But...while you guys are having fun on here...spare a though for those less privaliged in the third world!!!...especially the children!!!!!

How lucky we are!!!sorry...but its touched me!!!!! and yes, not ashamed to say but had tears in my eyes today via the video footage etc etc!!!

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here! here! you have a great venue over there in London! :]

go hyde park... still waiting for pink floyd.. clicks every 3 seconds.....click click click.... puts every thing into its righful place... 20 yrs ago at live aid.... was having a student party in cambridge England.. sterophonics must of been my best performance today so far and r.e.m and keane.. oh dont forget the brillaint snow petrol....mmmmmmmm bono go man.. showing my age.. but waves the flag for the killers... think its threatening the self righteous and materalism in investments..well lets hope our children dont have to view africa in a musuem as a race that once exsisted.. hugssssss

sory meant to say grand children in my case

But what a pity the only way that we can think of to remove the uncomfortable sight of people dieing from our TV screens is to entangle the poor nations in neo colonialism disguised as debt relief, supported by a bunch of pop stars wearing wrist bands made by child labour in Asia.

totally agree onslow and equipment shiped from the worst country in the world on human rights issues.... click click only canon can winks...:)

surly it'll help... whatever gets the message out... music is our international language... :]

yeah....flows right thru my veins!!!!!

just saw the Who, now Pink Floyd.. sigh

just hyper burst over the who and mannnnnnnnnnnnnnn pink floyd cindy... hahah sorry pink floyd areeeee my heros.. hugssssssssss... oh could thnk those guys could pull off a performance like that after years od legal agruments and court case of copy rights... totally awesome.. yep huge smile of glee here.... :)...)))))))

oh who could think.. sentance construction :|

i agree in glee!... they sounded & looked awesome!! ;]

yep...made my night...FLoyd, excelllent flawless performance..legends!...just a shame all the politics behind this world event!

something tells me the younger generations are not going to put up with the flaws of the this current world how it stands today....wars faminie poverty in justice... may take a hand full of pop stars but the message is provoking.. lets hope world leaders realise.. sighes.

now England says hello sunday morning... and hello saturday in philly.... watching it live from the states.. lets hope dear eric.. is having a ball with his cam...:)

There were some amazing performances, disregard my cynical beliefs, one cannot deny it has raised awareness of the subject. If just a few of those people go onto look at the real underlieing issues then it has done some good.

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Indeed music is a sort of international language and over history has addressed many personal, public and world wide issues. Though aid of this sort is often called band aid it is something far better than nothing! Since many people appear to be deaf, blind and mute to serious issues, I am glad to believe at least a few will be given hearing, insight and a voice of awareness because of events like this. In my thought, there is more public notice value in the concert event than the self-proclaimed Hollywood type voices can raise from their various and sometimes oddly uninformed tirades. Every little bit of bootstrap tugging is needed to awake those with know-how, the connections and recognized authority to effect some positives. I recall a very shocked woman who had traveled to the historical slave coast of Africa only to learn of thousands of years of slave trade history and to learn that this was not a guilt laid only on white westerners of the 17th to 19th centuries. She was enlightened. Where economic slave trade exists I see little hope for easy solution. Where sheer lack of ability and resources exist, there is little easy hope. Deep, deep causes hiding from public exposure and kept behind curtains are part of the problems world wide. That is the sum of my knowledge and perhaps more than I find comfortable. : ) Great cause! I imagine great concerts! We would love to have been part of it in one of the venues. Couldnt make it. Yikes! Sorry for being so long on this one. The thread hit a thread.

My favorite performance was by Sarah McLaughlan and Josh Groban, but then again, Josh can do anything and I swoon.