Live 8

This memo is right off the official Live 8 DVD website and explains what will be on the US/Canadian version. The memo refers to it as the Canadian DVD but Canada and US are both region 1 for DVD so it's the same DVD set. I hope this clears up any confusion.THE GREATEST SHOWS ON EARTH TO BE RELEASED ON DVDEMI Are Proud To Announce The DVD Release Of Live 8 On Tuesday, November 8, 2005 In CanadaOn November 8 the biggest live event DVD project of its kind will be released. The Live 8 DVD brings together performances from the amazing series of concerts which took place around the world on July 2, 2005.Live 8 One Day One Concert One WorldThe 4-disc set contains three discs of live footage taken from the Live 8 shows staged in London and Philadelphia alongside key highlights from the seven other events staged across the world. Every artist who performed at Londons Hyde Park and Philadelphias Museum Of Art appear on the DVD, many of them with their full sets.It was 20 years ago today The Live 8 DVD opens with U2 and Paul McCartneys crowd-rousing rendition of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and also features Pink Floyds historical reunion, Robbie Williamss show-stopping performance and Madonnas breathtakingly energetic set. Younger artists such as Snow Patrol, The Killers and Joss Stone comfortably intertwine with rock n roll legends such as The Who and Sting. One-off duets come from Paul McCartney and George Michael, Stevie Wonder and Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Elton John and Pete Doherty and Coldplay and Richard Ashcroft.Disc 3 closes as the London concert closed on July 2 with the stars of Live 8 Hyde Park taking to the stage for the stunning Hey Jude finale.Philadelphia also hosted incredible performances from amazing superstars such as Destinys Child, Bon Jovi, Black Eyed Peas, Sarah McLachlan with Josh Groban and soul legend Stevie Wonder.Also threaded through the UK and US acts are performances from artists who appeared at the Live 8 concerts in the Toronto area, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Johannesburg and Moscow. Tracks from Green Day, Brian Wilson and Roxy Music in Berlin and Neil Young, Bryan Adams and Jet in Toronto are included along with the Pet Shop Boys in Moscow, Duran Duran in Rome, Vusi Mahlasela in Johannesburg and Placebo and Muse in Paris.Disc 4 features exclusive extras including a never-before-seen backstage documentary filmed at Hyde Park, Pink Floyds Live 8 reunion rehearsal, more acts from Live 8s global concerts including McFly and Bjork in Tokyo, films by The Who and Travis and a contribution from Ricky Gervais.The special features section will offer highlights from Edinburghs Final Push concert at Murrayfield on July 6 which will include performances from James Brown, Travis and The Proclaimers.Single disc sets for the Canadian, French, German and Italian Live 8 concerts have also been produced. These will focus further on each countrys concert and will be available globally.I hope this will be the biggest selling DVD of all time. It deserves to be. More importantly perhaps, it should be, for it will help us achieve our goal of changing the lives of the extreme poor for the better and making our generation the one that helped end the disgrace of poverty, says Live 8 organiser Sir Bob Geldof.Money raised from sales of the Live 8 DVD will go to the Band Aid Trust for the relief of hunger and poverty in Africa.Live 8 was held on 2 July 2005. Nine simultaneous, free concerts starring the cream of international rock and pop artists were staged in London, Paris, Toronto, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, Moscow, Johannesburg and Philadelphia. The concerts acted as a starting point for The Long Walk To Justice in support of the Make Poverty History and Global Call To Action campaigns and was timed to focus attention on the critical decisions made by the G8 summit four days later.Youre such a lovely audience, wed like to take you home with us sang Bono. Now the million-strong live audience and 5 billion viewers around the world can take Live 8 home with them

Let's face it. Nobody has the kind of acceptance of so many different styles or genres of music that they would sit and watch every song on every disc from this set. We all have our favorites, but this is where the DVD format has the advantage over older video cassette tapes. The ability to instantly access the things we like and to effortlessly skip the parts that offer nothing to us makes a diverse compilation like this work, and it could only work on DVD. Towards that end, this is a great set. The navigation is very intuitive. You can search by artist, click on that chosen singer or group and watch all of the performances from them. At less than 10 bucks per disc, even while skipping over the parts I don't wish to hear, this is a very good price.The quality of the audio and video is first class for this set. Unlike the 1985 concert where home video was still an infant technology, you can tell that this show was conceived from the beginning as something to be rendered as clear, bright and pristine in a package that really documents the day. The 5.1 sound is as good as any from my large collection of concert DVDs. The visual image is very sharp and contrasty, even on my old analog T.V. These discs lack for nothing as far as the technical rendering is concerned.Truth be told, I was planning on buying this DVD on the day of the concert just to have a video of that terrific Pink Floyd set, and yes, it sounds and looks better than I remember it from the actual live broadcast. I feel I got my money's worth from just that group (the performance and the behind the scenes rehearsal footage and interviews), and there is so much more to see and hear. I'm happy!

I caught a glimpse of the Pink Floyd reunion on a big screen at Costco, well when I saw Roger Waters on stage with Dave Gilmour etc... I figured it must be a clip from the Live 8 show last summer. I originally purchased it for the purpose of witnessing this special event, but there is so much more to this disc set than just the Floyd reunion.Will Smith gives an example of how fast innocent people in Africa alone are dying from hunger. I could tell my 8 year old understood the gravity of the situation as she watched patiently. Bob Geldof replayed a clip of what he witnessed 20 years earlier in Africa that inspired him to take action. He also introduced a victim/survivor from that particular famine that accompanied Madonna on the first song of her set "Like A Prayer". But perhaps the most inspiring and touching set was Annie Lennox and her tribute to the victims of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. I was fully expecting to see adults during this sequence but when the majority of them were innocent children, I had to pull my kids close to me and thank god for their health. Believing in humanitarian causes does not make you a liberal.I am only vaguely aware of several of the performers in this video. Several of them I'd never even heard of. However, they were all great. One of my favorite sets was The Pet Shop Boys in Moscow. I watched this show pretty much from beginning to end. The way they time it, you'd think you were watching one show when in actuality you are watching 6 to 7 shows over the course of nearly 10 hours. This is well worth the $30.00 Amazon is asking. You won't be disappointed!

Bought this just for The Who and ultimately The Floyd, together for 1 last iime.In that they closed the concert gives the feeling that ' what was before was good, now watch and listen to how the best do it.Guitar playing at its best, drumming as it should be, singing by people who have a distinctive sound, not these 2 a penny groups now who sound just like all the others!!??MAkes you proud to be over 50 letting your peers show the youth of today ... This is music and this is how you perform a concert (no miming etc)

Nothing to actively dislike. To look back on a genuine turning point in music's role in the world, this is second to only ONE, the original Live Aid, exactly why I wanted this.

Worth buying just for Pink Floyd's performance. Plenty of great music on 4 DVDs from the UK and EU performances but those from the US stage are a bit underwhelming.

This is a important piece of music history! Not only because it's purpose, but also for the compilation of so many different bands in one worldwide concert. To me the best part is when Pink Floyd get together and play "Comfortably Numb". It's just perfect!!!

this was for a friend and they was very happy :)