Live 8

[Axls Locomotive]

am i the only one who thought sgt peppers was poor? bono looked less than enthusiastic singing it and mccartney was losing his voice as always

[elikovich]

anyone know where i can get a video of the pink floyd performance?

thanks,
ed

[AdZ]

Pink Floyd was.. amazing. Just. Wow.

I didn't think the opening was as good as it could have been it sounded... too bland compared to the rest of the stuff going on.

I thought VR opening with Do it For the Kids.. wasn't that great and it sounded just a mess, but they seemed to pull it together.. Set me Free would have been a better choice than Slither though.

The show didn't close very well... it was a bit of a disappointment.

[Is he struggling?]

anyone know where i can get a video of the pink floyd performance?

thanks,
ed

Each performance from each concert will be on available on demand the through AOL website for the next few weeks.

[D]

http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/video?query=bon+jovi+video+live+8

click on "Have A Nice Day"

watch bon jovi's new song, this is one of their best songs in years

I think even the haters will like this

give it a shot.

[Walapino]

besides pink floyd and VR does anyone have any DVD or AVI files of the other rocking bands? Im mostly looking for U2, The Who, Deep Purple, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Audioslave, The Cure.

[Axls Locomotive]

 LONDON (Reuters) - They came out of charity. They left with booming record sales.

The galaxy of rock stars who took part in Live 8 concerts on Saturday to help beat the curse of poverty have seen their discs fly off the shelves in music stores -- a case of bank balances as well as consciences winning out.

Pete Doherty
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Live 8's main cause, making poverty history, also benefitted though, after the London performance of Beatles classic "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was released over the Internet with all proceeds going to the campaign.

According to HMV, one of the country's main record retailers with 200 stores nationwide, Pink Floyd's "Echoes" album posted a staggering 1,343 percent increase in sales on Sunday compared with the same day a week ago.

Pink Floyd
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The band re-formed for the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park, where they joined pop legends Paul McCartney, Madonna, U2 and Elton John among others in front of 200,000 people.

"Even allowing for the relative nature of this exercise ... this snapshot still shows that the Live 8 concert is having a marked effect on sales of featured artist recordings," said Gennaro Castaldo, spokesman for the HMV chain.

Annie Lennox
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He stressed that the increase for Pink Floyd and other acts appearing in Hyde Park was partly due to the low number of records sold on Sunday, June 26. Total sales of "Echoes" on Sunday, July 3, the day after Live 8, were approaching 1,000.

Next came The Who's "Then & Now", with an increase of 863 percent, Annie Lennox's "Eurythmics Greatest Hits" (500 percent) and Dido's "Life For Rent" (412 percent).

Pete Townshend
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ONLINE RELEASE

Coldplay's "X&Y", which has stormed the charts in Britain and the United States, registered one of the smallest increases out of the London Live 8 acts at just three percent.

But according to HMV, the band still sold the highest number of records at more than 2,800.

The only Live 8 performer to have clocked a drop in sales was Pete Doherty. His former group the Libertines saw sales of their "Up the Bracket" album drop by 35 percent.

Doherty's performance was singled out by the media as one of the worst of the nine-hour Hyde Park music marathon.

The Mirror tabloid called his duet with Elton John "shambolic", and people at the gig said he struggled with the words of "Children of the Revolution" and looked unsteady on his feet.

Record label Universal Music Group released online "Sgt. Pepper", sung by McCartney and U2 at the opening of the Hyde Park gig, within minutes of the performance.

A spokesman for Universal said it was already the number one track on the iTunes online music service in Britain, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Belgium. No outright sales figures were available on Monday. Proceeds go to Live 8.

The closing London Live 8 song, another Beatles classic "Hey Jude", has also been put online.

[Dot]

U2  was great, Coldplay was ok, their duet with Ashcroft annoyed the hell out of me. Pink Floyd was a delight to see and listen. As for Velvet Revolver, man has Slash lost his edge? I mean, He still has this great Rock N?Roll attitude and image but his playing wasn?t all that exciting.

[Jamie]

Seen Motley on AOL music finally. They were excellent but my highlight of the whole day is still Pink Floyd.

[Dot]

Seeing Tommy Lee with M?tley was so cool!. The guys in Pink Floyd were really enjoying themselves, specially Roger Waters, But I doubt it will lead to other things like an album or something. Audioslave: I only saw Like A Stone and Chris?voice was awful, did he have a cold or something..he was having a really tough time singing. Joss Stone: 

[Malcolm]

Seeing Tommy Lee with M?tley was so cool!. The guys in Pink Floyd were really enjoying themselves, specially Roger Waters, But I doubt it will lead to other things like an album or something. Audioslave: I only saw Like A Stone and Chris?voice was awful, did he have a cold or something..he was having a really tough time singing. Joss Stone: 

Motley Crue kicked huge ass..They were the only band that got an Encore chant lol..Dr.Feelgood hit home big time..so many crowd surfers..it was sweet all thge dirt started flying up and it was cool...Hopefully Plyd reunion will at least lead to a new tour and I really wanan see Audioslaves performance..They opened with Dosent Remind Me and i love that song

[Malcolm]

READ WHAT PINK FLOYD SAY..THIS IS FUCKING COOL MAN

Less than a day after the worldwide Live 8 shows, bootleg DVDs of the concerts were already being offered on eBay. By Tuesday (July 5), the auction company had begun removing the illegal discs from the site following complaints from the British Phonographic Industry, according to a Reuters report. "The unauthorized copies of Live 8 DVDs we have been told about have been taken down, because the sale of fake items is not permitted on eBay.co.uk," the site said in a statement. A spokesman for Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof said called the people who posted the sales "cretins and scum."

The auction site had already run afoul of Geldof before the shows, when he labeled eBay an "electronic pimp" after users offered tickets to the free London show for sale for hundreds of dollars The discs, some of which appeared on the site within 24 hours of the end of Saturday's 10 free concerts, drew bids of up to $31 each and featured footage from both the Philadelphia and London shows, according to Reuters. Especially angered by the sales was record company EMI, which paid millions for the rights to release the official event DVD.

"There are too many people out there who believe music is for stealing, regardless of the wishes of artists and the people who invest in them," said David Martin, director of anti-piracy at the British Phonographic Industry. "Sadly we are not at all surprised by this incident."
A number of the major acts who performed at the shows have seen their album sales spike in England in the days following the event. According to one of Britain's main music retailers, HMV, the sales of Pink Floyd's album Echoes shot up 1,343 percent on Sunday compared to the week before. The group, which re-formed with bass player Roger Waters for the event has agreed to give all profits from sales in the wake of Live 8 over to charity and have encouraged other artists and record labels to do the same.

"Though the main objective has been to raise consciousness and put pressure on the G8 leaders, I will not profit from the concert," guitarist David Gilmour said. "If other artists feel like donating their extra royalties to charity, perhaps then the record companies could be persuaded to make a similar gesture and that would be a bonus. This is money that should be used to save lives." Though the spike was partly accounted for by the previous week's low numbers, an HMV spokesperson told Reuters that the sales of nearly 1,000 copies of Echoes was still impressive.

Other albums that had robust bumps included the Who's Then & Now (up 863 percent), the Annie Lennox-fronted Eurythmics Greatest Hits (500 percent) and Dido's Life For Rent (412 percent). Coldplay notched one of the smallest sales increases of the London acts (3%), but still sold the most records with more than 2,800 copies.

Another brisk seller was the London show's opening number, the collaboration between U2 and Paul McCartney on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." The song was released to legal download services within minutes of its performance and quickly hit #1 on the iTunes charts in Britain, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Belgium, according to a report by The Associated Press. The proceeds from the sales will benefit Live 8.

On Monday, the London show's finale ? an all-star sing-along to "Hey Jude" led by McCartney ? was also offered for download. No sales figures were available at press time.

[Dot]

Seeing Tommy Lee with M?tley was so cool!. The guys in Pink Floyd were really enjoying themselves, specially Roger Waters, But I doubt it will lead to other things like an album or something. Audioslave: I only saw Like A Stone and Chris?voice was awful, did he have a cold or something..he was having a really tough time singing. Joss Stone:?

Motley Crue kicked huge ass..They were the only band that got an Encore chant lol..Dr.Feelgood hit home big time..so many crowd surfers..it was sweet all thge dirt started flying up and it was cool...Hopefully Plyd reunion will at least lead to a new tour and I really wanan see Audioslaves performance..They opened with Dosent Remind Me and i love that song

According to Nikki Sixx they are writing an album as they take their show on the road. A new M?tley album!!! Can?t wait.

[MadmanDan]

VR were fuckin excellent...fall to pieces was class

People are gonna say that I'm just another obsessed Axl fan, but pleeeease, Weiland made VR suck, as allways. His voice, stage presence and charisma are completly mediocre!!!

Slash, on the other hand, made his magic again...the man is incredible in every way

[Doc Emmett Brown]

anyone know where i can get a video of the pink floyd performance?

thanks,
ed

Each performance from each concert will be on available on demand the through AOL website for the next few weeks.

yeah, I've just watched Comfortably Numb three times in a row now     Try this link:

http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/video?invocationType=topsearchbox.video&aolplayable=&sort=&view=&query=pink+floyd+video+live+8&category=&duration=

[Dr. Blutarsky]

http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/video?query=bon+jovi+video+live+8

click on "Have A Nice Day"

watch bon jovi's new song, this is one of their best songs in years

I think even the haters will like this

give it a shot.

Not a huge Jovi fan, but certainly not a hater either.

I give them credit playing a new song rather than digging into the more well known catalog for all 3 songs (ex. Motley Crue)

[Malcolm]

I was suprised motley played Home Sweet Home..I excopected Shout or Girls

[D]

I am an enormous Motley fan as most of u know but reading some fan reviews I got to wondering what Performance u all were watching?

I was embarrassed watching the Crue, Vince was absolutely horrible in my opinion, he looks fat and bloated again, he skipped and mumbled the lyrics, his voice was too high and squeaky.

Just didnt think they sounded good at all.

[Malcolm]

I am an enormous Motley fan as most of u know but reading some fan reviews I got to wondering what Performance u all were watching?

I was embarrassed watching the Crue, Vince was absolutely horrible in my opinion, he looks fat and bloated again, he skipped and mumbled the lyrics, his voice was too high and squeaky.

Just didnt think they sounded good at all.

I cant agree with you totally man..I give you one point on tv he did look a little bigger..but man live..I was 5 rows back dead centre..He looked and sounded awsome..thewya ll did..As a matter of a fact all the tv performances were horrible but amazing live

[Eazy E]

So what kind of impact do you think this will have?  The Live 8 website claims an estimated 3 billion people watched the concerts... That has to be more than half of the world that was actually capable of watching the show.

Will it make a big difference?  Or will there be a bunch of promises that never get followed up on?