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posted by Tom Ryan @ 4:42 PM
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Did anybody actually see Live8? I remember the original LiveAid was a huge cultural phenomenom and you couldn't escape. Remember the anticipation of seeing Led Zeppelin get back together? Remember Phil Collins playing in London, flying on the concorde and then playing here in the US? We actually taped the whole thing.
But Live8? I forgot it was on and nobody was talking about it. It was a complete non-event here on the West coast.
Geoff,
Your comments indicate exactly what I feared... This time around, I must agree that it just didn't seem to have the same buzz as it did 20 years ago. I thought that maybe it was just me - I'm getting older, I'm less 'plugged in' to the zeitgeist - whatever. The attendance at the concerts was fairly huge - more than the original "Live-Aid" - but that was because those shows were held in stadiums. This year,they were free festival-style events.
If you're interested, the original "Live-Aid" performances from July 1985 are available on a 4-DVD set, or on a 'best-of' single DVD, and I review it on americanhitnetwork.com
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