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However, AOL provided a full webcast of the entire show. After the criticism from viewers, both VH1 and MTV showed highlights of the Live 8 concerts on 9 July 2005 for 5 hours each without commercial interruption. In Australia, the concert was broadcast on FOX8 (live) and the Nine Network (highlights).
Live 8 [a] was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and 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.
On 2 July 2005 Pink Floyd performed at the London Live 8 concert with Roger Waters rejoining David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright. It was the quartet's first performance together in over 24 years, having not performed in that configuration since a 17 June 1981 gig at Earls Court in London as part of a charitable fundraiser.
Live 8 concerts and line-ups; 2 July 2005; Hyde Park, London ... This is a list of artists who performed at Live 8. Park Place, Barrie ... Pink Floyd; R.E.M. Razorlight;
This was the last tour of Pink Floyd with Roger Waters, before his departure in 1985. 17 June 1981 was the last concert of the tour, and the band's last full concert with Waters (he joined them again on 2 July 2005 at Live 8).
Pink Floyd. David Gilmour – guitar, lead and backing vocals, pedal steel guitar on "Shine on You Crazy Diamond," and "The Great Gig in the Sky," Synthi AKS on “On the Run,” [2] Hammond organ on "The Great Gig in the Sky" Roger Waters – bass, lead and backing vocals, additional keyboards on "Echoes" [3]
The main Live 8 concert in Hyde Park on 2 July 2005. Hyde Park in London, England, has been a venue for rock music concerts since the late 1960s. The music management company Blackhill Enterprises held the first rock concert there on 29 June 1968, attended by 15,000 people. On the bill were Pink Floyd, Roy Harper and Jethro Tull.
The final concert of the tour on 29 October 1994 turned out to be the final full-length Pink Floyd performance, and the last time Pink Floyd played live before their one-off 18-minute reunion with Roger Waters at Live 8 on 2 July 2005, their first live appearance as a quartet in 24 years since The Wall Tour (1980–1981), as well as their last ...