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The event, in addition to promoting the two Canongate Books publications, raised money for UK charity The Reading Agency. [5] Letters Live has also been hosted at the Hay Festival. [6] [7] In 2016, a Letters Live event took place in the Calais Jungle, where actors including Jude Law and Matt Berry read letters written by refugees. [2]
Kings Place concert hall terrace. Kings Place is a building in London's King's Cross area, providing music and visual arts venues combined with seven floors of office space. It has housed the editorial offices of The Guardian newspaper since December 2008 and is the former headquarters of Network Rail and CGI.
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian and changed its name in 1959, [5] followed by a move to London. Along with its sister papers, The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. [6]
The band's bassist John Taylor said that Global Citizen Live was the closest thing to Live Aid in the age of streaming, and would not be possible without Live Aid and Band Aid creating the precedent. [2] Global Citizen estimated that tens of thousands of people would attend the in-person events, and millions would watch the live broadcasts.
Just For One Day is a jukebox musical with a book by John O'Farrell.Told through a modern-day perspective, Just For One Day retells the events leading up to Live Aid, the 1985 benefit concert organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise awareness and funds for the famine in Ethiopia.
Guardian News and Media's publications/websites, including the UK parent version and Guardian US, have a left of centre or broadly socially liberal political stance. [8] The publication has also criticized their parent for publishing opinions "...that we believe promoted transphobic viewpoints, including some of the same assertions about gender that US politicians are citing in their push to ...
Guardian Media Group exists to support the core purpose of its owner, Scott Trust Limited: to secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity, [28] but in the 2011/12 year the group lost £75.6 million, [29] and for the three years up to June 2012, the paper itself lost £100,000 a day - leading The Economist's ...
The plans for the Live Earth concerts were announced at a media event in Los Angeles on 15 February 2007 by Al Gore, Kevin Wall and other celebrities. [5] The inspiration for promoting the cause using benefit concerts comes from many similar events over the past 25 years including the 1985 Live Aid concerts and the 2005 Live 8 concerts and it was to be the longest show ever to be recorded in ...