Interstitial) (R 18:23)
- Biagio Antonacci
Biagio Antonacci is an Italian cantautore, or asinger-songwriter, from Milan.-Early life:Biagio Antonacci was born in Milan and was raised in one of its suburbs . Despite learning how to play the drums at a young age, he had to study in order to obtain a diploma in surveying...
- "Immagina", "Liberatemi", "Se io se lei", "Non ci facciamo compagnia" (R 18:27)
- Fiorella Mannoia
-The Beginning:Fiorella Mannoia's father Luigi was an Italian film stuntman, and Fiorella, her brother Maurizio and sister Patrizia began work in this area as children. Fiorella Mannoia's first film role as stuntwoman was at the age of 13 in the film Non cantare, spara!...
- "Sally", "Clandestino"Clandestino" is the second single and the title track from Manu Chao's first album, Clandestino. It is perhaps, along with "Bongo Bong" and "Me Gustas Tú", his most well known song. The lyrics of the song are sung in Spanish and deal with the issue of immigration: "I wrote it about the border...
", "Mio fratello che guardi il mondo" (R 18:43)
- Ligabue
Luciano Ligabue , more commonly known as Ligabue or Liga, is an Italian rock singer-songwriter, film director and writer.-Biography:...
- "Non è tempo per noi", "Urlando contro Il cielo", "Il mio nome è mai più" (with JovanottiJovanotti is an Italian singer-songwriter and rapper. Jovanotti, whose real name is Lorenzo Cherubini, was born in Rome on 27 September 1966. His family is from Cortona, in the Province of Arezzo, Tuscany. On 6 September 2008 he married Francesca Valiani at Cortona, in the Church of Santa Maria...
and Piero PelùPiero Pelù is an Italian rock singer and songwriter, best known for his work with the famous Italian rock band Litfiba...
) (R 18:47)
- Jovanotti
Jovanotti is an Italian singer-songwriter and rapper. Jovanotti, whose real name is Lorenzo Cherubini, was born in Rome on 27 September 1966. His family is from Cortona, in the Province of Arezzo, Tuscany. On 6 September 2008 he married Francesca Valiani at Cortona, in the Church of Santa Maria...
- "Una tribù che balla", "L'ombelico del mondo" (R 19:00)
- Laura Pausini
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- "Un'emergenza d'amore", "Come se non fosse stato mai amore", "Il Mondo Che Vorrei", "Tra Te E Il Mare" (R 19:13)
- Claudio Baglioni
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- "Le mani e l'anima", "Strada facendo", "La vita è adesso", "Avrai" (R 19:27)
- Paola Cortellesi - (presenter) (R 19:43)
- Mayor of Lampedusa - (Interstitial) (R 19:45)
- Renato Zero
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- "Cercami", "Nei giardini che nessuno sa", "I migliori anni della nostra vita" (R 19:49)
- Antonello Venditti
Antonello Venditti is an Italian singer-songwriter who became famous in the 1970s for the social themes of his songs.-Biography:...
- "Che fantastica stora è la vita", "Ci vorrebbe un amico", "Roma capoccia" (R 20:09)
- Noa
Achinoam Nini , also known by her professional name, Noa, is a leading Israeli international concert and recording artist.-Career:...
- "Beauty Of That", "Eye In The Sky" (R 20:27)
- Povia
Giuseppe Povìa is an Italian pop singer.- Biography :Born in Milan, he began teaching himself guitar at the age of 14. He taught himself how to play music by ear, and by the time he was 20, began to compose music. In 1999, he enrolled in the Academy of Sanremo, where he met Giancarlo Bigazzi...
- "I Bambini fanno oh", "Fiori" (R 20:42)
- Velvet - "Il mondo è fuori", "Search And Destroy" (R 20:53 )
- Pagani & African Drum Collective
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- "Heanda", "Stuck Is Stuck" (R 21:07)
- Articolo 31
Articolo 31 is a popular band in Milan, Italy, melding hip hop, funk, pop and traditional Italian musical forms. They are one of the most popular Italian rock/hip hop groups.-Band history:...
(R 21:24)
- Gemelli Diversi
-Biography:Gemelli Diversi formed in 1997 in Milan when two Italian rap crews, La Cricca and Rima Nel Cuore, merged. Their first single was 1998's "Un Attimo Ancora", rapped over a sample of Pooh's "Dammi Solo un Minuto". The song and the accompanying album were hits in Italy, and the group...
(R 21:38)
- Pino Daniele
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(R 21:52)
- Francesco De Gregori
Francesco De Gregori is an Italian singer-songwriter and maker of organic olive oil called "Le Palombe". De Gregori is popularly known as "Il Principe Poeta" , the nickname refers to the elegance of his lyrics.-1970s:...
(R 22:06)
¹ = Also performing at the
Paris concertOn 2 July 2005, a Live 8 concert was held at the Palais de Versailles, Paris, France.The event is also referred to as "Live 8 Paris" or "Live 8 France"...
on July 2, 2005.